Welcome to JAWC v2.0, now with 24% more emo! 1% more than last time!

It's gonna be coming up to a year in March that I've been drawing JAWC... since it's origins as a money making scheme on The Jab Archives... doesn't feel like a year has gone by... but eh, this is the last update for the month of February, so I think it's appropriate to mention that next month will be the anniversary...

I don't even know what the hell I was thinking making it a donation scheme, where people donated to sway where the comic would go given the options for that page... it was a once a week deal too... while this updates more frequently... still, it was prolly the reason why I named it "Just Another Web Comic" seeing that giving it a title would make it seem stupid... why would a comic with an actual name be altered by the people?... it wouldn't make much sense...

Still I remember starting the comic thinking that I'd be able to get some cash for AnthroCon... help on travel costs... and the whole thing tanked... I mean, it failed beautifully... if there was an award for failure... I would've been nominated and been a frontrunner for the podium... geez.. it's somewhat laughable how pathetic my efforts were... hmm...

Regardless of how much it failed, I continued with JAWC... albeit the chapter arcs were really short and I rushed alot of things in my effort to carry the story along... I forgot alot of fundamentals when making a story, and that was character development... and I'm just now starting to give personality to the characters... I remember that I originally wanted the whole Angelina/Jocelyn fight scene to be about three pages... THREE PAGES!?... feh.. the hell was wrong with me... now it's dragging out and I think it's really fun to draw the panels...

I remember my favourite class in college was storyboarding... it was alot of fun, and this comic has given me the opportunity to work on my storyboarding skills, working on angles, mid-range and longshots, dutch angles and close-ups... I remember working on my senior project and my teacher said to me that one day I'll write my own script... meanwhile at the time I never gave it a thought that I'd even bother to attempt something like that... and here I am now, writing my script and drawing out the storyboards to my script, with the characters developing slowly but surely... it's pretty cool to have him be right... cause it's my passion to one day work storyboards for some movie company...

I plan to make that happen one day... it hasn't been the 5 years since I graduated college, there's still hope for me to measure up to my teachers aspirations... I don't want to look back and regret my path, but be glad upon the route taken and look at my present as something I earned through hard work and ambition...

Anyhow, I hope that this next year of JAWC will bring forth more of my ability to draw, so that when I do go out and try for my dreams, I'll be better prepared for the field, and that I'll enjoy that as much as I've been enjoying this... anyhow, that's all for this week.. take easy all ^^;

- Tiki Man