Things have come to the point that I'm having to go through another debt consolidation. It's not the same thing as bankruptcy, but it's something to help me pool all my credit cards debt into one pool. I've done this once before with the same company 10 years ago. This time its less debt that I'm trying to pay off, but when I my paycheck is gone by the first day and then my checking keeps getting over draft charges for bounced bills, I can't keep living this way. Money is still going to supper tight, as I now have no credit cards and have to live with what money I can save from my pay check, what little that is. It's going to take a while before I'm back on my feet to have any extra money.

I know I'm not alone as many other people are having money problems and trying to make it from pay check to pay check. I have opened this up for a few commission slots if people our interested in help me out by earn some money.

$5 for a sketch: that a basic drawing two character. +$2 for each additional character. background is +$3.$10 for a ink drawing: that's for two character drawing, +$3 for each additional character. Background is +$4.$15 for a color drawing: that's for two characters drawing, +4 for each additional character, and background is +$5.comic cost a little more$25 for a black and white page$30 for a color page

Written stories very on price per page, general $25 for a 3-5 page story.

Once again I'm opening things up looking to chat with new and old people again. I know I've had some wonderful people in the past hit me up, a few have stuck with me and we have been chatting over the past few months. It's been great, one very special person, hopefully she'll know who she is, has really helped me get over some bad spots of arts block. Helping me come up with some great new drawings and two new characters.

See chatting with me, has some benefits! I may share new art with you, and other stuff. I don’t do it for everyone, but the characters I created for the one special friend, she never asked me for them. We have just been chatting for a while and these where ideas we came up together for these new characters. Kazzi the little goblin was one of those characters.

You can PM me here or friend me on Discord. With my new work schedule, I'm no longer on the grave shift, I've been moved to the swing shift working 10 hour days 4 days a week. Will try to find the best time to chat.

I look forward to meeting and chatting with ya'll

Discord:Blackrain#9948

I know I posted about my job a few months ago. I thought things had gotten better and I wasn't in fear of losing my job when the company was doing the mass layoffs a few months ago. Well if was wrong.

Last week my manager called me to give me the heads up that the company may be getting rid of the grave shift, and they were thing of having us go to 4-10s like the rest of the production area. For those who don't know 4-10s means, work 4 day at a 10 hour shift, instead of 5 day at 8 hour. The company is going through a slump this year and they are looking at any ways they can to save money. I have a couple coworkers that can't do a 4-10 schedule because they have kids, other thing only an 8 hour work schedule works better for, or a day job so they have to work graves.

I really don't want to move to a different shift, but have less issues then my other coworkers. What got me worried is the company penny pinching on everything now to save money, and that means overtime. They've been cutting back over for a while, but they have been getting really crazy about it lately.

Example: my company offers in house training for employees on stuff to learn new skills to become better at their job. Part of my job in the tool crib is work on the computer using Microsoft office. They had a class for Microsoft Excel, something I don't have a lot experience with, but use with my job. My manager Recommended that I take the classes. I did. I also was to get paid for taking them too as I have to go to them when I off the clock. So it would be a hour of overtime for me. After I took the first class, I got a call from my manager telling me I can't have any overtime, so I have to clock out early this week. She still wants me to attend the Excel classes, but to clock out an hour early on those day so I don't get any overtime.

So I don't know. There is no official word of if or when grave shift is going away. Along with how my manager has been treating my coworkers that can't do the 4-10s has me feeling uneasy.

I'm not sure what I should do. I feel like I should start throwing Resumes out now, like my grave shift coworker, and just move onto a better job we're I don't feel like I could lose it any day. But I also feel I should wait until I get the word that grave shift is going bye bye. Not wanting to jump the gun and get a job that would start me off paying less then I'm earning right now. It's just those jobs I'm looking at may not still be around if I wait. This all suck.

Starving artist that needs day/grave job to live. Lol.

Thanks for listening to me vent some.

Ok trying to do more to keep everyone informed on what’s going on and my plans.

