improve

I feel like this is one of my goals that just never gets any love…

My class started last night! It looks like it’ll be fun. Our first assignment was to make a “poster” with those old letterpress scratch off letters. I didn’t quite know what to make, but one of my neighbors had a font of icons for sports and leisure activities, so I made a bad night on dancing with the stars…

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I haven’t done anything serious towards this project, so I signed up for a design class that starts in September. Should be fun!

Everything is in our hands, so just want and do this :) We just need to realize this.

I took on a freelance project that involves designing actual things, so I’m going to let myself off the hook on this goal for the next few weeks. I have pushed myself to come up with more variations than the traditional three and I’ve spent much more time and been more careful about the design process than usual. It’s also nice to have more time. At work, I often get a day or two to create something, so to have a project that I work on a few hours a day over a longer period is a nice change of pace. Of course, I want my free time back…

how to formulate this goal and I made up all sorts of long, complicated names, but I think this is a good one. Short, simple, open…

My goal here, at the moment, is to improve my self-confidence as a designer. I have one of those hyphen work titles: “animator designer”, and while I feel like I can animate anything, like that’s a known quantity, I don’t always feel like I can design anything and everything. Designing is just more subtle and frustrating an art, and the setbacks and lousy projects get to me more than my victories.

What I need to do is practice more. At work, I’m the low girl on the totem pole and I rarely get fancy or interesting projects. I rarely have to do much explaining or many styleframes, so when I do, it’s a bit foreign. There are two things I want to do: I want to make sets of styleframes [but only styleframes! I should be able to get my point across without animating everything] and I want to play more with text and type. I think a good exercise for both is to take existing movies and books and pretend like someone is making them into TV shows. I also like the idea of illustrating quotes or poem fragments through storyboards.

That’s the idea for now.

This goal is beginning to take proper direction. I know I want to improve, but I’ve been thinking about how specifically. There are several areas which i’m going to break down.

Driving – I want to improve my driving so that I can sit my Restricted Test. I’m eligible for it soon and want to have it definitely by the end of either June or July which gives me time to practice, have lessons, be a more confident driver, and also get it before my brother is eligible for his learners in August.

Work – I’ve been working more now that i’m older. The most hours I did in the holidays in a one week period was 34 hours. Pretty good for casual work. :)

Study – I need to get into a routine where i’m studying every day after school. I need to work this in around work and chores.

Mood-Wise – I also want to improve my mood (not that it’s that bad :)) There are several things I have in mind but I won’t go into them here.

Internet – Stop using it during computer class :)

Text Less – hhmm yeah I text a bit much, not compulsively and not over the top but for my lifestyle and considering my busy schedule I really should text less. :)

Weight-Lifting – I’m going to gradually work up and lift more.

my constant, main life goal

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at last capitalize on experience and stop doing the same thing over and over again

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