Hello lovely followers!

I haven't been updating this page in a while so I might just write a few words.
My life is finally in order enough to get actively back to art. My to-do list is FINALLY cleared after long years of being totally stuck with life. You can check out a huge new piece on my alternative profile here https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52205129/ I think I will continue using both Bluari and Lehowa profiles for now, as two separate projects if you will. Sorry for the possible confusion, maybe I need to figure myself out just by DOING sh** and it will just happen naturally. Most importantly I'm back to doing stuff.

My Twitter is back up, Bluari for more furry/toony related art https://twitter.com/Bluariart
and Lehowa for general fantasy https://twitter.com/TheLehowa

I'm also active on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelehowa/

and on Telegram https://t.me/lehowa
I have also recently opened the group chat to the public https://t.me/Lehowasminions

I plan to reopen commissions at some point. I will start from some simple headshots and will be adding more options as time go by and I become more comfortable with completing art with a specific deadline.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day :3
Bluari

Hello everyone!
How are you doing?

I'm casually trying to sell my fursuit. There are just several problems - it's at my parents' place in Poland now and I live in Scotland, it's a fragile resin base head and it is a used fursuit(however in great shape) that's very tight fit so either only a person of my body shape can wear ir or it will need adjustments.
My main reason for selling is that the transport of this thing is more problematic for me than any joy from fursuiting.
Anyway, I'm collecting opinions. Especially if you know a good forum, Telegram channel, Facebook group or any place where I could post this ad, I would appreciate if you could link it to me.

The photo of it is on my Telegram, here https://t.me/lehowa

It's rather comfy even though it's made of fur that is not stretchy at all. Therefore I suppose it will fit only a rather narrow range of body types, roughly european size S - M, shoe size european 39, fits a 165 - 170cm tall person.
Because of the fur not being stretchy, you might need a person to help you out while putting it on (I have managed by myself but it was easier to have help, and now it BARELY fits my fat ass, hehe)
I am a second owner of it, first owner wore it a handful of times, I did a bit more, even on furdances.
It was only worn over cotton clothing so it's relatively clean.
The tail has a nice bounce to it.
The pattern on fur is airbrushed.
The head is resin based, it has a good ventilation but it is very fragile. In fact the jaw was already broken but fixed very well since and it only show on the inside.
The jaw moves slightly with yours.
The hand paws are just like simple wrist-long gloves and very rough on the edges so that will probably need some fix.

I'm not really up to date with current prices for fursuits. After a short research I think I would want around £2000 for it but it's not set in stone yet, I just honestly don't know if it's too little, too much or just okay.

If you are interested, please let me know, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask. I have bigger photos of it, just don't know in which folder, I need to look around... Because I don't have it now, it wont be a fast sale, and at the moment I am unable to make any new photos or measure it. I am going to Gdakon in 2023 which takes place from 1st to 5th March so around that time I can make better photos. Or obviously if you're going too, you will be able to see it in person then.

Please tell me what you think!

* * *

I just wanted to post this ad and disappear again. But you all deserve at least an update why I was gone again.
So long story short, the only predictable thing about life is that life is unpredictable. I needed to get back to working fulltime in order to be able to rent a place to live. Yes, a new one. Before that I got an offer to enroll in a HR course for some additional plan B qualification in case art wont work ever. At the time I thought it will be easy, just a formality, and my employer was paying 95% of it so why not. But it ended up taking more work and time than I thought. So all together, fulltime job, flat-hunting and the course left me almost out of free time during the past 6 months. And to think that I was already on track to finish old commissions and start anew....
HOWEVER ON A POSITIVE NOTE. Given my previous massive burnout, I still feel excited for doing art, it's not anymore a matter of lack of motivation, I just need to make time and space for it. I do have my own place now and the course is officially ending on 13th December but I should be done with it sooner. So things are looking good in general.
I feel stupid posting more of these journal entries than art. I really feel like a failed artist sometimes. But that's life I suppose, I'm still moving forward.

