Next weekend, from the 10th until the 21st of May, I will be leaving abroad. I will be traveling to the UK, only to London, and then to Ireland for the remainder of two weeks. I will be visiting a ton of places, so don’t expect new content until I get back. But I’ll share a bunch of new photos once I’m there, if I can be able to stick around for a little bit!

~ TheEnderToonist 2025

Hello everyone! I know this was some kind of a not too average post, but I wanted to share my updates and what I’ve been doing this first portion of the year.

A ton has been going on with me lately, as well with my family, which is why I haven’t posted anything regarding the Kaleo Fox Graphic Comic #1 - Strike Out and other animation tests lately. I am going to be real with y’all, like I said, I’m not intending on quitting social media or anything, it’s that I find it a real strain to post or freelance on these social media forms every day, including DeviantART, Newgrounds, Instagram and Bluesky. It’s not fun anymore due to how time consuming art is just for likes, shares and clout. You figure why a ton of stuff is happening to me? Not only I focus on outside activities like cycling, hiking and working out, but I also had to fight tooth and nail to get professional jobs in my field, but so far not only there are jobs that may not be a good fit for my skills, but also jobs I applied to don’t hear me back. It’s quite common these days due to the job market going down and all that snuff. Speaking about other hobbies outside the internet, to me, these activities as mentioned, like going out to nature is more important than just sitting behind a screen. I feel that social media can make people act up and get into wrongdoings, with growing egos, greed, envy, and lust, which in return diminish creativity. When you spend too much time posting something, or post every day to get more “views” and whatnot, it doesn’t end too well. That is why taking frequent breaks and maybe schedule a time to post is crucial, rather than just rushing a piece every day with other things in the way. And not to mention the algorithms make it harder to reach to a wider audience, and we can’t enjoy posting art at these days, but of course we all know that begging for likes, comments and shares can be counterproductive, especially to the viewers who may find it annoying. Someday I might have to make my own website for artworks, concept arts, animations, blog posts, and commissions called PlaToon Studios, even if I already have a portfolio site under my name, despite it taking trial and error, but who knows if social media could get even more bare bones?

Update on the Kaleo Fox #1 - Strike Out: You probably wonder why I haven’t posted regarding the graphic novel I mentioned earlier last winter. I feel unmotivated to progress through Kaleo Fox - Strike Out, due to a lack of interest, confusion on how the story will go, contradictions with scenes to make up the story triangle, and too much frame meddling. Maybe I will make the first comic book issue, but it’ll most likely contain three or four episodes on this one, much like a mini-series/strip show in part (like Western animated shows back in the day have their own strip shows as part of toy sales and whatnot, but I don’t usually focus on toy sales). But I am not sure if the first pilot episode will be intentionally a 30-60 page graphic novel, I mean others like Serafina Skunk and The Mammal Spies. Speaking about The Mammal Spies, I haven’t done drawings and artworks for a long time. I will get to redesigning characters and possibly the whole lore soon, if improvement is key, and when I will come back to making more Mammal Spies content.

A few months since graduation from university, I am finally starting new animation tests now, with a Kaleo Fox short animatic in the works. However, these take long, depending on the best possible visual creative route I should take, and if I don’t get so bored from stress that I always drift off into space. I also have plans on my list for the year, depending on how my work-life balance goes:

1. Kaleo Fox - Where Do I Go? (Animatic)(IN PROGRESS)
2. Kaleo Fox’s Introduction (Lip-Sync Test)
3. Jabez Jackal Animation Test
4. Kaleo Fox’s Walk Cycle (Animation Test)
5. Never Spy My Plan!! (Grosso Skunk Animatic)
6. Big Ferocious Dog (Kaleo Fox Animatic)
7. Kaleo Fox’s Wildtake (Animatic)
8. Whitzer Wolf’s Explosive Experiment (Animatic)
9. I’m Da Great Masked Offender! (Parodic Animatic)(POSSIBLE)

There will be more to come if I’m done with these animatics, depending on how my 2D animation skills will go further. Regarding 3D, I have Kaleo Fox’s house in progress, which will be used with Maya. As my Autodesk student subscription will expire by the end of August, I will have to export the whole process into Blender, which I am learning how it works because it’s a different workspace compared to Maya’s. Not sure how long it will take, but hopefully I might have it done by the end of summer, or midsummer, depending on what events are happening. I will let you guys know how it will work and if it is ready to be posted.

