Hello everyone,

Just chirping out that I am finally working on parts of an art and animation portfolio, yes I will be releasing things as they are ready and some wips of the process eventually. It's time I stopped sitting around on my skills and compile things at last and break into 2D animation.

No matter how busy life gets, don't give up, and stop procrastinating.

S.Fox

As some may have noticed I have started creating art again at a somewhat decent pace. Going forward that is the hope and my comics will be getting underway once more.
About a week or so ago I discovered a sketching method that lets me get started without needing to really ink the entire image, as well as be less frustrated through the entire process. One odd side effect this has had is I am able to focus longer and with less stress than I have suffered through since my health crisis in 2014.

The art must flow, and my brain is thanking me for it. You can expect higher quality and faster art creation now, but there will still be moments when the process slows due to work starting back up on the horizon on occasion. Thank you all for sticking with me through these many slow painful years and I hope everyone has a better day than the last.

When the fog lifts and the path seems rough, turn on the light and make your own path.

~S.Tail/S.Fox

Good morning everyone,

I'm opening for 5 commissions as of today, updated prices and payment options can be found here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54961575/

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Quick little announcement thing 🐦

I am still figuring things out, but due to recent health discoveries from some medical tests please either refer to me as she/her. I know some might be confused or mad, but I'm still me ❤️ just now I'm a lady bluejay!

10 days and still coughing, but at least it's only a cough now. The first half of that was just terrible with fever, only able to eat soup, throat that bled and wanted to kill me. It wasn't covid but here we are 10 days into it and still haven't gotten to celebrate my bday. Thanks nature. I guess at least you gave me somekind of gift on that day. Just wanted to let you all know why the falison page hasn't been posted yet.

S.Fox

Because I want to finish my first novel in the Falison universe this month I am going to hold off some on the comic development. I still plan to get at least 2 pages out this month and there will be a WIP posted sometime today on Patreon of the progress towards finishing page 20. Tomorrow, June 4th, is my birthday and the reason for all of this acceleration in Falison things is because I have a lot planned. With turning 27 there is a lot that I really need to iron out before I turn 100. I know it's a long ways off but Falison is a very long and dense set of timelines that need to be crafted, colored, edited, etc. ^^ I hope everyone is doing alright. Also I decided that with my comic I would like to release pages a week early over on Patreon as a reward of thanks for those that support me there.


June 4th Falison pg 20
Public release: June 11th
Sketch or illistration 2nd week
Pinup 3rd week
Landscape thing 4th week
June 25 Falison pg 21
Public release: July 2nd

S.Fox

Quick update! Patreon has passed what I make in an hour already and I am already well on the way to deliver new Falison art and comics within the next week ^^ that is all. Just extremely excited with how everything is falling into place.

Falison page 20 should be done on or before my bday, June 4th. Love you all! And thanks for following me still.

S.Fox

At long last the wait is over! My patreon was given the go-ahead to launch ^^ if you would like to support my science fiction endeavers feel free to pic one of the three tiers. They all come with goodies!
https://www.patreon.com/sporefox

With any hope or luck this will help me start moving away from retail work so heavily for income and I can finally dedicate the time I need towards my creative works.

S.Fox

Focusing on writing my book has been going well for the sake of progress but probably to the dismay and annoyance of my publisher as I keep asking for time extensions before signing the final contract haha. Well I have been able to find some time to work on art from time to time as evident by the recent uploads and there are more projects in the works (between 12-25) that are all in various stages of the creative process. Thank you all for still following me and I still wish I had pursued my art more heavily instead of falling victim to the normal cycle many of us find ourselves in of working a job we hate just to survive. If I could go back there are a few things I would change if I could, the main one being actually quiting the job that takes up so much of my time in order to pursue a more creative life of art, books, and comics.

After I finish the first of the series in the Falison novels I will be focusing on a few comics, one of which is an overdue commission for some friends that has been pushed further and further back due to work, the comic, health dips, and family being both a pest and celebrating random things. I never thought I would even get this far with my book and yes, I am very happy with how far Falison has come since its inception way back in 2009. However, this is still not the original state I wanted it to be in. The original goal was always have a comic running concurrently with the books as they are produced and a patreon or subscribestar running to fund it. That is why this coming week I am going to do my best to finalize either a patreon page or subscribestar page to help fund the creation of comics, pinups, books, and other fun ideas I have in mind for the world of my strange synthetic creations of fur, flesh, and alloys. Even if I at some point do become a creative writing teacher as I have slowly been pursuing I still plan to follow this original route of focusing mostly on my much more enjoyable world of fluffy things. It would be ironic to me if I ended up not needing to work a job at all because of income from patreon/subscribestar and commissions.