Thanks for reading and take care! <3
-Bluari

 lehowa

Thanks everyone for watches, faves and all the support I got through the years, it continues to blow my mind that people like my scribbles this much. Ahh, I’m getting sentimental thinking about this. My Bluari chapter was an amazing ride, inevitably cut short much sooner than it should. Under this name I experienced my first conventions and my little bit of fame that, I have to admit, was going to my head too much sometimes. But the end taught me so much, about myself and a proper work ethic.

Sorry if it causes confusion for anyone. I know from my own experience how names of regular artists create a mush in my brain, I don’t recall following someone sometimes.

You can still call me Bluari on the new profile, I don’t mind <3.

Even two days ago, I sat down to post that first artwork and make everything official and I hesitated again and didn’t do anything. I did yesterday and, as soon as I saw that new page coming to life, it felt as the right decision.

I hope you will be willing to continue following me on the new account. Bluari will stay in use but I already think of Lehowa as my main project. That’s what it is, a new project. I like to think of Lehowa as more serious, more professional, anthro will continue, symbolism, paganism, historical themes and high fantasy will continue. Bluari will be like a happy artdump, for toony stuff, yiffies, chibies, Pokemon and styles and artworks just for fun or experiments that went off the rails.

The art that I was making over the years is pretty far from what I would like it to look like. It seems like I will be experimenting with style for a lot longer. Putting everything on one account just hurt my recognition because I don’t attract neither group of potential followers. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s social media marketing. You open some profile and you take a few seconds to make out what it is about, how it differs from others and if you want to continue interacting with it or not. That’s why you read tips from artists to keep social media profiles visually uniform, it helps recognition.

I was thinking about starting with a new name since 2017 or 16. I didn’t want to loose followers though and, above all, I wasn’t sure if changing accounts will solve my problem. Ever since I started posting drawings on the Internet I had numerous different aliases and accounts and none could ever stick. With Bluari I realised – with time I start to dislike everything that’s me, and that’s at the root of everything. It’s the same kind of reluctance some people have with taking photos of themselves. Same was with the fursona I once had. This nymph running through forests, flowing hair everywhere, I realised that it is how I want to see myself and not how I actually do. So if everything is in my head and the problem is me then I can have hundred new beginnings and it will all be the same. Better just stick with Bluari and don’t overthink it. Or use real life name(boring as f.) The "new project" way of looking at starting a new account became my definitive reason.

There are also several people who had and have aliases with -ari at the end and I assumed this similarity will again be bad for recognition. There is even some bloke with exactly the same nick, Bluari, you can Google him, not furry, just some content creator.

Lastly, even though probably most of it is in my head, Bluari have so much weight on it. You know, those things that you did or said in the past which you will never take back and which keep you awake at night during especially severe generalised anxiety episodes? Yeah, those happy times. And I don’t mean what happened last year. I mean five years ago. Go, team anxiety.

I probably won’t be doing any reposts of older art this time, enough of this reheating old porkchops, you know.

Again, thanks for all your love and I'm looking forward to the future <3

My last journal entry was 8 months ago, it feels like it was... not so much, time flies by so fast...
Anyway, how's it going, peeps?
I am super busy but happy busy. Just enjoying college and waiting for it to end because I just want to draw. Everytime I say it I feel like I'm jinxing it but I didn't enjoy drawing so much in a long time now. Been practicing some humans lately but I feel these drawings are so mediocre, I don't want to show it x'D.

I started a Telegram channel because why not, you can check it out here https://t.me/lehowa
For the last time I was reheating some old porkchops, I mean reposting old artwork, just to start that channel with something, so please scroll past that and enjoy! I am half way through a big pencil piece so you probably do wanna check out that link :D

Thanks and welcome to all the new people watching me! How do you even find me?! That's amazing!
Love you all <3
Bluari

In short: hooray, I’m back xD again! And thanks a lot for watching me, new watchers!

To start from art related things.

I told myself I wont update journal until I have another piece finished. So here it is and yes, another big piece is coming, I’m just finishing second character, then background and it’s done(and you can see some wips here https://twitter.com/lehowa_bluari ). I didn’t want to say another “hooray, I’m back” and then go silent after few months again because life. But it’s time to start multitasking and scheduling. Do art on the side of a day job so it can grow to a full time occupation - I finally got that one right! I tried to do the other way around and you can see where I am now.
This year my biggest hold back from art was that I started college, I have one year left so from September I hope I will be able to post some drawings every now and then.

