I’ve started offering poster prints of my art over on my shop site! It’ll take me a while to get allllll of it up there, I’ve got 96 files to do and then gotta get even more from older archived procreate files, and I gotta adjust each and every size on Printful for each image so bear with me, but I’ve got 8 up there rn and will do my best to upload batches regularly!

Also please be sure to read the disclaimer in the description on the poster listings, it talks about just making sure you’re ok with the crop for the size/aspect ratio you chose! Unfortunately Printful only has preset sizes and doesn’t print to match a photos aspect ratio.

Here is the link to the new Posters category on the site!
https://www.bagustore.com/shop/posters

Sine Etsy doesn’t allow NSFW stuff anymore, I had to pull the nsfw shop from there and made my own site! Would mean a lot if you checked it out. It’s got everything from both the SFW and NSFW Etsy shops on there, and I’ll be adding more stuff very soon too.

Here’s the link :)
https://www.bagustore.com/

Just wanted to post that I have two etsy shops, one for SFW and another for NSFW. I'm hoping to add more designs semi-regularly too.

Here's the SFW one: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BaguArts
And here's the NSFW one (This one I just made yesterday so there's only a few things there right now): https://www.etsy.com/shop/NSFBagu

Would mean a lot if you checked em out :)

<3

My bluesy is @ nsfbagu.bsky.social

I’ll still be uploading on Twitter for the time being, I don’t want to abandon it too quick since that’s by far my biggest platform, but I’m definitely worried about it and more optimistic about the future of bluesky. May have no choice but to shut down on Twitter eventually. So I recommend following me on bluesky to keep up to date with everything I do.

Sorry there’s been such lulls in uploads, art block was hitting hard and I been on anxiety medicine that’s been messing with my productivity. I’ve got new stuff cooking tho, should be posting one next week and then I’ve got another in the works too. Hoping to get back to normal soon.
If you wanna see what I’m workin on, you can support me for $5 or more on Patreon to be able to see the WIPs :3

http://www.patreon.com/bagu

Wanted to let you know I'm gonna be opening up for commissions on May 15, so a week from today on Wednesday :)
I'm not sure about how many slots yet, I'm thinking 5.

Ill have a proper price sheet up next week though :)

I have a discord now! You can join with this link:

https://discord.gg/xqDfNd6YuC

I need some somewhat simple Pokemon to have in the background of a pic. It takes place on a subway train if that helps.

Thankssssssss <3

https://patreon.com/bagu

Very excited to announce that I have opened a Patreon! This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while, originally planning to do it when I hit 2k on Twitter, then 5k, and now I’m doing it after 7k finally lol. I dunno, I just wanted to make sure I felt worthy of it. I still dunno if I do, but my friend encouraged me to finally get it going.

Obviously, you are not required to support me on there to see my art anymore. Art will be there first, but all finished artwork will still be posted here and my other pages as well. What other things WILL be there though, will be WIP updates on illustrations and animations, as well as polls for deciding what to draw next/what to include in drawings, etc. The tier info is over on Patreon, so I recommend going over there and taking a look! There is also a tier just for a tip jar :)

I feel kinda weird doing this for some reason, but I wanna do my best to not just lock my work behind a paywall. I rarely ever posted WIPs anyway so it’s not like I’m taking those away or anything, it’s just something extra for the Patreon, same goes for polls. I think Ive done like….1 poll over on Twitter, maybe 2 I dunno lol. I know some people get a bit iffy about artists keeping stuff on Patreon but I’m really gonna do my best to make it as fair as possible.
My plan is to have finished art hit Patreon 1-2 weeks early, it would kinda depend on the schedule and what I have ready to post etc. Not sure if anyone’s noticed, but I do not post on the weekends, since I’ve noticed posting on the weekends hurts a post’s reach on Twitter. There are lots of times where I will finish a drawing on Saturday and then wait until Monday to post it. With Patreon, I can post it there as soon as I finish it.

While I sorta figure it out, posting may seem a bit strange as I kinda stagger the releases to gradually work this new schedule in. At first it might be like, a 2 or 3 day lead on Patreon but I’ll work it up to the 1-2 weeks. I feel like that’s a pretty fair gap?

I know I’m kinda over-explaining it but I feel a bit strange doing this. I felt weird starting commissions too, so please bear with me a bit on this. I’ve never really been someone who thinks my work is worth being paid for and a lot of times I have a hard time believing people will even want to do this, I think partly cause I’ve never gotten a ko-fi donation I think “Well then why would people do Patreon” lol. I’ve had nice results with commissions though, and at this point I feel like this is a natural next step. I really have worked my ass off since July 2023 specifically, putting out 1-2 finished pics a week for the most part since then, so in some ways I do feel like I owe it to myself to at least have this option out there as well.

Plus, it will just help a lot. I’m not expecting to get many supporters, but every little bit helps. Now that the Christmas season is over, I’m going to be looking for a day job again so that I can afford to move out of my dad’s place. It’s super overdue and I need it for my mental health. I also plan to open commissions again sometime soon, just seeing what happens with the job first. If it looks like I’m not gonna get anything for a few weeks then I might open a few slots. However, once I do have a job, I wanna make sure I take on what I can handle in commissions while also not allocating ALL my art time to commissions, if that makes sense.