First off, hitting another artist slump. Been getting stupid head fog that’s been killing my motivation and energy to draw. I'm still getting ideas, chatting with some great people to inspire some great new ideas. I'm putting them on my ever-growing list of stuff I need to work on. This fog head I know will pass, I hope sooner than later. I know it’s an ongoing health issue that I’m working on to try to improve.

To help give me that motivating kick in the ass I need to work on stuff I’m going to give a list of my planned projects. Maybe if people see what I want to work on, people may keep bugging me about them.

This list is in no potential order. Some of them are commission, some are just projects I want to work on. If you have any question about a project please asking.

1. VIV sketches for my patreon members
2. Friends (commission)
3. Dance on the Spiders Web (commission(title work in progress)
4. Vira Happy Sack Suit (commission)
5. Aqua Vore World (commission)
6. Babysitting (comic)
7. Monster Girls (comic)
8. Vore Hunter (comic)
9. Happy Sack Suit (comic)
10. Snake Kisses (comic)
11. Redraw Web’s (comic)
12. Next chapters for Voreland Theme Park (story)
13. Rewrite Hello Mom (story)
14. Rewrite Pet or Food (story)
15. Jeff and Monica: Roommates interview (story)
16. Captain Space Cocky (comic)
17. Roommates (story)
18. Gateway Station (story)
19. New Job (comic)
20. Pet Play (comic)
21. Other projects comics and stories as they pop up.

A little update, trying to do more of these of these more often.

Once again I want to thank everyone that has stepped up to ask me for a commission. Thank ya’ll so much. I know I still owe people some from the past and am trying to work on them, but am still thankful for everyone that has commissioned me, past, present, and future. Thank ya'll once again! I'm still open for new commission, just PM me about it.

Next; To help push me to work on more written vore stories and earn some money from them I have started to self publish some of my stories on Amazon for sale. So far I just have the first two chapters of the Voreland Theme Park posted on Amazon for sale. I edit the first story a little fixing some grammar and word errors I found. If ya’ll want to help to can check out and buy those first two short stories. I will be posting more soon. Hopefully the link to my Amazon book paper works, I posted it below.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FM4MHRV6

I still need to push myself to work on more stuff. I hope to get back to working on comics again, finishing up the Friends comic.
I’m still open to anyone that wants to chat, old and new friends. I’ve been get some great ideas chatting with a few new people I’ve recently met. Kazzi, my new little goblin character came from chatting with a new friend. Chats may not always go well or last for very long, but it’s fun meeting new people.

Things are still a little unstable at my job, but in a monthly safety meeting my main big manager over my department told us he was doing his best to keep our small department off the chapping block. The tool crib is a very small department, around 16 of use. We are part of the maintenance department, there is around 30-40 personal in the maintenance department, because of how small our two departments our and how important they our right now we would be on the very end of the layoff list, if they ever got that far down on the list. It kind of makes me feel a little better, but not over joyed. I’m still looking at other job openings, but I’m not in as big a rush as before.

I’m also trying to find other ways to make money on the side, like more commissions work, publishing stories on Amazon, ets. I need to learn more in how to make the 3d files for 3d printing. Making sex vore 3d print stuff.

Last; just throwing this out, what is stuff people want to see more of? What more stuff people want me to work on drawing?

Last week the company I work for did their first company wide set of mass layoffs. The market is slow for them, as people are not buying a lot of their products. Guess when you make a really high quality cooler, chair, table, kayak, playset, basketball stand, people won't need to replace them. If you make them to last their going to last. Wednesday when I went into work, I found out that a lot of people had been layoff. I'm in a special place being in the Tool Crib part of the maintenance department, the Tool Crib is very short staffed right now as it is. Not saying anyone is safe from being fired or layoff, but if they did it would really hurt the performance of the tool crib, putting more stress on the few people that are still working there.

Nothing is guaranteed, and I can safe I'm complete safe from being let go. I feel I'm pretty good at my job, work well with my co-workers, do everything asked of me by my managers, that was until I get an email from then kind of giving me a talk to, with out a real talk to. What I'm trying to say, for the past four years I have been working at this company there have been stuff I have been doing that they had no problem with. This helps me do my job, great. They email basically went through and said "We need you to stop doing...". I was like what the F@*k! Four years I've been doing this and now you have a problem with it now. So I don't know with the mass layoff, if this was a way for my manager to tell me, unofficially that I might be on the next list of layoff's if I don't change those feel things.