I have happily restored in full my will to do art, I have a few things planned for the closest future. First and foremost I want to switch from big, scarce posts to small, frequent posts(not lesser in quality, just simpler) and I am closing complex commissions(especially traditional ones) indefinitely. It’s just something that takes a lot of time and effort and, in my opinion, the outcomes are not that impressive. Of course my to-do and waiting lists will be cleared as normal. Also if you are a person who ever talked with me about some piece, please get in touch and I will make sure you’re waiting and hoping was not in vain.
I just need to get more efficient with those complex works, so I still will be making them, just the level of pressure with a personal painting is much different than with a commission. I want to do some series that I can later put in a neat artbook and sell, maybe I’ll get back to that ethnic anthros that I was making back when I joined FA. I will make smaller commissions for sure, like sketches, speedpaints, digitals, something that I can complete in max. 2 days and I’m pretty excited about that, you guys have so awesome characters. Eventually I want to do Iron Artist as well and I will post YCHs too.
Finally I have plans for a medium length comic, probably set in a fantasy prehistoric-like setting. Back in the day of wolf comics on DeviantArt I have created some characters and written some ideas, I think it might be a nice practice for something bigger.
But surely the to-do list comes first.

Again, if you are a person who ever talked with me about some commission, please get in touch and I will make sure you’re waiting was not in vain.

Now if you want to know about a random person’s life, read on.

As some of you already know I had a few years of ups and downs and I more or less figured out why. In short, I got out of the two major authorities in a young person’s life. The education system’s, because I graduated and my parents’, because I moved to live on my own, and I found myself free to do everything and anything I wanted. And that’s where I got paralysed. All my demons, that I didn’t really had to face before, went to the surface and instead of living a dream of being in early 20ties and on your own, I was just surviving until the next day. I did some travelling, I had some jobs but for the potentially most productive years of a person’s life, I don’t feel like I’ve done anything. Except sorting out my demons which is better later than ever , I suppose, so I’m trying not to dwell too much on the past. Especially that now I’ve done all of it - I got a permanent job, I have a hobby/dream job to be, I’m in a relationship, I eat my breakfasts and I clean my room(I even fold my underwear before I put it in a drawer and you don’t know how satisfying that is until you try it yourself!). I am bragging about this because what I thought was depression went away about a year ago. Sort out your life at it’s core aspects, take responsibility for what is happening to you – that’s your cure for being a miserable shadow of a human being. It’s sad that I needed to learn this from strangers on YouTube instead of my own family and school.

I probably have already said somewhere that I had problems self motivating. As, it was almost non existing. I would sit at some art and I would get discouraged after half an hour. I don’t have that any more. I just made this whole big drawing feeling engaged some 90% of the time, I haven’t felt this together in a very long time. However I do have a lot of breaks, either my part time job or my partner taking me out for cycling so maybe that’s the trick, to not spend too much time sitting at a desk and not moving any part of the body except for an arm.

I don’t know how to end. I never know how to end journals, have a good day and again thanks for watching and I will get back to art now!
Take care!
-B.

Hello guys! Long time no see.

I continue slowly working on art, everything is on it's way.

In the meantime. Because I will be on holiday in Poland to visit my family I thought... why not going to Eurofurrence while I'm there? You know, Berlin is four and a half hour car ride away from my home town, plus many of my great friends are comming, plus they are comming from my home town too and we can stay at same hotel, plus I don't know if I will be able to attend next year so it would actually be stupid not to go!!

I am not going for either the Dealers Den or even the Art Show because it's not only too late to participate but I don't even have any new art. However I will be staying in the Artist Alley to make a maaaaassive sale of most of my merch so please come check it out, I seriously want ALL of it GONE. Why am I doing this. I don't plan to go back to dealing at conventions any time soon but if I do, I want to start completely fresh, with all art and merch new and applying everything I've learned so far about producing merch. Or just come say hi, that will be nice too :).
Aside from that, I'm only comming to have a big nice party, drink with everyone, dance with everyone and have the best time of my life :)

See you there, hopefully
Bluari

Hello!

