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I've planned to go on hiatus for a long while now, and wrote about it before on both CF and SJ (including the 1st anniversary post on SJ, but sadly the newSJ got rid of the "News" section, so it all got lost)
So, to recap: "Flow..." is going on hiatus, so that I can work on Chapter 2 and finish as many pages as I can, before I'll start updating it again.
I did the same with Chapter 1 before, having few months worth of updates done in advance. However, by the end of 2018, and for the most of 2019, I was suffering from a plethora of health problems, which made working on the comic very difficult - if not outright impossible at times - with the most severe time being the first and second quarter of 2019. Eventually I've run out of the finished pages, and was forced to draw them "in real time", so if something sudden had happened, I had to skip a weekly update.
In the end, I think I did pretty well regardless, skipping only 3 or so updates in 2019. I've also developed a very consistent working system, that would eventually let me complete more pages per week, and thankfully, I've slowly started accumulating them again.
However this whole setup was still very taxing on my general condition, so, to lessen the strain on my health, and also try to prevent the situation from happening again, I decided to take a longer break from publishing the webcomic.
I still will be working hard during the hiatus, so technically nothing changes for me, but not having to overexert myself and rush finishing the page for a weekly update will allow some breathing space during the slower days.
There are also things regarding working on the webcomic, that I want to reconsider and experiment with, possibly readjust my priorities too. Chapter 1 gave me a ton of very valuable experience, and my current goal is to find out how can I complete more pages faster. This might include experimenting with style in search of something that's more time-efficient, but also visually appealing, or further improving my drawing techniques. It's a bit hard to do during an ongoing publication, since experimenting spontaniously can disrupt the steadiness and predictability of the work-flow and slow it down. I also want to -depending on whether the tone of the narrative allows it- try to implement some of my "derpy" artstyle (which some of you know from my bonus illustrations/incentives) into the main comic. Anyway, we will see how it goes!
All that said, even with all those precautions, there's still a risk of me not being able to resume the webcomic in April 2020. Despite taking care of myself the best I can, and getting better since summer, my general condition still isn't the best. Just recently I have lost about 2,5 weeks due to rather persistent eye infection. All I could do at the time was reuploading my pages to Comic Fury, managing to spend 20 minutes max before the screen at a time. Thank heavens for the dark mode, but drawing was out of the question during that time.
Of course this is something I want to avoid at all costs. I'm telling it just in case - and if that happens, obviously I will make proper announcements beforehand, to let you all know :) For now fingers crossed the current plan will work out!
Once the webcomic resumes, it will go back to its original schedule, which is one page per week.
Thank you everyone for all your support, Happy New Year... and see you next time! <3