So now that I don't feel that my job is safe anymore, I'm going to have to start looking for a new and hopefully better job now. I might just be paranoid, but I feel they will be finally getting rid of grave shift, and with the layoff, I want be moved to some place different in the company, but just shown the door.

Once again, I have commission slots open, along with finish up old commission. I'm looking into other ways to try to earn extra money. I know I'm not the only person hurting in the economy right now, but just asking for a little help.

Thanks for listening to my rambling.

Once again I want to first thank the few people that stepped up when I opened up asking people to chat with. Thank you all. The few people that I have chatted with have helped me get my creative juices flowing. A few others it was nice chatting with ya'll for a little bit then we kind of dropped off. Always hit me up again, when every you want. I'm always open to chat with old and new people. But please just jump on me to draw stuff for you right away, that's a big turn off for me to want to chat with someone. We can talk about stuff and if we come up with ideas that spare drawings I'll share them with you. Not all ideas will get drown, just letting you know.

Ok commission talk. I'm opening up to taking new commission again. I know I have a few old ones I still owe people. If your one of those people please get in contact with me. I sometimes need a kick in the butt to get motivated. I'm doing this as I've had some medical bills come up that I need to pay down. I know times are hard for everyone out there, I know, so anything ya'll can do is grateful and welcome.

I've also been drawing and sketch a bit more, posting all my work over on my patreon and subscribestar first. So if you don't want a commission, think of join over there to help out. I should post more updates to let people know what I'm working on. Stop being a recluse.

Take care everyone!


Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=648767
Subscribestar: https://subscribestar.adult/vore-lab
Discord Group: https://discord.gg/5cqZBs4ZJb

I want to say thank you to everyone that took my offer to chat with me when I asked if anyone wanted. Thise few people who stepped up, thank you! It has helped me out a lot.

I want to say sorry to a few people we didn't get to talk much due to my work schedule. I'm still open to chatting when we can. Discord is one of the better places to catch me, so if you want to still chat PM me here to get my Discord username.

Oh and one big thing, Please, Please, don't try to us this as a chance to get free art. Nothing kills my willingness to chat with someone if the first thing they ask is will you draw my OC doing this? I'm not saying it won't give it a look.

I'm hoping by chatting I can share ideas, get to know new people. A lot of times, I'm willing to share sketches of stuff I'm working on, or work on ideas we brainstormed together. It just depends on how I'm feeling and what other stuff I'm working on at the time.

So once again If anyone wants to chat, I'm open to chatting with people. Just be patient with me.

I posted this over on my discord group, should also post it here.

I've been having art block and lack of motivation again. I put out a call for anyone that wanted to chat to hit me up. My current the situation I haven't been able to talk with a lot of people, I found that can cause my mental block and lack of energy. Chatting with people can help me get motivated along with brainstorming ideas.

After I posted my first chat request on my discord group I had one person hit me up. We have been chatting for a little bit and it has already helped me out a lot. I'm already trying to sketch more and they have given me some ideas for new characters.

So there can be some benefits if you chat with me. DM me on discord or PM me here on FA.

Will Patreon hit me the other day on one of the drawings I uploaded. It wasn't even one of my vore drawings.

Patreon flagged it saying it was showing "Sexually Gratifying Works" basically saying i was showing unwilling sex/rape in the drawing.

I call not true on my part, in the drawings description, I plainly state that the female is willing and goes into a contract to participate in the action. Since a lot of places have been trying to make it harder to post vore and other art like it, you have to make sure the "art tags" have "WILLING" in some form. Meaning the females are doing this because they want to.

If patreon keeps being A@@holes, I may try re-upload the drawing with just a different description. I tried adding more willing tags.

I don't make a lot of money from patreon, but it's a nice place to see a little extra monthly income come from.

The drawing was something from the Space Hooker universe, trying to help expand that universe some by showing some of the tech or items from it. Pleasure Pods.