Eurofurence is long gone but I still have some stuff left to sell. Because I'm still with my family in Poland I can offer you cheaper shipment on everything but only until 27th September. So please take a look at what I got and order now while the stock is full :D

Prices below are without shipping!
Depends on where you want it shipped, it should be about 5 - 10$.


ORIGINAL ART

Deer, watercolour, with passe partout(it's that cardboard thingie around) 90$ http://www.furaffinity.net/view/27866796/

Fox, watercolour, with passe partout 90$ http://www.furaffinity.net/view/27864056/

Shaman guy, acrylic on linen canvas, framed! 190$
https://sta.sh/01w8pfb1dwn, https://sta.sh/0qc881vyr1w
gallery http://www.furaffinity.net/view/27933274/


VINYL STICKERS 5cm x 5cm 2$, 4th free!

AWOO! https://sta.sh/0y7efafw2fp

Snowleopard noming it's tail https://sta.sh/0g769wgyg1f

Red dragon https://sta.sh/025cwza27pt

Cosmic dragon https://sta.sh/0wap69yix9w


ACRYLIC AND WOODEN CHARMS 6$

Four of each colour designs on both materials
Choose a keyring, single metal ring, or nothing at all

Wooden
antique bronze keychain https://sta.sh/0pvxg8aasyd
steel keychain https://sta.sh/04mof6u1axx

Acrylic metalic
steel keychain https://sta.sh/01h2be9uu9kj
steel lobster clasp https://sta.sh/01bnngh5142d

single steel ring https://sta.sh/01904hcdosrk
other shot of both https://sta.sh/0b2xpuijtvm

(Yes, these are the cats that I wanted to put on enamel pins, I failed to do it in time. The project is not scraped though, I will do it sometime in the future)


MAGNETS 4$

Kiss the cook, 9cm x 9cm, handmade and laminated
https://sta.sh/01zk7p0bxl9z
back https://sta.sh/01yfiauchgz3
gallery http://www.furaffinity.net/view/23634312/
Only 2 left!


I also have regular A4 prints of the most popular images for 6$, but I don't have them mounted yet. Ask me if your interested.


Thanks for looking and please ask if you have any questions!

Finally merch prepared... mostly... I'm so stressed about all this, was working constantly for the past month. Maybe the meme will help me get in the party mood.


Where are you staying?
At a private flat

Means of transportation?
a car

Sharing a room with:
noone from the fandom xD

What is your gender?
female

Relationship Status:
taken

How old are you?
was I 26 or 7 already... I think it was 7, gods I'm old

How tall are you?
165cm

Which languages do you speak?
English, Polish, I understand some German

Where will you be most of the time during the day?
DD and then no idea, parties would be best scenario

Who will you be with?
we'll see

Do you do free art?
don't count on it, especially that I don't like to draw on cons, you could probably bribe me with drinks though, because I'm a drinkie like that

Do you do trades?
I love trades, but I don't like to draw on cons

Do you do commissions?
I might take 2 or 3. I am on DD all by myself, don't have an assistant so will probably be super tired for anything else than parties
If you are interested in sketch commissions please contact me now so I can do it before the con <3

Do you have prints/ CDs?
a ton of prints, originals, charms, keychains, stickers and magnets

What suit(s) will you have?
probably I'll just wear my human skin, no luggage space left

Can I dance with you?
if I go dancing sure x'D

Can I touch you?
no please, not too furry-like but I'm not even a fan of hugs with strangers

Can I talk to you?
sure c:

Can I hug you?
unless you're a good friend. How can you know if you're a good friend? Exactly

Can I take photos of you/with you?
Only if you want to keep them for yourself, no Facebook, etc

Can I buy you lots of drinks?
I'm a total drinkie so yes

Do you drink Alcohol/Smoke?
yes and yes

Can I give you lots of money?
that would be awkward but yes, I like money x'3 better come by my table and buy something <3

Can I hug or snuggle with you?
no and no please, my boyfriend probably wouldn't like that you know

Can we hang out?
yes please, last EF I was completely overwhelmed, I will gladly follow someone around

Are you nice?
I look grumpy most of the time but I'm nice once you get to know me. So please don't be afraid of the grump ^^

Other cons you may go to?
Futerkon a week before EF, and in 2019 I'm planning nonfurry festivals

Attending any events?
If I wont have too much work with the Den. It would be a shame to miss the Pawpet show if it happens this year. Maybe I'll go to karaoke c:

How can I find you at the con?
In the Den here and I will try to look for messages at my Telegram and Twitter every now and then.

