For this animation, I wanted to make a character doing some simple punches/kicks, as if they were in a character select screen in a fighting game. I know that because of this, the character won't be interacting anything and will instead look like they're showing off. I first started out by simply drawing a rough sketch of each main pose of the character, while also thinking about how each body part would move.
For the kick, I kept getting reminded of this character pose of Min Min from the Nintendo game "ARMS," so I used this as a reference, noticing the direction the arms moved and the direction her upper body twisted in relation to the kick.
And here's the final animation I created from what I researched, I didn't want to make it look exactly like Min Min's but still look like a character who is confident with each movement.