I'm opening up several commission slot at this time.

I've ran into a bit of a financial trouble and need to bring in some more money to help cover some medical bills. If you want to get a commission from me please message me.

$5 for a sketch, that a basic drawing two character. +$2 for each additional character. background is +$3.
$10 for a ink drawing, that's for two character drawing, +$3 for each additional character. Background is +$4.
$15 for a color drawing, that's for two characters drawing, +4 for each additional character, and background is +$5.

I will only be taking a very limited number of comic commission. I don't want to over load myself by taking on to many comic commission right. That being said, a few slots have opened up.

comic prices by page.
$25 for a black and white page
$30 for a color page

I'm going to be opening up to take some commission for a while. It will only be for single drawings, no comic commission yet. If anyone is interested, please PM me to talk about your commission idea. I'm still trying to work on some old commission I still owe a few people from a while ago, that is one reason for me not taking any comic commission right now.

My prices are listed below.

$5 for a sketch, that a basic drawing two character. +$2 for each additional character. background is +$3.
$10 for a ink drawing, that's for two character drawing, +$3 for each additional character. Background is +$4.
$15 for a color drawing, that's for two characters drawing, +4 for each additional character, and background is +$5.

That was a lot faster then I had thought it was going to take. I really like using my tablet to drawing on, it still don't have all the bells and whistles my main computer has, but it lets me drawing in places I can't normally take my computer. I'm always late when it comes to trying out new tech when it comes to drawing sometimes.

To the point of this post. I have finished the Playful Pet comic. After a 4 year hiatus I finally finished the comic. I've uploaded the last 4 pages up to my Patreon and Subscribestar(link to both below). If you want to see the comic now please think of join ether group. I also loaded the full comic to make it easier to read it in full. After the normal time period of time I will release the 4 pages on my public areas.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=648767
Subscribestar: https://subscribestar.adult/vore-lab

If people don't want to join Patreon of Subscribestar, I have been thinking of putting some stuff up on Gumroad. I know there have been some peoples lately with them purging vore artist. I've never tried sold anything on Gunroad before, but willing to give it a try. If people are willing to just buy the comic than I might post it up there. Let me know what people think of this idea?

I know money is tight for everyone, and I'm just looking for small ways for me to earn extra money in different ways. I want to get drawing more and get all these ideas in my head out on paper to share with everyone.

I've been playing around using my tablet more. I'm talking about a regular Samson tablet, not my drawing Wacon tablet I was to draw with on the computer with. I got a nice big tablet last year and was able to download "Clip Studio" on it. It's one of the reasons why I've been doing more sketches this year the I have been in the past few years.

Tonight while at work instead of working on new sketch, I pulled up one of the old ones I had already done. The next page to "Playful Pet". It took some playing around, but I was able to figure out how to ink the sketch line. This is a wonderful this. I should be able to start inking and coloring my sketches now. This means I will be able to work on more comic pages too....I hope. Look forward to the last pages for Playful Pet to be posted soon. I'm going to be focusing on finishing those page.

I'll post the finished pages first to my patreon and subscribestar.

I don't do a lot of these, need to fix that. Just a little update to let everyone I have been doing a lot more sketches, and I do mean a lot more. If you want to see them first join my Patreon or Subscribestar to see them first.

Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=648767
Subscribestar https://subscribestar.adult/vore-lab

I have also worked on finishing the Playful Pet comic. I have posted the sketch pages up on my Patreon/Subscribestar. If you join at the sketch tier level for just $1 you can see the Playful Pet comic sketch pages. The finished pages will be posted at the comic tier level.

I've trying to work on more drawings and get back to working on commission and comics. I hope to have more to show soon. If you want to help me out please think of supporting me on Patreon or Subscribestar.

Thanks!