Can we go out for a dinner?
if you know any nice places :> but I will probably be taken by friends in this regard

Are you buying art?
I probably wont be able to resist.

What do I have to watch out for, when I am meeting you?
I tend to get moody at random, especially when I'm tired, but I'll try to be nice, I don't want to make a bad impression ^^

What is the best way to contact you?
Twitter crystalbluari and Telegram Bluari

May I kidnap you to my room?
for drinks and cookies yes

You look pretty tired, are you ok?
yea probably tired, and just grumpy ;D

Last time/last con/last meet/last chat we talked so much and now you forgot my name? Why???
I might not remember your name but if you tell me "we met at [insert con name] near that [insert description of the surroundings]" - I might remember that

Will you tell me your room-number and can I surprise visit you?
no, even if I wanted to, because it's someone's flat ^^'

I have a personal question for the convention. May I ask you that?
intriguing ;> sure


Hope to make the best out of this EF c:

Hello everyone!

I'm not doing this that often so I allowed myself to spam this little bit with advertising my friend and flatmate.

 arhoke-anu is open for commissions and is doing various YCH, all for very affordable prices and with fast completion. We will soon make an YCH together(her doing the lineart and me colouring I guess). She especially does lovely females, she's a little upset that all her YCHs go for male characters ^^, just let her draw bewbs!
Please check out her works, thanks from both of us!

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24810058/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18789768/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/27989851/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/20249496/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/27922508/

Hello everyone!
Old watchers, new watchers <3

I have established myself well back in arting. Started a little advertising campaign here on FA to announce widely that I am back(or not, I think I am, I hope - I'm not giving any promises anymore) so you will see my banner soon c:.

Life is busy(duh). I'm dealing at EF, I've moved recently, have to remove all four of my wisdom teeth and been reuniting with American part of my family(YES, as crazy and movie-like as it sounds!).

I am so excited about that moving. I used to work on traditional art on the floor(on a fluffy rug though), and on digital art at a coffee table(that setting works well only with gaming) and now I will have space for a proper fancy desk with lotsa proper day light, life is good. It has to be good.

And EUROFURENCE. I plan to have lots of stuff for Artshow and Dealer's Den, I have a table at the very entrance to the den(it's my first EF Den, btw!). Original art, prints and also for the first time buttons and charms, enamel pins, giclee matted prints - I'll try to produce as much awesome merch as possible, it only depends a bit on my finances now and time.

I WON'T be taking sketch commissions at the con though. I don't like drawing in the hussle of a con, I think my art is not that good, in comparison to what I can do at home, I don't want to miss on socialising with everyone and it's really, really exhausting to manage a Den table without an assistant for the whole day.
So please concider ordering now, if you are interested, I will have the original for you at my table, the pricelist is >here<, just please bear in mind that I'm not a next-day artist, the waiting time(for you to get a scan of the work, before the con) might be somewhat longish.

After EF I have big plans to start a series of something. I have comics in mind, or a series of illustrations for some topic, something that could utilise Patreon effectively. My life could just really use a freelancer job, I'm determined to make it happen. But for now EF is priority.

Thank you for the comments, faves and all the feedback! I always appretiate it, I love it, you are the best!
~Bluari

Hello c:

I am going to WUFF *hype!*. I will have some art in the Artshow but I wont be at the Dealer's Den. I can make some sketch commissions that you can pick up at the con, some smaller ones like here http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8321859/ Conntact me if you're interested, I can make a sliiight discount, but don't get too comfortable ;>.

In other news, I am working on new art, will tell about specifics when I directly get my hands on specific things, no more abstract talking.

Also I am going to Eurofurence 200%, will be at the Artshow, Dealer's Den and everywhere I can - but I will write another journal about it later, just saying for now.

Thanks for reading, take care <3

First of all, welcome new watchers who found me via stolen image on Second life ;], at least one good thing turned out of it.

