03-21-2016, 02:51 AM
I guess I should do an update on the secondary goals I made in the first post. I'm reading almost every day, and I've definitely gotten out of my habit of defaulting to drawing whenever I have freetime, so that's one success. For my sketchbook, instead of writing something on every page, I've gotten into a rhythm of alternating between writing a few pages and drawing, but I'll take that as a success as well. As for swimming, I stopped going after a while, because there just didn't seem to be any time for it, so that's the main thing I want to work on getting fixed right now.
As for Nano, at least the art side is going as well as I could have hoped. I've made a lot of progress with figuring out how to make clean sprites with an alpha layer and create at least some likeness, and making backgrounds at least readable without investing a lot of time into them has also gotten easier with practice. I'm not nearly as confident in the writing though, and there aren't as many resources for those times when I'm not sure how to solve a problem with pacing, mood, etc.
some sprites
some backgrounds
a textbox
As for Nano, at least the art side is going as well as I could have hoped. I've made a lot of progress with figuring out how to make clean sprites with an alpha layer and create at least some likeness, and making backgrounds at least readable without investing a lot of time into them has also gotten easier with practice. I'm not nearly as confident in the writing though, and there aren't as many resources for those times when I'm not sure how to solve a problem with pacing, mood, etc.
some sprites
some backgrounds
a textbox