Blaque Tygriss warning warning warning. "Update" ;)

Posting this cause I noticed some activity on her yahoogroup- namely that she has deleted it. So I suspect she is up to SOMETHING. Guess we'll see. Anyone have a furbuy and furbid account to see if she's accepting commissions when my plush has STILL not been fullfilled nor refunded (since 2004, people)?

Anywho, the story is long and boring but you should be warned in case my suspicions are true and she's accepting commissions and doing new artwork despite saying in a March 2009 post to her yahoogroup that she won't until all commissions are refunded or fullfilled.

So here are the past posts about her since there still isn't a tag for her:
8-6-2005
8-26-2005
9-23-2005
10-9-2005
12-11-2005
1-8-2006
2-19-2006
5-15-2006
8-27-2006

Can't believe it's been THAT long since I last posted to warn people. I meant to at least twice a year.

Anyhoo... one of her last posts in March 2009 to her yahoogroup right before it got deleted:

Posted by: "A. Gaillard" blaquetygriss@yahoo.com blaquetygriss
Sun Mar 1, 2009 7:33 pm (PST)
I hadn't been to this group since 2006 something honestly.

This is an announcement (an old one actually but new to any who hadn't heard) that as of 2007 I WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT COMMISSIONS OF ANY SORT FROM NOW ON. NO LONGER WILL THERE BE ANY ART AUCTION ON ANY AUCTION WEBSITE.

I WILL COMPLETE/REFUND COMMISSIONS THAT ARE UNDONE AND STUPIDLY (on my part) UNNECESSARILY WELL OVERDUE. ASIDE FROM THAT I AM /NOT/ TAKING ON NO MORE COMMISSIONS NEVER AGAIN.

I can either give you something that is already drawn/made, refund or complete the commission. Bare in mind refunds will take a bit as I am seriously tight on cash and commission completions will be completed
upon time they were received.

Only spare plushies I have already made is a werewolf, dragon and a host of near-done critters. Artwise it mainly consist of tons of sketch art of varying adult and tame situations.

I don't know WTF is wrong with me or my drive to draw, I feel insanely burnt out and can't even stand the sight of pen and paper. Never in my life have I drawn just one image every six or more months. It's gotten that bad. This shit has seriously pissed me off with myself because I never had this problem up til 2006 when all that bullcrap went on in my life.

This is NOT an excuse, this is an EXPLANATION because if it was me looking from the outside in I would want a explanation. Fuck the excuses, I am just burnt the f*ck out.

Unless wanting otherwise stated by members, in a week this Yahoo group will be deleted.

My email account is and always will be the one here on Yahoo. My web galleries that I visit every now and then are on Sheezyart, Deviantart and Furaffinity if needing to contact me.

Again I deeply apologize for the heartache, set backs and harm I have caused to any and everyone. It seriously was not my intention for things to turn out the way it did. People who commissioned me back in 2002-2003 can tell you I use to be fast, like 48hrs fast. Now? I just lost every and all drive to draw like I use to, much less thread a
needle to sew. I never thought would suffer burn out but did.

And more I think of it, it's pissing the FUCK out of me.
Sorry for the bad grammar and English.
-Blaquetygriss


And I should mention- I emailed her after that post about getting a refund and... no reply. Big shock.

I wonder if she's ever gonna start believing in karma? Seriously, if she straightened this mess out I bet her life would start to improve a lot. I don't feel sorry for the mess she's in and I never will. I say she deserves some of the shit she has had flung at her because of the shit she has flung at her clients.

Maybe that's harsh of me, and yes hindsight is 20/20 and I could have done a LOT to prevent getting ripped off by her ($400, for those who haven't read all those links) but there is no excuse for her. None. I don't have many regrets as I learn from my mistakes... but I will always regret BlaqueTygriss. Yes, I also learned from that mistake, but I also direly regret it.


(Posted edited for a minor html italics glitch that doesn't seem to want to go away... *pokes it*)

[identity profile] lilenth.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)

Depends actually, unless you're creating a human? You can get things wrong a lot when it comes to features on non-humans and most people will not notice. That's why the top two tests of rendering are free handing a perfect circle and drawing people.

[identity profile] spiffystuff.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
well yeah, human faces are less forgiving than anthro faces (because we are very familiar with what a human face is supposed to look like), but I'd still say any face is less forgiving than, say, ears and a tail, or even a plush with a face that is extremely simplified.

[identity profile] lilenth.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)

I'd have to disagree, I don't know about anyone else but wall eyed or cross eyed critters look kind of bizarre to me but I've seen others overlook it and gush about how great a piece of art they got was when the character has eyes looking in two different directions, or even some pretty awkward anatomy.