The earth has once more gone full circle around the sun marking off another year I've been alive on the planet. I'm now 44 years old. Looking back over my short time here on the planet there have been a lot of ups and downs. There have been times when I was drawing more, when I was doing 2-3 sketch every morning. The last few years that has really dropped off a lot, there has been a lot a reason for that. As of the start of this year I have been sketching more, not 2-3 sketches a day like I was doing, but I'm getting 3-4 a week done. I have been posting these new sketches up on my patreon and subscribestar page. If you want to see all my art work early please think of joining to see it and help me out. This is a small start, but small steps to hopefully to get back into work on more stuff.

The past few months I have had a few people pm me asking if I was open to doing some art commission. As honor as I am that anyone would want to commission me to do anything, I've had to turn them all down. Not that I didn't want to do the commission. Most of their ideas sound fun and would be interesting to do. I have a list of old commission I owe people from years ago. I didn't want to add more commission to that list, not just yet. I'm going to get those commission finished first...I promise...even years late.

With this being the beginning of a new year, me trying to manage my time better with all the different projects I'm working on, drawing vore art, writing vore stories, then working on SFW art and stories, and my podcast... I have a lot on my plate. I also want to learn how to designs 3D models so I can 3D print them. Yes that would be vore models too.

I'm working on improve my health which has made me feel better the past few months. I still have good days and bad days. I have found that my diet, foods I eat have a real impact on how I feel.

I'm trying to push myself to get back into old drawing habits, hopefully I'll be sketch a lot more...hopefully!

So if if you want to really help me out at this time even if I'm not taking any commission right now, you can help support me by joining my patreon or subscribestar. I know money is tight right now for everyone.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=648767
Subscribestar: https://subscribestar.adult/vore-lab
Discord: https://discord.gg/5cqZBs4ZJb

I know I don't make a lot of post about my personal life, I don't know if people really want to know what's going on in my life or just want more art work. But there is a good reason there hasn't been a lot of new stuff the past few months and years. Bad health. This was something brand new to me.

Over the last three weeks I had a, sorry if this is a little gross, I had an anal pustule cyst form on my butt right next to my rectum. The pustule caused an anal fistula. It was painful and bleed a lot. The surgery was very simple, less then an hour, I didn't have to stay over night in the hospital. The surgery was to fix the anal fistula and to make sure it would not come back in the future. I'm recovering nicely with surprisingly little to no pain now.

I'm also taking this time off from work, the rest of this week, then back to work next week, to try and work on new stuff. That's why there has been a lot more new stuff showing up on Patreon right now. I'm just working on old sketches right now, but I do want to finally try to work on old commission. Yes I keep saying that, but I will work and finish them one day. Please be patient with me please. I know I have forgotten some people do to how long it has been, but I will try to get everyone the commission I owe them. I just might need to be reminded of them.

I'm working on something to help improve me health, dieting and working out some to help lose weight. It has been helping, some. I still have my knee problems, but that will be a long process to work on to hopefully make them better.

I have a lot on my plate and I'm trying to slowly work out my time to work on everything. Please be patient with me as I slowly come back with my drawings. Also let me know of stuff ya'll would like to see me draw more of.

I know I'm not very good about posting on how things are going on with me in my daily life. If people didn't know I've had some health problems over the years that have been keeping me from drawing as much as I use too. That really sucks!
A few months ago I started the carnivore diet to see if that might help me lose weight and help with inflammation. I have to say that it has really helped I have been feeling a lot better while on the carnivore diet, having lost 20 lbs. in 2 months, my body is not hurting, and my head is not feeling fuzzy any more.

The many reason is to help my bad knees, losing weight will help them. Last week I had a PRP injection in my knees to see if those would help heal the cartilage damage in my knees. PRP is platelet-rich plasma, they take my own plasma from my blood and inject it into my knees to help with the healing process. It's not stem cell, but its like stem cell. The hope is my own plasma will help the cartilage to regrow.

A week before the PRP injection I had to get off my inflammation medication. It wasn't the best of time, but I could manage, or so I thought. I started developing a second symptom, that lead to me having a bleeding abscess on my butt. Leaving all the gory details out, it's cleared up after a treatment of antibiotics, and I will have to have a simple surgery done to fix the problem to keep it from coming back.

