Two topics to cover today. First is streaming. To encourage me to tackle commissions in a timely fashion, I am going to set up a regular weekly streaming session where I will be drawing the commissions I have currently booked. That time will be Tuesday at 3pm Eastern Time, And you can find me at https://picarto.tv/raevix

I encourage you to attend, especially if you have booked a commission, because I will try to give priority to those who can attend stream.

Also: If I have booked a commission for you, and you cannot make this tuesday time, please contact me and I will attempt to arrange for you a private streaming session at a time that is more convenient for you.

And on to the other topic: Dissonance has been on hiatus for a while now, mostly because I've found myself unable to muster the ambition to draw it. I've been writing for it at least every week, but when it comes down to putting pen to paper I find myself... lacking the motivation. And I think I may have figured out why at long last.

The problem with Dissonance is... I wish I could change things that are far too late to change. Since I started drawing Dissonance, there have been many changes to my planned story both minor and major, and the comic kind of ground to a halt when I realised I was not happy with the ending to the story anymore. I rewrote almost the entire second half of the comic to try to solve this problem, but it left a lot of lingering story threads in what I had already drawn that no longer worked, and worst yet a major character would basically only be appearing in the second half of the comic. Because of this I've constantly felt myself wishing I could go back and rewrite some of what I already wrote to fit the new ending better and... I can't do that. It would be too jarring and confusing for the readers.

This means that for the time being... I'm going to discontinue Dissonance.

I may pick it up again in the future, if I can find a way to reconcile my issues with the plot, but I don't know when that will be. I've learned a lot about writing and drawing a webcomic from Dissonance, and I don't consider this a failure. I am disappointed, as I'm sure many of you are too, but I'm going to take what I've learned and start work on the project I had always planned after Dissonance's conclusion. Once I have my commissions cleaned up, I will begin work on a story I have been working on called Recursion.

I will also be using the tuesday stream to work on Recursion following the completion of this commission batch. I will not likely be working on full comics just yet, but start with character designs and practice some on-theme art to make sure I know what I'm getting into. I'm excited to start work on it, and I hope you enjoy the new concept. I apologize to all the Dissonance fans out there. But when it comes down to it, I know you'll enjoy Recursion updates more than Dissonance non-updates.