Soda

Soda, also known as Ampelus, formerly as Paolo, Yves-Alphonse and Miles Feral (Born 1988), is a furry artist who lives in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Biography
Soda a former licensed educator in Georgia and Illinois, but now he works as an IT network/systems administrator. . His interests include surfing and linguistics. Soda is polyamorous and lives with his non-furry husband.

Fandom Involvement
Soda used to code for various furry MUDs in the late nineties including FurryMUSH. He attributes his initial interest in the fandom to the art of artists Fel, Greenmonkey, and Fennec, as well as furry-themed MUDs.

He expressed interest in creating an online furry art circle, and even try to do so briefly with fellow furry artists Narffet, INoby, Keglunek, and coder BearPatrol under the domain name EatGlitter.com in 2009. However, a lack of free time kept him from maintaining the webspace, and the project was postponed indefinitely. Soda has since said that he:

Soda posts Murrsuit pinups in his partial suit on his Twitter account.

Fursona
Soda's fursona is a bright red Cherry Soda-themed fox (a Sodapup), with white and black markings.

His former fursona was a primate named Paolo.

Convention attendance

 * Furry Weekend Atlanta - 2007, 2008
 * Midwest Furfest - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
 * FurFright - 2012
 * RainFurrest - 2014

Art
Soda has gone under various artist pseudonyms while in the fandom since the late nineties including Miles Feral (an otter) on VLC, and Yves-Alphonse (a blue lemur) on Fur Affinity. His works have been largely homoerotic in nature.

He began taking commissions after he created a Fur Affinity account as Paolo in 2008. He accredits his own artistic style to inspiration from Japanese comic books, primarily the genre shotacon. His preferred art tools include Photoshop, SAI, and Wacom Intuos tablets.

Media

 * Soda dancing in partial suit on YouTube