Koala Town

Geez, it’s been a full year since anything’s been posted.  That’s kind of sucky.  Anyway, I had a huuuge post about what’s been going on and what’s gonna happen but looking at the last few posts where I did that and nothing DID happen I won’t make that mistake again and get ahead of myself.  Here’s what I’m working on:

1.  Part of the reason why the site stopped was because I had started going to SCAD or was getting ready to and it was a HUGE workload. I wanted to add more comics and get a schedule back but I just couldn’t do it (and I’m surprised Eric didn’t yell at me for it). Lately though I’ve been drawing loads more and really want to keep Koala Town and the characters alive.  I love them and every time I try to think up a comic to do that isn’t them I just immediately come back to it.

2.  I wanted to do a bigger, more involved, action/adventure oriented story but I think for my level of abilities/discipline I just can’t make that kind of commitment.  So in the future I do plan to start doing more comic strips, most likely in the vein of the original versions where they were 3-4 panels with more involved ones being longer as I come up with them.  I really love writing the bigger stories and imagining how things will be and look but I guess in the end it’s just way too overwhelming.  Also, my panel layouts really blow and don’t flow well at all.

3.  I’ve been working more intensely on learning figure drawing and just trying to improve overall in the skills department.  I think in my future approaches to how I draw and how the characters will look you’ll probably see my time at SCAD reflected in this.  I hope it looks better and I really hope people like it.

So that’s what my current thoughts are.  I want to have done at least ONE new Koala Town strip (probably start in black and white though at first), with all the unnecessary flash stripped away, and just work on the meat of being funny and trying to have good, well-written characters.  Oh, and well-drawn.  Well-drawn characters are also important.

Ok, I’ll stop rambling now.

Be back on or around New Year’s I’m gonna say.