Well, here we are. Today is precisely five years from when I first started publishing my fan art on the internet. For the past year, I've been planning to celebrate the occasion with an archive of all my published art, including a few surprises, and a few other things as well and... I've got nothing.
As some of you know, I recently upgraded to a new computer. Usually this is a good thing, and it still is, but for the past two months it's caused me more trouble than relief. Without going into details, let's just say that the people who put it together had not paid enough attention on some of their configurations. In the end, I only managed to get one pic out before I had to return the PC to be repaired. I did try to solve the problem myself for the first two weeks but eventually I ran out of time and motivation... a good thing too, since it turned out the solution would've been out of my reach anyway.
Thankfully, I was able to keep up with all the latest developments via my portable. While I was able to produce a few doodles with it, I did not have Photoshop installed on it. Not that it would've mattered much since it would've been too slow to work with those humongous resolutions I favour. Besides, if anything good came out of this one, it's that I was able to concentrate on a couple of difficult university assignments much better than I probably would've if I had been able to go with my original plans and draw like a maniac the entire February. I was also able to brainstorm with Toonspew on our upcoming project which in turn resulted in a surprise collaboration with TheSharkragon on a quick Maddie doodle we designed – this would likely not exist if it weren't for the special circumstances I found myself in a few weeks ago.
But yeah. There's no art archive for you to download. No special Maddie pic I've occasionally mentioned. Nothing. All I can give you at this point is this journal entry. I wish I was able to write something glorious about the past five years but quite honestly, I'm not even in the mood. Still, all's not lost and despite the past month not going at all as planned, I'm hopeful about the future.
Here's what I'm going to do. Starting next week, I will return to work on my remaining commissions for Sniper Tomcat and fully finish them. After that, I will get back to working on the archive, the special celebratory pic and everything else I was going to have ready for today. The bright side is that I do not have a specific deadline for this, so I don't have to panic if I run into an art block and can't get something done. I will hope to have everything out before the spring is over. In the end, you'll get what I wanted to give you anyway, just later than I anticipated.
Let's postpone the celebration, shall we?
Feel free to congratulate me, though, I won't stop you :p