Do people actually fall for this? Paying money to some random profile to buy stolen images from super well known artists like Blotch, Teiirka or Nomax to do what? Hang it in their Second life house? I dunno, I never played SL.

I know fighting art theft is chasing shadows but even such little thing make my blood boil when I'm fighting depression to make new art ;E.

Hello everyone!

First of all, I'd like to thank and welcome all the new watchers <3. I seriously don't know where you guys come from, when I don't post anything new for months, but I'm super glad you do. I don't even know when I've passed the milestone of 2000 watchers here. On places like dA it doesnt matter, but here 2000 people can't be wrong ♥ ♥ ♥.

I'm out of my previous job that was sucking all energy from me. I'm in the middle of planning and reevaluating things now. Most of all I've met an amazing human being who helps me find motivation again. I will be back soon.

-B

Hello. Until I get back on track with new art, I'm looking for a group, on Facebook perhaps, for discussing some convention ideas, say Europe area.
Like how to get some materials and what are best. Right now I'm looking to buy a badge making machine. Anyone know something nice, have some experience? Know a group where people might know?

To anyone waiting for anything, I'm sorry that it's taking so long and for the lack of updates. Life is hard at the moment.
I feel that I've hit rock bottom. There is nothing left what can keep me inspired for a moment longer than burning down a match. And I don't even feel particulary sad about it, rather neutral. The only tragedy in it is that it happened when I have commissions started, I cannot find any strength to tackle them. So that is why it's taking so long, I'm sorry.
I must pull myself together just to finnish them.

-B

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(at the moment I'm editing this journal. It will be fully accurate in several minutes. Thank you for understanding <3)

Hello!

It's last chance for you to get a commission slot in july and august. There are less types but a bit smaller prices and shipping fees and work will be done by end of august.

I can work in pencil, ink(marker) and acrylic paint(can be done on canvas or paper).

TYPES
fullbody traditional sketches 30-50£ 25-40£ example1 example3 example4 example5 example6

headshot sketches traditional 20£ 15£ example1 example2 example3 example4
headshots/badges traditional, 60-90£ 30-70£ example1 not a badge example but this is how I paint example3

traditional speedpaints 50-80£ 40-80£ approx. for fullbodies acrylic paint example<-note that this particular one is ginormous acrylic paint example ink and markers example1 ink and markers example2

SLOTS
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( sketching)
(payed, colouring)
1.
2. Kyubi
3. Marcy
4. Teiirka
5.

♦ Yes I do NSFW. Yes I will draw that image which just appeared in your head.
♦ Payment required upfront after the slot is confirmed, I use Paypal, I will note you the address once your slot is confirmed.
♦ Badges can be laminated.
♦ I can ship traditionals but you are covering the costs, it will be about 2-3 pounds for A4 size works
♦ I reserve the right to possibly make prints for sale of the commissioned work.
♦ All works should be done by end of august. I doubt I would take longer but because I deal very badly with deadlines, I can't guarantee.

~Bluari ♥




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I bet you do ;D

It's in a very early stage of planing, really just talking about it but we're working with  felidire on a nice big collaboration project and he asked me to spread the word around about this
http://www.strawpoll.me/13194821
http://www.strawpoll.me/13274147
These are two very short polls which combined wont even take 5 minutes of your time, thank you for participating <3.

As for updates. I've decided to change environment for the summer, I'm back at my parents' place in Poland. Took some work with me so commission work will continue. I will also announce soon some new ones for acrylic paintings so stay tuned c:. I hope I will also manage to paint something like that cosmic tiger from last year, just this time even bigger and better!

Bluari


♦ Patreon ♦ Gumroad ♦
Last.fm ♦ Tumblr art blog ♦ Tumblr personal blog ♦ Weasyl ♦ dA ♦ Twitter ♦ Facebook ♦ Instagram ♦ FurryNetwork

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Maybe this is obvious to some, maybe some have doubts about this like me so, here. I finally had to start this journal to actually talk with people.

Is it okay to post commissioned work as paid posts on Patreon? Beginners with Patreon might just get 1$ for that, noone would make a problem about it. But consider an artist who have 200+ patrons - they might get twice the money from that post than the commissioner payed for their work. So it can be that 200 other people will get a full resolution image for 1$ while the commissioner payed, say 100$, basicly for the same thing, just with their character.