And when the time is right and if I’m feeling well off, I will be making more works now. It doesn’t mean Kaleo Fox - Strike Out will be next, or cancelled permanently, but I just wanted to let any of you folks know what’s going on regarding personal matters, why I only post digital artworks and the Kaleo Fox Webcomix quite frequently and my realization with social media and how it can affect me as a cartoonist. If you would like to hear more about the series I’m planning to make, here are the episodes I have in mind, for strip show/graphic novel only. I will adapt them to TV show episodes, but this will be for the far future, if we get our hopes high for indie animation to flourish at some point.

(For the updated version of the Strike Out graphic novel cover, with the mention of Other Stories)

1. Kaleo Fox Episode 1 - Strike Out (RESTARTED)
2. Kaleo Fox Episode 2 - Stinky Stupid Skunk In Town
3. Kaleo Fox Episode 3 - Good Fox, Evil Fox
4. Kaleo Fox Episode 4 - Rocket Science Fail

Since I am getting more commissions underway, I will be closing commissions for a while until I get caught up with finishing them. But I may update the commission prices to make them a bit more affordable, as possible!

And so that is all the updates I have for now, have a good day! ^^

~ TheEnderToonist 2025

Hello everyone! A new Patreon of mine is currently in a bit of progress, as I left it for ten months, but a few months after my graduation from university, it’s now open to the public! I will have the membership tiers later, but for visual updates (same with Ko-Fi, the tier images need to be replaced). I will be posting a Kaleo Fox Webcomix collection up there if possible, depending on when the time is right, like if I post too often on there, and same goes with other recent and early artworks and illustrations that I haven’t put up there yet. But don’t worry! Most of the best improved ones will be added on there. For sketches, WIPs, and sneak peek previews prior to public release, these will be included only to my membership tiers, which I will add soon.

The reason I came to Patreon was that not only I get low traction on Ko-Fi, as it is a small platform on a fair plate, but I also wanted to make my career there. I know it’ll be the same method just like Ko-Fi, but I believe there are some more options for me, such as adding collections of my series and vice versa. For now, I hope you get a chance to take a look at my Patreon and see what’s there, because there is more to come.

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE LINK TO MY PATREON DOWN BELOW:

https://patreon.com/TheEnderToonist?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

Thank you for reading this, and I hope you have a wonderful day/night!

~ TheEnderToonist 2025

We are almost at 100 fans, only one more left! Thank you guys so much for supporting me and my works on Newgrounds, as I am coming a long way ahead with improvement of my skills and taking time with plans! Peace out! ✌️

~ TheEnderToonist 2025

Hello everyone! I am planning to go to FurTheMore this weekend, since I have my ticket with me, which I hope it will be valid! The last year I paid to go there, but the staff ask for a third booster shot, so I had to wait until this year to see a furry convention for the first time in my entire life. Expect some nose boops there. Ü

If any of you know me and plan to visit the convention, whether you wear a fur suit or not, please be sure to see me there!

Cheers and have a great day! 👋 

~ TheEnderToonist 2025

Hey everyone! It looks like a high wind warning has been issued in my area until 10 PM! It looks like I may lose power at some point, if they get way too strong above 30-40 mph. I might be able to draw on my tablet in the dark, but obviously it needs electricity as it is an electronic device, and there won’t be much time left, until the power will go back on. And not to mention I would still have internet on my phone, like wireless, but without the internet router. (At least my tablet would have an air option for my wireless data) Yes, my lights are still on, it’s just flickering off and on every so often, which distracts me. Around the morning hours until the afternoon hours, the winds would still remain strong until they dissipate. Please pray that I will stay safe in this weather! If you live around here in the US, like the Northeast part of the country, and you have strong winds affecting your location, please stay safe and strong out there!

UPDATE 17-2-2025: Good news! My electricity didn’t go out, the winds weren’t strong today and last night as I expected yesterday, way past the high wind warning!

~ TheEnderToonist 2025

Link to my Thanksgiving art: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/theendertoonist/kaleo-fox-turkey-treachery-thanksgiving

So, I am seeing my latest Thanksgiving artwork a four out of ten stars, coming from a Google search. Like, scratching my head, hm? Is there something wrong with this piece, or is it normal to get rated with an inconsistent bullshit rating, with the site going on a different route than it was back in the day? I know the star ratings are not close to five more people yet, and that’s totally fine, which is why I couldn’t see on Newgrounds, and I know I’m not like a sensitive, soft person who can’t take criticism without throwing a fit, but…I’d say I’m quite surprised. And stunned too. People should review art, animations and music based on their art and not just rage bait.

