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Script Done! Now I’m Drawing the Comic

Posted on May 19, 2025 by flyingweaselman

The script and story for The Forester is pretty much in its final form. Now I’m finally producing more pages!

Rabbit furry. Strathmore, the fursona of AJ Larson. He is giving a cartoonishly stupid smile at the viewer, like he's trying to be way too nice to get something from you. The character is on a blue background with a screen tone gradient. He is excited to tell you the script is done.

A lotta people asked me why Ardyn and Kyra wanna kill each other. Up to that point, I realized I didn’t know why. When I read the script again, I decided that I needed to make it obvious to the audience why Ardyn is so emotional from the get go. That lead me down my own rabbit hole of brainstorming. It involved questions about what they were like as kids, what their parents meant to them, and the events that lead up to their separation.

It was worth it! I gotta say that the story is far more emotional than it was before. It was lacking that oomph it needed to take it over the edge. But then some complications happened and I had to rewrite a bunch of the ending. I had to rethink what the central themes of the story were. I started writing this story because I was really tired of other works bringing dead characters back to life because they were popular. At the time, I was thinking about Dragon Ball Super. It brought characters back to life all the time and they had brought Frieza back for the Tournament of Power arc. Yeah, eventually I warmed up to the decision, but I felt that it was cheap at the time.

Now the story has evolved into one that briefly explores how we all should find the right motivation to do what’s important. It’s a more compelling theme than “dead characters need to stay dead” I think. Haha!

Anyway, I’m really happy that production is in full swing! Here’s the comic’s thumbnails for the next episode. Subscribe to my newsletter to get updates as they happen. You can also follow me on Bluesky.

Thumbnails for the webcomic The Forester. It is based off the script that AJ Larson wrote. The drawings are not detailed, but they provide the story blueprint to draw the final artwork.

Been Awhile

Posted on April 18, 2025 by flyingweaselman

I’m resuming full production of The Forester! Yay!

Procrastination’s a bitch innit? I had several failed goals seriously take the wind out of my sails last year. Extended periods of unemployment, rejections, and low-self esteem. Thankfully, I have really supportive friends and family to keep me going. That, and the thought of having more friends come into my life who discovered me through my artwork. I’m a sensitive person and forming connections with people is something I crave. That is, if I can get outta my head and talk to people. Haha!

I’m just a little guy, people!

Happy to say that I’ve made a roadmap for the next year. My big, big goal is to have a pitch bible on a new project ready for finding a literary agent. When I have a pitch and The Forester completed, I will have a compelling case for potential agents to represent me. I will also post more regularly here as a journal to log my progress and hopefully give y’all some inspiration in your own creative works. But yeah, I’m resuming full production of The Forester!

I was reading through the comic and found some things that I’m gonna add to the original script. There’s been a lot of helpful feedback from people around me on what they wanna see in the story. That and I’m always seeing ways I wanna improve. Art, paneling, lettering, pacing. Ya know, all of the everything! It was daunting for me to tackle this project again, but with some planning and breaking down the project into some smaller steps, I feel ready to dive into the deep end again.

Thanks for reading and checking in on me! Sign up with your email so you will be notified when I post new episodes of The Forester as well as when I write more blog posts! You can also find me on Bluesky, @flyingweaselman

Kyra, a catgirl, is reclining on a sofa in a warmly lit cottage room. She is reading a book and has her feet in the air.

Hiatus Announcement

Posted on August 9, 2024 by flyingweaselman

Hello again! I learned a lot this month about making comics and my own limits. I’ve been releasing episodes of The Forester the same week that I complete them instead of having a buffer of several episodes like a sane person would. That was really hectic! haha!

The application season for Spider Forest is also over and my application was denied for a couple of good reasons. The first was my comic didn’t have a complete first chapter. In other words, there isn’t enough of the comic finished to let them have a clear idea of where it’s going. The second reason was my update schedule is too inconsistent currently.

I was SUPER eager to launch this thing when I had a few episodes ready and I thought that it was going to be fewer episodes than it’s on track for.

So, anyway, I want to take a hiatus from releases so that I can get a buffer built up.

I know! Unfortunately for you, it means you’ll have to wait for more of the comic. But don’t worry! I’ll keep you posted on art I complete as well as WIPs occasionally. This is a good thing! The Forester will increase in quality an I’ll increase in sanity! haha!

At this moment, I don’t know when regular comic updates will start up again. I’ll need to get a feel, again, on how quickly I can plan and draw these out.

Until then!

Next Episode Will be On 8/10

Posted on July 30, 2024 by flyingweaselman

I’ll be visiting my Mom for her birthday this week. So the next update will be next Saturday. I was gonna try hard to get you a short episode so that you have something to consume, but I ended up getting sick too! Kind of a bummer, but your regularly scheduled Forester episode will be on August 10th!

Thanks for reading! I’m happy that you are enjoying my work!

Episode 11 Will Release Tomorrow

Posted on July 21, 2024 by flyingweaselman

Hello everyone! I promise that episode 11 is still coming out this week, it’s just happening tomorrow.

I had a severe case of burnout this week because I was trying to do both the comic AND Art Fight at the same time. I gave myself an unrealistic goal which caused me to have a mountainous workload. When you’ve got ADHD, you tend to have an all-or-nothing mindset. And I was giving myself much more stress than is needed by trying too hard to do too much.

I’ve taken measures to make burnout less of a thing by visualizing the work I need to do in the form of a whiteboard. I dedicated each day of the week to a specific task and I’ll only do that task each day. If I draw more, then it’s because I wanted to do that for fun, instead of thinking of it as work.

Comics are hard, people! haha!

For today, enjoy a WIP sketch from this weeks episode.

You Can Now Subscribe!

Posted on July 11, 2024 by flyingweaselman

I’ve figured out how to set up email subscriptions for the website! It’s now easier to know when I send updates.

You can even set up which categories you can see. If you wanna see all my blog posts, or just want to get an email sent when a new episode is up, the options are there!