I remember comming across an artist who had it in their terms of service, it was something like - I reserve the right to make prints and merchandise of the commissioned works. So basically the artist owns the art unless the commissioner payed some stated amount of money to kinda have a licence on that art.

What do you think? Is that okay or is that being greedy and tricking people? How would you feel if the artist continued making money on your commissioned characters?

I think I will be introducing in the future a form for every commissioner to fill in, whether they agree on this or not. I think it depends on the person and the form of work too(like a traditional piece exist in an original form which you can buy, with digital everything is just a copy). From my experience it turns out some people dont mind and other treat their characters very personally and want to keep the works for themselves, and they have all rights to do so, after all they payed for it. This is not commercial work.

Still, what do you think, whether you're an artist, a commissioner or both or none, how would you treat such situation.

~Bluari


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I offer art to anyone willing to fix my problems with connection while running GuildWars2. I'm serious, I wont do it by myself -_-'. I think it was two months now and it still happen from time to time.
I found some huge ass trouble shooting guide but I really don't feel in the mood for learning IT stuff now.

I must be crazy.

https://www.facebook.com/contrelacruauteeanimale prepare for drastic images

There is this cat dying at a clinic in... Canada? I have no idea,  melo666 was retweeting this, I was just reading the poor auto translations on Facebook but it all seems legit. I know there must be thousands of such fundraisers but heck, if I'm already about to have my whole day tainted by this I might aswell just do something.

Because I'm totally broke I can do some special commissions like these here http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8184450/ , if anyone is interested, please contact me.
If any artists are interested in doing collabissions(collab commissions) please contact me too.

What kind of sick fuck one have to be to deliberately ran over a living creature with a car.

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Hello fuzzies

I am actively back now! Not just in spirit but yes I am making new art now.

For now the priorities are preparing for Confuzzled(yay, my first c:) and the commissions I am still due(shame on me). But I started on those, they do move forward, look https://twitter.com/CrystalBluari/s.....27045357858817

I've been doing a lot of updates to my Patreon page, during the past week. The pledges are per art bundle now, not per month. I am planning to introduce something like a patron exclusive blog for 1$ or something small.
The price per bundle is 3$ now, I thought my previous 5 was too much. I am open for suggestions, after all you give me money, I can buys me som food, and a fed Bluari is open for suggestions what to draw next then ;>.

and finally NEW COMMISSION SLOTS
Full colour things will be announced later. Please prepare yourself for a rise in prices unfortunately.
For now I can open slots for all the small things which I can make in breaks of the bigger things.

By small things I mean:

fullbody traditional sketches 30-50£ example1 example2 example3 example4 example5 example6

headshot sketches traditional 20£ example1 example2
headshots/badges digital 40£ example1example2 example3 example4
headshots/badges traditional 60-90£ example1 example2

traditional speedpaints 50-80£ example1 example2 example3 example4 example5
digital speedpaints 60-90£ example1 sorry, no more examples here. Those headshots pretty much show my abilities.

For those concerned, there will be an opportunity to pick those up at Confuzzled(because I'm not taking sketch commissions there). I probably wont get a table at the Dealer's Den but I will be at the small DD on saturday(I think... I haven't really got an email with a confirmation yet *shrug* anyway, we will find a way to meet there).

SLOTS




♦ Yes I do NSFW. Yes I will draw that image which just appeared in your head.
♦ Payment required upfront, I use Paypal, I will note you the address once your slot is confirmed.
♦ Badges can be laminated.
♦ I can ship traditionals but you are covering the costs.
♦ I reserve the right to possibly make prints for sale of the commissioned work.
♦ All works should be done by end of may. I doubt I would take longer but because I deal very badly with deadlines, I can't guarantee.

~Bluari ♥


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Have you ever wanted to tip me? Now is your perfect chance, and you can even get a treat! :3 On GUMROAD, for 5$(or more, your choice*wink-wink*) you can download every single thing I ever posted to any site, including Twitter and Tumblr, excluding Instagram and Patreon. All artworks, sketches, speedpaints, work-in-progress, everything art-related. From 2005 till now, so even some adorable nostalgic beginnings which are stored away on all sites right now and will remain that way. Over 1000 files, almost 900MB.
The income will be used to feed the artist and keep her making more sweet anthro magic which we all love :3.