Not that that is any excuse to produce poor work but it's a case of an artist as a customer notices these things, non-artists? Not so much.

[identity profile] lilenth.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course it's blue looking, I'm not disagreeing for the sake of disagreement itself. (technically the sky isn't blue, it's colourless, the blue colour comes from the light being bounced and bent inside it)

I'm just saying that some people are faster than you'd expect with no loss of quality and that non-artist customers don't tend to focus on anatomy as much as artists do so don't tend to notice things that are off as much as an artist customer would. Spending a lot of time thinking about something or seeing something tends to make people hyper-sensitive to when it's done wrong.

I don't know what your problem is but I bet it's something long and hard to pronounce.
Edited 2009-09-10 17:46 (UTC)

[identity profile] spiffystuff.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Buh...

nnnnnnn *flail*

*hyperventillates*

ASJKFSDJKLFJSDJ IT'S GRAY RIGHT NOW!!!! D:

(kidding... well it is, but yeah)

[identity profile] spiffystuff.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude, I'm just talking about pricing of commissions and why $300 is pretty good for a fursuit head vs kinda steep for a plush (assume a plush of similar size to a head). I'm not saying animal heads are "less complicated" than human heads IRL - just that most humans are VERY SENSITIVE to faces of other humans. Faces of animals too, but I really don't think it's quite the same.
I'm an artist, I know animal heads are complicated :P I have a harder time drawing anything other than wolves or humans because that's what I've practiced a lot - going outside my species of familiarity takes a lot of work and reference photos.

[identity profile] spiffystuff.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
... of course the other thing is I'm sure the materials costs for a fursuit head are much higher. Foam + taxidermy bits (either purchased or made by the creator) + fur, etc, probably more than filler beans and fur.

[identity profile] lilenth.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)

Depends on what sort of plush imho, I've been pricing up the costs animatronic plush puppets lately and their base cost is about the same as for a fursuit head, also good quality stuffing and fur is always going to cost more than cheap foam and fun fur.

[identity profile] spiffystuff.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, but what about an anamatronic plush vs an /anamatronic fursuit head/ ?

(at this point I have no idea!!!)

[identity profile] lilenth.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)

Probably about the same if they're the same size. :P

[identity profile] spiffystuff.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess at that point the animatronics are the limiting (or rather, price setting) factor :P

[identity profile] lilenth.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)

In a comparitive level at the same size? I think they're going to end up taking the same time/materials pretty much, perhaps just a shade more in the case of the plush since it'll have filling the head won't have.

[identity profile] lilenth.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)

I said in a comparative level, I didn't set the comparison, therefore it means two of similar level. Apparently you were so eager to be 'right' that you overlooked that.

I'm honestly wondering if you like looking foolish, I mean, first you open your mouth and insert your foot over disability, then you demonstrate that you have no idea how light works despite being a teacher and now you follow it up with trying to argue with me based on a false assumption. :P Wow, you really went three for three there, care to try for a fourth time?

[identity profile] lilenth.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)

No, apparently you are though. If you'd actually had a point or were able to say something that wasn't completely foolish? I'd agree with you, but so far you haven't produced anything that makes me think you've even engaged your brains before leaping into arguing with me.

Seriously, your problems are not my fault so kindly stop taking the fact that you embarassed yourself repeatedly earlier by leaping before you thought things through out on me.

[identity profile] lilenth.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)

hmm? Oh so it's personal jabs now? I can accommodate that. How about you tell me how getting a decent job with your degree is going? Or not going as the case may be? A word of advice, but your time would have been better spent actually doing art, at least then perhaps you could draw humans without them being cross-eyed/wall-eyed, or maybe not.

Considering you're the one who went buh-bye then came back just to argue with me and even jumped into conversations I was having with others to argue with me? Well they do say that people tend to see their flaws reflected in others, even if the person doesn't really have them. But hey think what you want, it's not like you ponder anything more significant it seems.

Oh classic, passive aggressive attempts to pretend that you haven't made a complete fool out of yourself, what one of 100+ tired responses to losing a debate are you going to use next?

[identity profile] stormslegacy.livejournal.com 2009-09-11 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
WTH is your problem? Whatever it is, please stop derailing the thread. You are making personal attacks that seem to be out of the blue and have NOTHING to do with anything?

Artists Beware is not the smartest place to make an ass of oneself.

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[identity profile] lilenth.livejournal.com 2009-09-11 01:00 am (UTC)(link)

I think their problem is that they said something foolish earlier and rather than be an adult and apologise for making a silly assumption? They decided to go on the warpath.

I'd let them get on with it, no skin off my nose after all, it's their reputation they're damaging.

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