As it's been for the past three years or so, the art archive project (a compilation of all my art plus some bonus content) I've been meaning to complete has constantly gotten delayed for one reason or another. I dropped some hints last year that I was going to go ahead and complete the damn thing to coincide my fifth anniversary as a cartoon smut fan artist but as it so happened my brand new computer decided to start malfunctioning and effectively ruined an entire month for me and thus killed any chances I would've had to finalize and release the archive.
Recently, though, I've slowly come to accept that the archive would've probably been delayed anyway as I don't think I was looking at the damn thing very realistically. Even though I reorganized the way I categorize my art in my blog back in 2011, that doesn't mean they're similarly organized on my hard disk. Besides rearranging my works on my own machine, I also wish to create some new content for the archive as an incentive for people to download it – I know, it's kind of an ass thing to do but at least I'm not charging anything for it. The new content would include both hi-res versions of my old stuff as well as possibly "Special Edition" versions of certain images I feel could just use little adjustments to make them better (obviously, these will not replace the original versions but will rather be additions). Then there's of course "never-before-seen" content, which isn't actually more than a handful of images, and I've also toyed around finishing certain pics that have been in development hell since 2010/2011. As a cherry on top, I have an urge to draw something I haven't drawn before as well as create A Very Special Maddie Fenton picture that features a her in a situation you've seen countless times but never drawn by me... or, at least, never drawn by me beyond hinting it.
Anyway, as you've probably realized by now, all this requires more than a mere month to pull off, especially if you're not someone like Fern who can whip up a complex image in about two or three hours (it never ceases to amaze me how fast he is and how good the results are considering how little time he spends on an image). Also, the summer job I landed this year has occupied the vast majority of my free time. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have a job and no free time during the summer than limp through it and end up with negative savings, but... yeah, you know.
I should be back to full speed by fall. I still have that Sniper Tomcat order to finish and while the progress has been a slow one, it has been progress nonetheless. After the pic is done, I'll get to work with the archive. I will not expect it to be finished in one month, although I do hope to be able to restrain myself from going overboard with the whole thing. As tempting as it is to hold out until March 3rd 2014, having a release date be in about six months from the starting date may once again end up simply causing me to abandon the damn thing yet again as I suddenly have less and less interest in finishing the archive and instead focus on other things (which, BTW, is a very common problem with most fan artists).
In conclusion, I will not give you a specific date for the archive's release. The official statement is when it's done with the addition of hopefully before the end of the year.
TL;DR: I explain the brief history of the art archive project and its numerous delays, tease the project's content yet again, explain that my job takes all my time during the summer which is why everything is lagging behind schedule and state that the archive will hopefully be done before 2014