Hopefully once this is all over with I will start feeling better again. I know I have said that in the past, but hopefully I can find more energy and time to work on drawings again, between work and my podcast. I am trying to drawing some more and I am trying to write some more vore stories too, working on adding some more to some of my older stories along with some new ideas too.

I have a podcast now "Gold Digger Comic Universe Review "

I've taken a small break from drawing these past few months to work on a small project with a very close friend of mine. I've started a podcast! A podcast on what you might ask?
For over 30 years I have been following, reading, collecting this one particular independent comic. Gold Digger by Fred Perry. Fred will be ending Gold Digger this year when he reaches issue 300. This gave me the great idea to start this review podcast where each episode, starting from issue 1, we go over that issue and we make our way through out the series all the way to issue 300. My co-host Nikki has never read the Gold Digger comic, this is her first time reading them. We are up to episode 5 and she is loving the comic, loving the characters, the humor, loving the story Fred is writing.

I would invite everyone to come give the podcast a listen. Starting with episode 6, I’ll be able to provide links to where people can read or view the comic we would be reviewing for the current episode.

Here is a link for the podcast on spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/show/6KW9t.....SoCQxxXSthZyDQ

I haven't been very active lately. A lot of stuff has been going on in my life.

Even with the recession going on, my job is still going strong. They have just cut back on over time, but tightened their belts moving people around into the areas of the factory that is making them the most money right now. We are trying to do more with less people, along with saying productive. Hopefully that keeps up until the recession is over with.

The big thing is my health has been wavering. I have been having long day's where I have been feeling tired, run down. Like normal, there are always good and bad days. I think part of my life long genetic liver disorder I was born with.

I also been having some problems with my vision. I first thought it was just my glasses, needing a new pair. It wasn't until this Thanksgiving weekend that I noticed something as I was working on the computer working on some art work. I noticed there was a spot in my vision that was distorted my vision. The spot was in my right eyes vision. It made drawing really hard when looking at lines on the page would have a bend in them that would move if I moved my eye over them. I got an appointment with an optometrist to check my vision. I did need new glasses, but the optometrist did find something, a spot of scar tissue on my retina. I have to go see a retina special now to check to see if the spot is something that can be healed, or something permanent.

My biggest fear is that the spot, scar tissue the optometrist found may be something that is going to be growing and I may lose the vision in that eye. I'll find out later this week.

Just letting everyone know I'll be out of the country for the next 2 weeks. This is a trip that has been on hold for the past 2 years. My family had been playing to go to Germany back in 2020. We all know what happened that year. The big trip was put on hold until now. With me being out of the USA I don't know how much I'm be able to get online or able to work on any drawings with my family being so close on this trip. I'll see everyone when I get back.

Things have been a little rough with me the past few months. Work has been busy, health not the best, but with all that I have been trying to slowly work on new stuff and came back some.

That was until last Saturday, the day before Father's Day. My last living Grandparent, my Grandmother, took her last breath and crossed over to the other side to be with her loving husbands, my grandfather that passed away years ago. This is a bittersweet thing for the family. Grandma has been in bad health for a while, we know that her time was come soon, a few months to weeks, it was just the big waiting game with her to make her last days comfortable. Even thou the family is happy that grandma is no longer in pain, it's still a sad time that she has passed away. We have had time to prepare for her passing, but its still hurts knowing she is not going to be here any more.

At this time I need to be there for my mother to help her deal with the lost of her mother. Dealing with my Grandmothers affairs', the funeral, the cleaning of my Grandmothers house, who's getting what of her belongings, stuff like.

I'm still trying to work on stuff when I can, I just have to put family first right now. I hope people will understand and will be patient with me as I deal with all this.

Thanks.

I want to send out an invitation to anyone that would like to join my little discord group "Vore Lab". If you like my artwork and work little to chat with other vore people come on over and join. It's a semi active group, I'm trying to be more active with it in the future.

I hope the link below works for anyone that wants to join. If it doesn't let me know and I'll about sending you a personal one or finding a different better link.

https://discord.gg/5cqZBs4ZJb

Today January 26th marks my 42th year on planet Earth. I don't really have any big plans for the day, but will see what happens.

I may have a birthday drawing to post later today.