Sadly, I am seriously considering getting to a decent stopping point (probably the end of the first chapter) and then putting Bey & Emerald on indefinite hiatus. The problem is that the storyline is slow and talky and it doesn't really lend itself to being "punched up". There are so many scenes that basically boil down to some talking heads... it encourages me to do lazy pics instead of challenging ones.

If I do (and it's hardly certain yet), I won't be getting out of doing webcomics. It's been too good of an art exercise to just quit. Instead, I'll be trying a different project... probably something much shorter and more self-contained, hopefully with more action. Ideally I'd like to be able to finish the entire thing in less than a year. I'm not sure what story I'd tell yet; I'm still brainstorming ideas.

Sadly, If I'm really only going to be good for a page every other week, then I should probably be doing something that's much faster moving. Part of the problem is that I don't think that I, personally, would have continued to read Bey & Emerald myself, if I were just discovering it. It's just too darned slow for what you get and I don't have the free time to fix that. Still, it's been excellent practice and I have learned an enormous amount from it.