Using Inkbunny now. Not abandoning FA. But some of my future submissions may straddle the line of what FA allows, and I'm not censoring them so this is just to cover my bases.

https://inkbunny.net/Firros

I'll be uploading my gallery there piece by piece. Thankfully (and sadly) it isn't all that much to transfer across.

Gonna offer up a commission slot. Story, pic, whichever you're after. Need about $100 but if you have a solid idea for more I'll consider that too. DM me if interested.

EDIT: screwed that up, not looking necessarily for one $100 commission. Will take smaller projects as well.

Just been subjected to a hefty automotive expense that left my financial situation near zero.

So if some nice people were to buy a few things off my gumroad or perhaps look into a commission from me, I'd really appreciate it. [edit] Or if you're super generous, I also have a Ko-Fi account now. Both links are in my journal and submission footers, and on my profile.

Note me here or contact me via other means if you have them.

Not a lot on either at the moment, but I have created accounts on Itaku and Bluesky.

https://itaku.ee/profile/firros-correl

https://bsky.app/profile/firroscorrel.bsky.social

I'll try to remember I have them as I continue with the projects I have going at the moment.

I'll also remind folks of my discord server that tends to see everything first.

https://discord.gg/xPqZsSCW69

I've created an Instagram account. I don't plan to make extensive use of it, it will simply be an easy avenue of communication since FA and Twitter have both been making dubious decisions lately. It's public, so if I go dark here it'll be easy to find me there.

I will probably also look into alternative art sites as backups but for now I'll keep a presence here and my insta is https://www.instagram.com/firroscorrel/

...I ain't changing shit.

If I want to draw or write about children being eaten or killed, I will for the sake of the story I'm telling at the time.

Fuck censorship, fuck your god and your feelings, fuck FA's retarded decision making and fuck the morons behind it.

This is mostly because my old twitter was the last online thing that I still use with a connection to the old account name. Wanted to be rid of that and start fresh.

New account is here. I'll be using it mostly for sketches, since stories and larger resolution pics will still need to go here on FA.

Since I have a twitter, figure I might as well use it.

I want to try and sketch more often rather than working pics through to completion one at a time, since I feel like that method slows me down and trying something different might help increase my output. I'll be using twitter to host these sketches and leaving my account here for completed pics.

There are a couple sketches uploaded already and I will be trying to put more up on a regular basis.

The account is here if ye be interested.

So, sort of an update from my last journal I suppose.

After a few weeks of nothing, the new job was finally able to give me work partway through August. It was only two days per week part time, but it was something. About a month after that, partway through September, lockdown restrictions in the Sydney surrounding area began to ease and I was able to work full time.

I blame myself for not getting more done in the free time I had there, but being essentially unemployed was kind of a stressful situation and I don't handle commissions all that quickly even under the best of times. And the sudden change from doing so little to doing so much hit me hard, as this job is more demanding than my last one but will hopefully provide a much higher income for the 2-5 years I will try to give it. It has taken me this long to adjust to the point that I can get home after work and not immediately want to just sleep. I'm doing anywhere between 8-11 hours a day, 5-6 days a week. Pick-packing, manual labour and forklift driving and no day's workload can be predicted.

As a result, my overall schedule is less predictable than it used to be. Between work, the several D&D campaigns I am part of/running, and finding time for family and friends, I cannot promise anything close to regular uploads here, but I will do my best to keep artwork and stories flowing as much as I can.

Hurrah for Covid and all the protesting fucktards in Sydney for making our lockdown period EVEN LONGER. B<


Long story short, I have recently finished at my old job (FINALLY), and now my new job is affected by the Sydney lockdown to the point that their workload has all but stopped. Being the new guy, I'm on casual rates for a six month trial period and that means I am not entitled to sick leave, holiday pay or things of that nature.

The delay in my starting time means I essentially don't have an income until the situation changes, and since this lockdown is projected to last a month that means things are gonna start hurting before this is over.

Commissions will not get me through this, but they'll help. Alternatively, there are better resolution versions of all the pics in my gallery available on my gumroad store, as well as a support option similar to a subscription if you feel exceptionally generous.

The loan I took out for my car is getting real close to done, and as such I'm pretty in favour of getting it sorted asap.

To that end, I will make myself available for a commission or two.

Info is HERE.

You can send me a note here, or if you have existing means of getting in touch with me that works too.

I closed the damn thing without noticing a piece of offcut plastic from a mini I had been building was between two of the keys.

The glass itself survived but put too much pressure on the lcd or whatever it is underneath. Now two thirds of it light up but show nothing, and the part I can see is the side OPPOSITE of where the fucking taskbar and start menu are.

And the place I planned to take it to get fixed decided to close early today. Fuckin wonderful.

I realize it's been a while since I uploaded anything, and it may be a while before that changes.

Last year I began playing DnD with a group of friends, and last month I began DM'ing a campaign of my own. It is an predominantly homebrew campaign so there is a lot of planning and writing required on my part. But it is huge amounts of fun and my players are enjoying it a lot so far.