Here is another piece of mine which gets bombed to about 2/10 stars (again, coming from a Google search, not specifically Newgrounds itself), which is Grosso Skunk as a clown, made in January 2024. I’m like, why? Why would you do this without having to review it? If you don’t like it, please say what you want to say, maybe give me a fair reason or criticism why you don’t like it, and I will understand. I’m not saying to make hate posts out of trolls and vice versa, but strictly speaking, if it’s constructive criticism, I would accept it so I could try to either fix this or best to try hard next time, but no trolling or typical hate comments should be on the get-go, cuz it’s unhealthy and can ruin one’s reputation. Maybe I guess I should try a little bit harder to make things more spicy, but at least I’m seeing that my art is becoming a tad more different than I was at the start of 2024.

If any of this is true, please pass me a fair share of constructive criticism, reasons or opinions. I would appreciate it so I will learn and grow from any mishaps or what needs to be improved.

And finally, to say the very least with haters and trolls that don’t like what people like, well, as some people say, haters gonna hate! The best way to handle the haters, is just ignore them. So maybe I should ignore and maybe block these trolls and move on with my life. Artists, animators, musicians and sound designers should not have to put up with this shit. Remember to review art thoughtfully, and not just on how to bomb it with these sorts of weird acts. Because the star rating isn’t just enough, the art would need to have a comment or a piece of criticism too.

Have a nice day! And stay safe and consistent out there!

~ TheEnderToonist 2024

Bonjour, everyone!

Tomorrow I am going to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which will be my first solo vacation outside of the United States. 🇨🇦 I will be staying at a hostel for four nights. There is a chance I will take a break from social media for a week, since I’m going to get busy, especially me paying a visit for the attractions. Unless if I plan to send photos to my Discord servers or to a few places of my social media (if I feel like it, but with watermarks needed, since I don’t like what Instagram and X are doing to steal people’s pictures using Meta AI and Grok), I will be taking a break from doodling. When I have nothing to do in the evenings (or in the mornings), I can try to start a Kaleo Fox webcomic as early as I can. Other than that, this week will be my break until Friday.

Stay safe, guys! Please wish me a good travel, and au revoir! 👋

~ TheEnderToonist 2024

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I have to repeatedly say this all over again, but, I’m really sorry for the causes of my mental state, my anxiety that’s been lingering in me in a series of ups and downs, my stressful impulses. For these and other reasons which I have explained before, I couldn’t travel to Europe this summer for more places I can find what’s best for any concept of my series and a differentiation of culture. So the only choice I have left in me is to go to Canada this August, which I have already planned. I’m hoping it will happen before classes start at the end of August. I haven’t had a summer vacation since last semester, not even a solo venture to a different country. And it boggles my mind instantly on how much people spend so much on traveling, regardless of where they are at. Vacations are good for me, unless if it all depends on going with a family of mine. It’s not easy to get out jealousy, pain, melancholy and the deteriorating mental health which is taking a toll on me, from college, social media to not getting something I want in reward. It sort of feels a saying that’s spread like the word: “You work yourself to death.” Or “You keep working until you die.” I don’t want to end up in bad karma, especially to those who are around me, no matter what side anyone picks on. Have I been going insane inside? Is there a war inside of my head? These intrusive thoughts have been lingering in me, displaying signs of hostility, menace, hatred and impatience, which I all of a sudden thought that this could lead to end of friendships, and eventually, getting cancelled and reported. This will show that I have the true colors to be discovered. Again, I ask myself, will I go to heaven? Or will I end up in an endless void of everything mundane, lacking quality and delights thereof, which to me, makes me feel ashamed to the point I wasn’t raised here? It seems to me, all these things are just vast modern dystopian nothingness, but later realizing I’m not the only one who sees or imagines this. I try so hard to gain attention, but the thing is, I’m not alone here. I try to overcome and hide the dark side of me, but it any case it is killing me inside. Even being too pushy and manipulative can kill me even more inside. Even if people are busy, which it may be hard for me to realize and just get over with to avoid hot water.

What put me this way is my impatience, which leads to arguments and fights, and of course, getting looked down upon. It’s as if I’m running out of time, from what’s kicking me around. There was one time where I intentionally blew up out of impatience, but I apologized. People treat me differently, but mistakes lead to an impending doom in life, that’s what gives me the least of my concerns. I realize what bad it can do, and it won’t get me any further. I had to watch myself from causing harm, but all these thoughts inside are telling me to do the wrong things, which I don’t want to do. 

“Alex, you really should seek professional help.”

Or: 

“But Ender, I think you should seek a therapist to help you.”