Anyway, I ramble. Again, support is not required but it is greatly GREATLY appreciated. There’s a few WIPs up on there right now, and they should be uploaded rather regularly as I work on stuff. That Toxtricity animation I started like, last October will be getting WIP updates (some of which are already there :P)

Thank you all for the support this last year. It’s all meant so much. If you want to support me, you can go here:

https://patreon.com/bagu

And also here
https://ko-fi.com/baguart

<3

Thank you :) didn’t think I was gonna hit 4 digits for a while yet.

Might open up commissions sometime in the next couple weeks. I’m going back to work soon so gonna wait till I settle into that schedule again before I commit.

Was originally gonna wait till I finished this animation but I’ve barely worked on it and I’ve been asked about comms quite a bit lately.

Still also gotta figure out how I’m gonna do it. Prices will likely just be the same. I might try limited slots this time. Not sure if I’m big enough to do that yet tho so I’ll see.

But keep an eye out probably early December-ish.

If I were to ever remake an nsfw piece of mine, or at least do a sequel to a specific piece, what would you want it to be? I’m curious. I dunno if I’ll do it at least right now, but could be something I do if I need an idea for something.

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Maybe I’ll reconsider idk. I just get discouraged easily and get real excited to share him cause he’s my own. Idk maybe I don’t push him enough is the problem. Losing some followers on Twitter after posting him yesterday sure added to how fucked up I felt about the whole thing already though. I kinda just got the impression people dont want to see him at all.

I think part of it too is I see plenty of people who their sona draws in all this positivity and attention immediately and I just kinda felt I failed at that. I’ve never been one to be popular, especially not right out the gate (idk how you all do it I try my best) but it definitely seemed to me like a big difference between my sona and other people’s.

That’s not to say I don’t like him, hell he’s my fursona im super proud and happy with him. But I think that’s why it kinda hits harder, it’s not like I drew a Pokémon and it’s like, moderately popular; that’s like “ok that ones just not super looked for” but idk, when it was my own guy it felt a lot more weighted, even though I know obviously an oc that’s not a Pokémon or whatever is not gonna be actively searched for.

Hopefully that makes sense. Sorry I went on kinda a thing about it yesterday. It’s just a lot on top of things just not going so well personally so it all kinda stacks up and then explodes at points.

My big goal right now is to grow as much as I can quickly. Which doesn’t seem to be in the cards for me but I’m trying my best. So I still might just not post him too much, but maybe every once in a while I’ll feel ok if I have a doodle I did at some point, maybe I’ll share it if I have a little lull in full pieces. But I still wouldn’t expect to see him an awful lot in the near future. I feel a bit scummy saying it but with my focus being to grow as much as possible right now and only being able to make so much, I want to focus my energy on what’s gonna help achieve that goal and unfortunately he’s not it. In fact yesterday he contributed the opposite unfortunately.
I don’t wanna like…just draw Lucario either though.

Idk. But thank you all for the kind words yesterday and today about him. It really does mean a lot and was making me tear up a bit seeing people did actually like him. Sorry if I came off as a bit of a baby about it. I just get discouraged very easily.

But I’m gonna keep going for my goal. Rn it’s to reach 5k on twitter by the end of the year…maybe 4k at this point idk. I’m still waiting for that explosion, yknow? I see so many around me get it, I’m a bit antsy waiting for my time after posting art online for like, 10 years now.

A big reason I get so worried about numbers and stuff is just that I want to get to a point where I can support myself. I’ve always been told by various others that when you get to a point where your main income is doing what you love then you’ve made it. That’s what I’m shooting for. Yeah it’s not super stable, it would be patreon (eventually) and commissions, but still I’d be much happier with that and like, a part time job than resigning myself to some full time office job that I hate. There’s been a lotta shit going on in my life the last couple years and I’m just ready for something to work out for me like this.
I’m doin my best to figure out how to make that work and see maybe what it is I lack that everyone else seems to have. If you have suggestions…please tell me lol I’d love the help or advice. Maybe I’m just missing something about my own work that I don’t realize that should be there. I don’t really feel like I CANT make this work, but damn the universe sure is making me work my ass off for it for as long as possible. Like I’m not a confident person at all but I dunno I feel like I’m at a point where I’m…at least somewhat comparable to others. But I guess if I was then I’d see the results so idk.
Also just wanna say thank you to the friends that have really helped me out (you know who you are), with helping to boost me as much as they can and really championing for me to make it. I really appreciate it and I appreciate all the love you all give on my posts. I love reading comments from you all on my work, seriously you have no idea how happy I get when I see I have a new comment. Also scared cause I don’t want it to be a bad comment but luckily it never has been yet lol.

Sorry I ramble a lot. And I also say sorry too much. I’m trying to work myself out of a shitty place emotionally and hopefully I’ll do better as time goes on.