I will still be working on things for here. Just... less so.

Loosely following off my last journal, things have not been the greatest for me in general. To cope I've been binging on old final fantasy games and the recent 40k release of Indomitus. I do have a few stories half finished lying around and several ideas for new pics, but I just haven't had the drive to pick up the stylus.

Anxiety attacks are an absolute killer to motivation, and even though it's been about a month, I'm still pushing thoughts through my head. The utter lack of job options due to Covid has basically trapped me at my current job for the time being, and I have to grudgingly be grateful to my boss for not throwing me out after the less than elegant outburst I threw at him when my panic turned into anger. The issue of long service came up, and if I can hold out at this job until march, a substantial amount of money will be mine to claim. In hindsight, I should have thought of this before I lost my shit because it's not the sort of thing I can really afford to throw away.

So basically... nothing has really changed. I absolutely hate this situation but it is probably gonna be my reality for the next six months. I'll do what I can artwise and storywise to get through it. Firros, Renee, Ezra and Jenn, and some characters that have yet to make an appearance all have a future playing out in my head and I intend to have these stories on your screens before too long.

I made to leave for work this morning and broke down halfway there. Not my car, me. I won't recount the whole story here but this has been a long time coming. I told my boss over the phone that I was finishing, that I could not keep going back there. Gonna have another chat this afternoon but my mind is pretty set on quitting.

While I look for another job, my free time is probably gonna be more substantial so I will try to get some things up for sale on Gumroad. Please consider taking a look. I don't charge a lot and every little is gonna help in this time. I'll also offer commissions, one at a time, and obviously I'm gonna try to keep them flowing so hopefully turnaround will be pretty quick. I'll post another journal or submission when my current commission is concluded which will hopefully be sometime today or tomorrow.

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9521348

Take a look.

Just in case you would like to talk about the setting of Vern, its characters or its inner workings. Or its characters' inner workings.

Here.

While my free time limits my art output to a bit of a crawl, I thought I'd open up to questions about my characters and their setting.

Anything you want to know about the world of Vern, or about Firros, Vayne or whoever else that lives there.

Questions will be answered as soon as time permits.

I am not sure how best to say this, so vague but clear enough is the direction I'm gonna go with.

My mother's health has been deteriorating for some time now, due to a combination of factors that left things worse than they needed to be. By the time we knew what might be happening, it was basically too late to do much. It isn't anybody's fault, though some did help less than others. This has been taking a toll on my father, who basically went from retiring from his full time job to being a full time carer.

Watching her slowly get worse has been tough on us all, but especially on Dad since he's the only one that's with her pretty much all the time. My younger brother and I both work, and I haven't lived there in years. Several days ago, my father was admitted to hospital with chest pains that started early morning and ran through to late morning. I agreed to stay with Mum for the duration to help my brother look after her, and visited Dad in hospital to get the info on the situation and assure him that Mum would be alright. My aunt and a family friend have both helped out so Mum is never alone, but of course none of us are able to commit to any measure of full time care on a permanent basis. Dad was, but with this development he too is likely to need someone less fragile to help him keep tabs on Mum and to keep an eye on him too.

I'm going to try and persuade them to apply for a carer to help out, not necessarily to live with them but someone who can at least visit a few times a week to lessen the strain on them both. There are certain other things that need seeing to, but the short version of all this is that I'm just not sure yet when my routine will return to normal.

Since Patreon sucks dicks for artists of my persuasion, I have followed the example of many other artists and created a Gumroad account. For the time being it is a relatively bare setup with a simple pledge option, however I will begin adding products in the coming... time. For the most part these will be higher resolution versions of my regular watermarked uploads here, but I am hoping there will be the occasional larger products I can make better money off there too.

The account can be found here.

Thanks to anyone who helps me along.

I opened this account with a bang and then kind of trailed off.

That's my bad, I got a bit sidetracked. More drawings and stories will be here, though, promise.

Like the thing says, I am opening for commissions.

Three slots, I'll see how it goes and if successful I will open more next time. Send me a note if you're interested.


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Welcome to my first journal.

I wanted to see how things would go before I made too many decisions regarding this account, but for the most part I think things are going well enough.

Anyone familiar with my old account may have noticed a slight change to my drawing technique and style, and if not well all I can say is that it's there, trust me.

On that note, this new method is somewhat more streamlined than my old one, to the point that I would like to try my hand at offering commissions in the near future. I'm not setting up a queue just yet, but once I've got prices sorted would anyone be interested? I'd like to try and avoid having any kind of dependency on things like Patreon or SubscribeStar because honestly? I hate the whole concept of making people pay regularly for content and it puts a level of pressure on me that I'd rather not have.

I may also set up a new Gumroad account at a later date to sell small scale publications or more ambitious art projects. But commission work is what I want to experiment with for now. Any interest?