To answer your statements (which I try to make up from remembering what I saw in the past few weeks), I’m not sure if I would get professional help, like therapy, unless if there is one I can find on campus. When I told my stepdad that I should seek therapy to get rid of the negativity inside of me, he told me that therapy is useless, and he said that cycling, swimming and working out are my therapists. Yes, I do them, and these help get rid of the pain for a while, but eventually, they come back to me. I don’t know what I would say at this point, but decisive, descriptive thoughts do always come back to me, especially in times of need or sometimes urgency. And that leads to being a manipulative jerk, which I said before on the previous paragraphs, and like I said, it can kill my potential worth. And I know that being popular is not my thing. When you get popular, on one hand you get the fans, but on the other hand, you get haters who try to mess your life up. I should clearly move on and do my own things without getting looked down upon, if building my worth is the key to success. It doesn’t come on a silver platter in a few seconds, it just takes time. And that’s what I need to keep learning in order to be a good man.

I didn’t have time to work on a new Kaleo Fox graphic novel as well, due to not only my panic attacks, but due to job searching, which these things didn’t work out, but eventually in a miracle. Eventually I landed in a remote job, so I’m basically kind of in good hands for now. There’s another thing regarding an internship, and it’s an agency. I thought that I didn’t have time to do this, now with my last fall term in demand at honors university, but I had to sign under checks too. I wanted to study for a masters degree after graduation, but with the other internship to be questioned about, who knows? My mother of course responds, “We’re not at the last minute of jotting this down”. So it means we still have time to decide? If so, I hope this will lower down my stress levels, when it all comes to punching the only choice that’s up to me. At first I wanted to start a Kaleo Fox graphic novel, but in turn either things don’t work out for me due to other priorities that keep me busy. The reason I want to start a full scale comic with a story that builds up ground, is because I don’t want to just plod away on webcomics (you know, like Sunday comic strips, digital and traditional as you’ve seen in newspapers or on the web) I made a new Kaleo Fox Discord server for anyone who is interested in tuning in, and for anyone who can help me make ideas for the series even better. Because so far, I feel that my new series are not working out. It just feels…like nothing. It’s as if filler comes down with a creative demon trying to impale my mind. And it all goes with other things, as I mentioned before. So, apologies for not getting back to which I have promised, but either it may wait under delay, or maybe find time to work on a couple pages. I’m not sure if I could show the first full pages, it is going to be a long one and I may either show full the finished parts or show Work In Progress shots of the graphic novel that I’ve been thinking about. 

And once again, I owe you all a sincere apology. It’s all due to my mental health declining from stress, anxiety, despair, depression and getting pushed to do things by verbal force. I hope each of you can forgive me for all these bad causes which I am trying to hide, including manipulation, recklessness, name calling (which I don’t do in public) and bad karma. I might take a break from social media if I plan to go on vacation to Canada for a few days, if it all works out. It might be my first baby steps for me to go on an air flight there and back, since I never flew to a different country overseas alone before, but who knows? I may figure it out if I learn how it all works.

That said, thank you for reading this confession. I know this is a very long blog post, but I just needed to make a confession about me and what went wrong. I wanted to make this clear, and I hope you all understand what I am making out of it.

See ya guys. I hope you can forgive me for all of these things which don’t make me grow as a unique person.

~ TheEnderToonist 2024

Hello everyone. I’ve been trying to set up my new RedBubble account to sell some of my works in any merchandise. Turns out the only problem I have is when I try to verify my phone number to “open my shop”, it brings me to an error that says “Please verify your phone number.” Heck, my phone number was correct! It’s that it’s all wrong, and it’s not my fault. It’s the wrong way to show it! I had to send a ticket to the team about fixing this issue and they sent me this (based on the image I had to put out there). So that leaves me no choice. Any artwork selling alternatives out there? I feel like closing my account and my shop temporarily because RedBubble is full of lazy bastards that will not fix their site and their issues. I’m literally done with this site, and I’m looking to Etsy, Patreon or maybe some donation site (whatever). For all this, I might not use this website anymore. It all doesn’t make sense. They should have workarounds, and so far, they don’t even care.

Oh, and I heard that the merchandise on Redbubble has cheap materials, in which some of the print is gone, for example, on a T-shirt. Heck the quality can be detrimental, and it may be an online scam! Is that true? If that’s the case, then that’s another reason why I would never touch Redbubble again! And if you don’t know about me, I’m in a rush or in full anxiety mode because I’m trying to find a job that pays well enough for me, and so far, not one of them are available, I think. I just have to keep looking more around my area. And I’m in a salty mood too! I’m trying to find ways to make money but so far there are big bumps on the road to get across.

Concerns and suggestions, guys?

~ TheEnderToonist 2024