Sometimes you just gotta put a pin in it.. > updating you about my coding journey
Accepting that things come and go
It has been around 3 months that I really worked on this website and on my game project. As I mentioned in an earlier blogpost this was mainly due to personal circumstances. But now I am feeling ready to get back into shape, so as to speak. I have been neglecting parts of my life that brought me joy over the last year: boxing, drawing and coding…
As I am slowly coming back around and start dipping my toes in those waters I realize that I am no longer so invested in the projects I left hanging mid-air and really crave some new things to work on. So this post is to update you on what I have worked on up until the moment I decided to leave the old dress-up game project on hold and also stepped away from hosting my own local AI. Only in this way do I feel the room to start enjoying working on this website again and enjoy drawing again.
I actually moved away from digitizing my world, and started craving doing more ’tangible’ projects. So I now have an actual paper planner again that I use, notebooks to scribble my thoughts in and plan stuff out. And no longer really use the ‘2nd Brain’ system I spent so much time on building in Obsidian…
Instead of feeling guilty about my interests in these things and not pursuing my current interests, I decided to accept that these interests come and go. Who knows, perhaps in another few months I will be back working on my coding journey with full force!
The dress-up game up until now
I was working hard on creating the main assets to use in the game. I had totally forgotten my earlier statement that I would use placeholder assets and fisrt focus on learning Godot! I think my brain is just a bit fried from all the stuff happening lately that I needed some more relaxing distractions, such as drawing. So I started with creating a background image. This was a huge undertaking for me, as I never really draw interiors, and the background is supposed to the the interior of Chloe’s bedroom. I first opened up SIMS 4 to make a basic layout, made a screenshot, and then drew over it.
the different steps: sketch > values > lines > flat colours
Then I started working the character and the differents hairstyles and clothing options as separate images.
the final sketch result (for now)
You can see the full version of this illustration here . As you can see, I did not completely finish this. But I am moving on to create other things for now!