APRIL FOOL'S DAY POST #1: Work in Progress

Working on ELMER has been a very rewarding experience. It was also very educational for me because I learned a few things about myself. One, I learned that I love drawing chickens, but I also learned that I had an embarrassing weakness drawing people. Perhaps one of the reasons I was successful with Elmer was that I didn't have to draw people so much. Attempting to work on Amazing Doctor Rizal has now made it painfully apparent that it's a weakness that I might never fully overcome.

It's made me seriously consider drawing less humans and more animals in my future work. It is why I've set aside Amazing Doctor Rizal, at least for the moment, to focus on where my strengths lie, and that is drawing chickens. In fact, I've already begun working on what may well be a sequel to Elmer.

It's not a direct sequel by any means. I'd like to think that the Elmer universe is a huge one, and that in volume one I only depicted the lives of one family of chickens. There are millions of chickens in Elmer's world. In fact, even in our real world, chickens outnumber people three to one. That's quite a number. I may well make the sequel a kind of anthology where each story focuses on specific but different sets of chickens across the world and how they deal with living with humans as new human beings themselves.

I'm already enjoying myself very much and I guess that's what's important. I don't have a title yet, but that will most likely come later after I've worked on the stories much further.

More info on this soon.