As some of you have noticed there tends to be a trend where I go long periods without posting anything on here or my other accounts. That has to do with the primary stuff mentioned above of work, family, and health. I wish I were more fortunate at this point in life to where some or all three of those things were easy to cope or deal with but life has a way of finding the tiniest crack in your existence just to cause a delay, trouble, or any number of complications. I have nearly died several times due to health or a car accident, been both bankrupt and wealthy, lost more family than anyone would be sane mentioning and gained new family, but through it all at least I have had my friends. There are too many of you to list from my damaged memory but I love all of you and look forward to more years with all of you in my life. Even if I haven't poked you in a while through DM that doesn't mean I consider you less of a friend than when we talked somewhat regularly or hung-out at a convention in the past.

This is a longer update than I normally post but you all deserved to know what was going on. If you have any questions my notes are still active unlike some people or you can reach out to me over on telegram, discord, or one of my other accounts. I'm pretty easy to track down anyway because I like the name sporefox. Thank you if you read this far and I love all of you. Stay safe out there, take time to take care of yourself, your health, and your needs, and always try to make every day better than your inner demons cry out for it to be.

~S.Fox

Yep, I failed the last one but that is my goal for 2021! Short updates because we all know how 2020 is going for essential workers.

Here we go!

S.Fox

You buy a new art tablet, it's bigger, and you really want to do stuff on it buuuut...

Family keeps interrupting,
work has you on call,
publisher stuff going on,
a laptop held in customs that is also an art tablet,
you finally get internet faster than dial-up...

No it's not the past, that's just a summary of the past month ^^ I hope you are all doing well and staying safe out there. When I finally have some privacy or peace and quiet I will finish something or do a stream.
Maybe Monday? Or Tuesday? We'll see but I really would like to finally get to work on something for more than a few minutes on this thing. It's the Huion Kamvas 22 because I was tired of something smaller than a piece of standard printer paper to work on.

Just an update before I head to work today but you all deserve to know what's up. Later <3

S.Fox

At home or work,
feeling exhausted a lot,
outside,
feeling like a cactus without time to create,
limited time to draw again,
need energy to draw,
I just want to art again,

help

S.Fox
my 2020
that is all.

P.S. I'm fine, I just miss having time to work on art.
I cry at night but still I smile and wave at the job I work.

Ever since my first accident that nearly cost my life I have been living each that came after as a gift and made them the best they could be. And yet even now during all the craziness that is happening, forced hour increases, more stress, bigger things to worry about, I still find pleasure in every new day through sickness, accident, injury, or tragedy. I don't know why I am the way I am in the way I see the passage of time as something not so finite as a deadline demands. But I would not trade any of my days I have lived for those of someone forced to treat each day as a deadline that must be met. This is why my art and writing go so slowly. Every day just feels like a new set of hours that flow around me like a stone in a stream. And yet somehow I am nearing the fruition of a dream if I can just focus enough to finish it. Several months ago I negotiated the terms of a contract with a publisher that is interested in putting my Falison series out into the world; not just the first book, but the entire series of it as they are created. The only hurdle present in this stream of life to accomplish this remains the job I took at the grocery store. And yet to be rid of that place would also be rid of what has allowed this future to present itself thanks to the increase of hours that has helped me pay off a lot of debts.

Maybe I've just been one of the lucky ones. Maybe how I treat and see time is part of the reason this is coming to pass. Regardless of what does end up happening I wanted to let you all know I have not abandoned you. All of my followers that have come and gone over the years in my creative endeavors have given me the strength to get better and to realize long ago that no matter how difficult times may seem, there is always someone out there who cares. Thank you all for still caring about my work even as slow as it gets created. If anything I've only gotten a bit slower thanks to recent events over the last two years. But you all still mean a lot to me, and I owe you more than words and art could repay.

Thank you for being a watcher, and may your coming days be joyful in their own unique ways. If you want to send me a message I will always respond when I am able.

