In my experience, and even after you've been taught how to do it "right", half of animation, and often the most lively pieces, are "technique unchecked", ad hoc, wildstyling. trial and error - goofing around with patientce to find out if you have the knack.

Thank you, I have been thinking about implementing something like that lately, but I should learn how to animate sprites properly first '^^

Could be a cool game character for sure. Looks like he's hiding some outburst up his sleeve.