Animating SVG Paths of a Sketch via CSS

Recently I've been exploring CodePen as a way to quickly experiment with HTML, CSS, and Javascript in a way that's fun and convenient.

My latest experiment was to learn more about animating SVG paths. The details of what I learned are in the code comments of this Codepen.

Here's the original sketch I converted to SVG using Cocopotrace and Adobe Illustrator:

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And the Codepen experiment:

See the Pen SVG Sketch CSS Animation by Rob Stenzinger (@RobStenzinger) on CodePen.