Well, it’s 4PM where I am, so I really should take a break and get some rest.  Not as far as long as I would like to be, I wasted a good hour doing art that I ended hating, scrapped it, and went back and redid everytihng.  Looks MUCH better, but took 5 hours to fully animate the player character.  Have code that plays the animation so far, as well as a lot of content to work with.

As a note, Paint.NET is probably not the right tool for making animations.