Thank you all <3

Probably just gonna keep sona doodles to myself. He doesn’t seem to really be interesting to anyone so I’m not gonna stress about posting him and seeing nobody really care.
I still really like him and just don’t wanna get too discouraged about him cause of the lack of response to him.

Basically just don’t expect to see much of him anymore besides my profile pic. I tried to have a fursona in the fandom (like 99% of others in the fandom) and apparently I just didn’t make a very good one. Maybe one day I’ll feel better about posting him again but for now I’m gonna keep doodles i do of him to myself and my bf mostly.

If he got even a moderate response I’d be ok sharing him more but it’s just really not worth the excitement putting it out to share and it gets less attention than stuff I did with like 50 followers. Not that the specific like count matters, I know he’s not gonna do as well as a Pokémon pic or something but still.
I know he’s not exactly the most creative thing.

Call it petty but whatever. Ill probably leave that last one up cause I do actually like it but it’s gone from twitter, and will probably be the last I post of him for a while. I’ll just stick to nsfw fanart from now on and leave Sfw for the smash series. Altho I really only still post those cause I like making the time lapses and tracking the progress since that series has an end point, if it weren’t for that I’d leave those for myself too.

I’ll be back next week with art people hopefully will like better.

Taking a slight break from twitter, not sure if that’ll carry over to here or anything but just not in a good headspace about my art lately. Seeing the numbers is just making it worse. I feel like a total ass for letting it get to me when I see others doing so much better than me. But I’ll try to stop. I’m happy for them but I can’t help but think “wtf is wrong with me then” or “jeez my stuff really does suck huh.” Just gonna try to focus on my art and making it better so it’s not boring and I know how to actually do simple things like cel shade, which I feel like the biggest dumbass for not being able to do well. Gonna work on posing and composition so it’s not boring af, my lineart, shading, everything. I have lots of general ideas for what I wanna draw, I have a little list written out, so hopefully I can make them good pics.
This isn’t aimed at anyone in specific either, I wanna clarify.

Sorry to be so negative but that’s how it is sometimes.

Idk if there will be a lull in art or not. Maybe a bit anyway cause I’m working on my next animation again. I want to get better, art is literally the only thing I have that I can somewhat do, since I was little. I want to improve but sometimes I think “I been drawing since I was little and been posting art online since I was like 12 and I might as well have started drawing like within the last year based on my skills”
Feels like a dead end sometimes. Went to school for 3d animation, suck at 3d animation and no drive for it. Partly cause of a terrible professor I had but idk. Been drawing for my whole life almost, still amateur. Im gonna be 25 soon. But with where I am with my skills and in life in general I might as well be 15 again. Even then I’d probably be out of place, there’s 14 year olds animating on big movies and I can’t do as much as finish a single animating exercise ffs.

Again I’m not mad at people for being successful. That’s great for them and awesome. But I’ve always hard a hard time not letting that put my own stuff into a negative perspective.
I probably sound like a jerk and an ass for saying all this, and a hypocrite cause I just reached 2k on Twitter which is great but there are times I just can’t help feeling this way yknow. I’ve had some successful posts on there so really I have no place to be upset but those do feel more like outliers than successes when it’s not consistent, if that makes sense. And I know numbers aren’t the only thing that matters I get that. I draw because I love to draw. I don’t draw things thinking “this’ll get a lot of attention I bet.” Usually the ones that do are the ones I think won’t do well at all because of the characters in them or something.

Anyway sorry if I sound like a jerk. I don’t mean to. It’s just been a rough time. I’m not quitting art but I clearly need to reevaluate my skills and try to correct 18+ years of being self taught and getting into bad habits. Just trying to be someone talented with no natural talents.

If you like my art, thank you. I truly do appreciate it despite how I sound like a whiny baby rn. I don’t want to devalue that at all. Really, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I might delete this later idk. Just kinda ranting and spewing out words at this point.
Again sorry for the negativity. Just how it is. Doubt anybody’s read this but if you have…sorry about the negativity and hope you have a nice day

Finally heard back from the trouble ticket I submitted asking about which of my pics would need to be taken down. Luckily it was just one, the Dragapult pic from the Double Dick December collab. Which is a shame I really like that one but I figured it’d get flagged. The other one is the Fuecoco I drew but I didn’t even submit that one I knew it’d get flagged.

As far as I know tho everything else is safe. I went and deleted those 2 from the gallery here. If you wanna see the Dragapult it’s up in e621 and my twitter/the collab’s twitter.

Wanted to let you know I’m gonna take a break from taking commissions for a bit. I wanna focus on my next animation and also just do some more personal work and portfolio work.

I’m gonna go ahead and close the form, and then do the last Comm in the queue. Not sure when I’ll open em again, maybe when the animation is done ^^

New avatar until I can make a little animated one of my sona. Wanted to have him in it instead of the little chompy guy since I can’t change my name to Bagu here.

Thank you I’m glad you enjoy my stuff <3

I have an updated Commission Sheet for 2023!

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50687998/

thanks :) <3

:) <3

Sorry about the mini art dump, I realized I hadn't posted the last few Scales X Smash Ultimate pics on here