Progress of sorts

Okay, I've been working on getting my drawing skills of late by drawing the main characters and drawing some locales.
So in other words I'm preparing for Sandhurst Academy to start hopefully sometime in Jabuary, I'll be creating a buffer, so I won't have horribly interrupted updates and I should hopefully be working by then so I'll have cash and some spare time away from worrying about Tafe to start improving the website.
I've got 2 1/2 weeks to go before Tafe ends, and like last year, I left a lot of work till the last minute...yes I never learn lessons...
Anywho I've begun plotting Sandhurst Academy, I'm finally heading towards a main character design I'm happy with, and then I need to work on the other character designs as well, and for a large cast as this one will soon have it'll take a bit of effort.
I'm planning maybe 28 chapters, with about 20 pages per chapter, sounds a lot, but I'm not planning on doing it in colour, and I'm planning on a consistant update flow, with having the weeks pages done on the weekend or something. I'm not going reveal to much about the plot but it will be containing humour, adult themes, action, maybe some romance, drama and will be geared towards people 15 and above at the very least.
Anywho at the moment I'm just doing some practise, some refinement of the setting and research(of sorts) into how other manga go about handling themes, by research I mean occcaisionally missing a night of sleep to finish a particularily good manga.

Manga I'm currently reading
Naruto
Bleach
Vagabond
Addicted to Curry
Ichigo 100%
Family Compo(its very strange)
Angel Heart
Claymore

Manga I really enjoyed
Mx0(ended suddenly though)
Pretty Face(also ended suddenly, same author to)
Inuyasha
Suzuka
II's
IO
Unbalance x Unbalance(actually a manwha)

I've gone off webcomics almost altogether at the moment, guess its cause I'm more interested in how professionals go about a lot of story themes at the moment, rather then the slow progression webcomics have, where they can spend a year on a single story arc, I've also gone of games to a degree, I spend most of my time reading manga, thinking about Sandhurst Academy and how to avoid doing homework...yeah not the best plan when I've got only two weeks left...

Anywho Sayonara Folks!