When making an animated drop cap, I didn't have any ideas that immediately stood out to me as something I wanted to do. Because I was unsure, I tried to explore widely varied ideas in my preliminary sketches below. I eventually chose to base the final piece on a sketch of a landscape in which every part of the scene came together to form my first initial because I liked the idea of it not being immediately recognizable as a letter.
And here's the final product:
