the wheel turns again (it's march 🌿🪻💐)

It's nearly spring! 

And with that comes me continuing to think about my recent goals, how they're getting on and how I can make them work. 

Art improvement was the main one. Despite doing art reasonably often these days, I've felt a bit shaky in my art ability, especially in my job, which feels competitive all the time, at least in my head (saying more about myself here, although I'm general the wider games industry is competitive especially in art and design disciplines).

To be honest that's more of a mindset thing but making my art practice more consistent isn't going to hurt!

O is asleep so I just did some planning, mapping out my free time and then seeing where would be good to have art focus time. There's a little gap after work 3x a week and another block of time on a Monday morning I can use. This focus time only equates to about 2.5 hr a week but that's because I have left a lot of 'flexible' time in since life admin, chores, illness etc. often appear and get in the way.

I don't want to be too strict and then just fail. 

Next step is probably to plan out a project to work on as I think that will help me have some art focus. I was planning to make some prototypes in a game engine with art involved too so that might be the plan. Plus some sketching to warm up each time would be good.