Firstly, if this is taking forever for your computer to load, I apologize. The frames kind of have to be large in order for you to see them properly, and there are quite a few of them. But hey, at least I uploaded them as individual frames instead of one enormous file.
What follows here is a short, very basic manga I drew over the course of about a week's worth of evenings. My vocabulary at this point was/is kind of limited, by which I mean very limited, but I knew I had a good grasp of hiragana and wanted to show off the writing I could do. I also wanted to show off the volume of language that I did know. And I can see now, looking at it, several places where I messed up - using おおき instead of おおきい, for example, but overall it was a pretty solid effort on my part.
I enjoyed being able to describe people, places, and things more fully than I could, say, in my earlier writing samples, and I made an effort to include some distinctive Japanese phrases appropriate to the situation - いただきます before a meal, for example, and the fillers あのお and ええと. I was also pleased that the conversation didn't seem awfully unnatural, which represents a big leap forward from my earlier work, and I was able to use a little bit of katakana, which has helped with character recognition.
So long story short, I'm proud of this little comic, and I think it represents very well my skills at the time I completed it. I do think, though, that I've learned quite a bit of new vocabulary that would have contributed very well to this conversation - either to fill out parts that (to me, at least) seem a little ambiguous, or as replacements for other, less accurate words.
