I've had great aspirations for an online comic/graphic novel featuring my characters, but not sure I have the skills to pull it off. I was thrilled with a color drawing I did 2 years ago, but now as I look at it I can see where the linework can use improvement, and it would look a lot better with shading. Still, this would be good enough for me to pass quality-wise, but would have to move a lot faster to get multiple frame comics done in a reasonable time. So, I don't know. I really need practice and I say I want to draw but yet never do, so I wonder about what I really want and enjoy. I could start writing this story in text today and do a fantastic job with it, but I'd much rather present it as a visual comic because I personally like reading comics far more than reading plain text. I've never been much of a reader in that regard, I just don't enjoy it. But comics are great!

I think what I'll do over the next year is put out a bunch of short comic strips playing around with my characters in completely different roles and settings, unrelated to my planned story, to see how it goes. If I can do that, then there is hope for my graphic novel. If not, then I guess I'll just have to write it in text or not do it all, which will be a disappointment. I won't be commissioning others to do all that comic artwork for me... because money issues aside, if I don't do it myself, is it really mine?