S.Fox

Regardless of all the stress I'm under and the decrease in time from both jobs, I plan to still be more active in art and have things in the works. Will be posting more through the week but will also be moving some of my older posts to scraps. Anyway short update take care!

S.Fox

So for a while now I've had issues with my Cintiq that I thought were caused by various hardware issues in either my desktop or the tablet itself. After working through everything, building a newer more powerful rig, and talking through the situation with Wacom tech support and with some friends it seems the problem itself is not what Wacom thought it might be. What I've found is these pen display tablets eventually take on ware from use to the unmentioned texture surface that is applied to the tablet screen. Thankfully this texture surface is nothing more than a form of screen protector and I have already ordered the replacement to fix the issue. When it arrives I will get back to work on my backlog of undigitized artwork and back to comic production, as well as finally be able to finish my patreon banner and get that off the ground after it's year long stasis. Thank you all for not giving up on me yet but also yes I am very much alive.

"Always treat the dawn of a new day as a new chance because every day living is a gift."

S.Fox

Hey everyone, I'm home from IFC and unwinding after a really fun weekend. Saw lots of people I hadn't gotten to talk to in years and made new friends along the way. Hoping to be more active in the fandom now since things seem to be turning for the better. If any of you ran into me at the con please stay in touch. I'll be posting some photos soon of what is unfortunately probably the last convention for my current fursuit head. I know I never got the chance to wear him as much as I should have but time wears down even the most well made things. The trip home just seemed too much for him and some primary construction points gave out from some unseen potholes in the road. I'll miss wearing him at the rare con experiences I have but he will not be forgotten and will be remade better than ever!

One of the high points of the con for me came on Saturday when I ran into some of my favorite artists, one of which managed to finish a picture of Simo in what I feel was an hour or two. I'll be uploading that soon as well. With any luck I will finally be able to break out of this rut of only one local con a year. I'll never forget this one and will always do my best to attend it.

To all of you out there who made it to Indy this past weekend, who may be reading this, or who helped make IFC 2019 such an amazing reality I say thank you. You all are wonderful people and furs and you helped me see it's ok to feel happiness again.

S.Fox

As I'm sure many of you have noticed there hasn't been an upload from me in a while. I can assure you there is plenty on the way thanks to graduating college earlier this month. Falison will be continued soon and I will do my best to keep it at a weekly upload schedule now that the main time consumer is out of the way. Anyway just a short update but sometimes like the small details in life, they can be the most important. You can expect over 20 new sketches and finished pieces to enjoy before the end of the month.

S.Fox

I'll be posting things to NewGrounds as another gallery area. Depending how the upload process goes there I may start using NewGrounds as a more common upload area.

https://sporefox.newgrounds.com/

Feel free to join me there :D

S.Fox

At last the six class semester is over and I can barely focus on anything because of how the last two weeks of it went. I have a few things in the works that I'll be posting as soon as I feel they're ready to be shared. Until then just a short update to let everyone know I'm alive and not done yet with art. But the semester that felt like some hellish nightmare of stress is done and hopefully wont be a precursor to how the spring semester will go. Farewell everyone, I'm going to take a nap.

S.Fox

Hey everyone still lurking around my account, yep I'm still alive. I know I've been making a lot of these posts just to keep you all aware that I still exist and linger in this madhouse of life. But as for new content there is still going to be a bit of a wait as six classes this semester consume what freetime I have away from working on weekends in order to drive to those six classes. After these are out of the way there are only five classes that will remain between me and being done with this five year long pursuit to be the first with anything higher than an associates degree in my entire family, let alone a focused major.

Sorry for my absences away from everything including my other accounts and on telegram. There will come a time soon when I will be returning to life as a creator of wonderful things including new pinups and stories. Until then unfortunately we all will just have to wait as I work through this hard time of no freedom aside from what to put on my sandwich or yogurt to eat.

S.Fox

The initial plan was to break through this final wall of college life and be done by May this year. Now that is still the plan but this escalation of classes has started to make my head hurt. I'll try to get back to making something at least art wise when I can but it's still a hectic time. Just wanted to let you all know I'm not dead yet!

S.Fox

To start off I'd like to apologize for my absence away from here and my other accounts but something happened a few months ago that sent me spiraling into a pretty bad place.