♦ GUMROAD! ♦

I also have some texture packs available there so if you're an artist have a look c:

Patreon is obviously still running, however still in it's beginnings. I really want to get into it and make more rewards and generally make it great.
For now I accept pledges per art bundles 3$ each, yes I changed the price from 5, I thought it was a bit too much.

♦ PATREON! ♦

And I am pretty much open all the time for just simple sketches or speedpaints, without any consultations, so if you want to give me money I prefer to at least give you a simple drawing in return c:

Thank you for all your support! <3
~Bluari


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Decided to make a separate journal for extra recognition :D

And here it is!: https://www.patreon.com/bluari !!
And here's a little promotional poster that I don't think I will be posting into the gallery here because it seems lame, gallery is for art, not advertisments.

I used to have Patreon before with monthly pledges but that didn't work well for me so I came up with an idea of art bundles that I will post when I make enough stuff c:. That way there will be no pressure that I wont make decent amount of new art for you, if I will be busy with other work or whatever.

There will be regular and illustration bundles. All 5$ per one. Regulars will contain sketches, speedpaints, studies, concept drawings, work-in-progress shots and such, mostly not conected to eachother. And illustration bundles will be little documentaries of whole process of creating a full colour image.

I made myself a system of points depending on complexity of the drawing in a single file so every bundle will have the same "weight" in content. I also wont be posting more that 3 bundles per month so you don't have to worry about suddenly paying a fortune in one month.

Please, visit the link for more details c:


Of course it will expand if I get more patrons ; n ;. Right now I go to work, save money, resign(not going on holiday), make some art, and when money ends I go back to my work, when the recruitment is up(good that at least I like it, as I said, people are super cool). The only reason why I'm not a starving artist is because I can work magic with simple products, haha! ;> But seriously now. I tried to split my time for work and doing personal art projects but it came out to be tough so again I'm trying freelancing. I want to work up another step further. I will be super glad if you decide to pay for results c:.
So that we can finally move forward with that comic with  mfarley ; 3 ;. Damn, I need to make some teaser for that...

Thank you for your support! :3
~Bluari



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Hello fluffies, how are ya all doing?


It's been a while. I needed to take a break. From art. A ton of things been hapenning through the past year. I moved basically over sea, I'm in Scotland at the moment with a dear friend, I have a new workspace but not yet a new desk alone(my workplace is a coffee table and a sofa so old that upon sitting on it you almost fall into a hole). The climate is killing me x'D but people are nice.

I spent my break on settling in, reading most of The Song of Ice and Fire, having a normal job, thinking too much and then feeling really bad, traveling a bit. Tried to get back to drawing in february, at NFC. Took me all the way until now to really miss creating stuff. Should an artist feel the need to draw all the time, non-stop? I hope not, because I don't. I do more when I have no pressure on me. You know, like in the long past times when I had no access to the Internet and no pursuit for career.


There might be some new accounts in the future. I wanted to drop Bluari and start anew but I rather keep this brand since I worked so hard on it. And yea, it's a brand. Nothing more, another project. Neutral attitude to just create stuff and go forward. I would like to start new projects though.

I'm not openning new commission slots for bigger pictures yet, not before I finnish all other things I should do a long time ago. There can be occassional YCHs.
I'm relaunching my Patreon. This time with pledges per creation, not per month https://www.patreon.com/bluari here's a little promotional poster x3. I'm working now on putting together new material to post but already you can view all posts from the past.

So far confirmed conventions for 2017 are NordicFuzzCon and Gdakon.

What more to say.... please tell me if you play Guild Wars II x'D I'd love to meet more noobs to noob around with me.


Well, that's that... meet you in the comments section under my new art, haha xD
~Bluari




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Yes, I will be there. During day, mostly in the Artist Alley so go ahead and come to say hi. Just sorry in advance for my social awkwardness.
I rather wont be taking sketch commissions because I'm terrible with them but it's always nice to meet new people.

~yours truly