All relationships are things I take seriously and only go into them expecting things to work out in the long run, and for as long as this last one lasted it still fell apart the same way as the others. At least this time we are supposedly still friends after and they haven't blocked me for no reason like those before but the pain always hits hard. Those of you I felt close enough to talk to about it understand what happened and I will not be discussing it here. That's in the past and I am almost out of this dark tunnel.

As far as another relationship goes that is something that will have to wait unless that person wants to come back, but even then we will need to have a talk about things.

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This section is about being real so please don't get angry for what I'm about to say and this is just something I've grown to notice starting back in highschool.

There is more to life than sex. Getting the most lays and having kids is a primal urge and that is not what a connection should be all about.

Some of the smartest people I know have said the same thing with similar phrasing, but it all came down to the same thing. Love is not lust. Hate is not anger. Relationships are formed from love not lust. And when one side develops love and the other only has lust things will get messy.

A dream from last night helped me realize where things fell apart on both sides and I understand now. Things just take time to heal and even for my thick emotionless appearance I do have a soft center. Whether or not I grow comfortable enough to show it to you depends on how close we get. There are only a handful of people I've let get that close and every time now I've only gotten hurt because they either didn't want to deal with me, they lost interest in what I was offering them or didn't care anymore, feelings once had had now died away towards me. This has been the cycle now five times with some being longer than others.

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Falison is on hold until I get through some more things including the fall semester unless I somehow find time to work on it again. However Falison First Sequence continues to progress, the first of many books set before the comic timeline. I got myself into this by trying to make things right for someone and ended up only getting scooted aside. Now I am stuck forcing my way through six classes this fall when I normally only take four, just to be able to be done with college by May of next year. The stress will be a lot and now the only person I have left to talk to thankfully understand that stress.

Stress can make us act in ways we thought we were better than acting. It tests our friendships and relationships to see if they are true. Now as I wonder this world alone again with my small circle of five friends I will see if I am strong enough still to face the future.

S.Fox

P.s I know I'm not through the tunnel yet but I can see the light now and it feels warm.

Hey everyone, just a short post to let you all know I'm still around and still doing art. As you have probably seen in the past a bit of a pattern comes about when the semester really gets going. That same pattern is true this year as it has been for the past several years but one final year to go until this journey is behind us and that sweet, sweet BA will finally be in my hands.

As for artwork I have been putting more time into details that I have been leaving out simply because I wasn't confident enough in my own abilities to put them in. So as a result you all can expect to see all the finer things that make intimate moments and other scenes have a carried emotion to complete their story. To list a few things I am pushing for Ambient lighting, depth of field, particle effects, improved lighting, facial and body emotions, action poses, and several others that will just take time. All learning experiences take time when you're self taught, even with a few art classes under my belt there are plenty of things the professors simply chose to pass over because the graphic design curriculum was a bit out of date (by eight years).

And so here we are again with more writing and imagination to carve through and explore. Take time to enjoy the little things and please, everyone out there acting this way, stop letting opinions set you off like a wildfire raging through a dry field. It's not good for anyone and just makes the one shouting the words seem that much more dim witted. Thanks for reading and have a good Easter.

~S.Fox~

That is all. Be prepared for fennec lewds in the future as I finally show my sona some overdue love.

Also I'm looking for people to commission.

Sadly this dilemma is preventing me from keeping you all updated on my recent artwork and it has been this way now for several weeks. I have several new Falison pages uploaded on my other accounts as well as on the main comic site http://falisonproject.thecomicseries.com/ but until this issue is resolved, which I highly doubt it ever will be, you will need to find me on DeviantArt (sporefox1), Inkbunny (sporefox, yes I have one), the main falison comic site, or even my sofurry. I have other art accounts that might do for sharing my work around, it just pains me to see my primary account finally hitting a problem with FA. Now I know some of you will say something along these lines, "FA has always had problems because the team behind it sucks" or some other stream of drama. I don't care for drama behind the scenes. I just want something I use to share my artwork to actually work when I need to upload something new. This is an art sharing site for pictures, flash animations, music, and even literature.

By no means does this mean I will be leaving FA. I just can't seem to get anything uploaded. I hope all of you are enjoying the holidays and the end of a rough year for everyone. Have a pleasant end to your 2017 and be kind to those around you.

S.Fox