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Okay, here's my humble yearly Artfight advice, because with every AF, there's always a bit of an ongoing cycle:

While you can't ever guarantee revenges, your chances of getting art back are always higher if you target people with positive ratios. There's a lot of people on site who have +75% attack ratios (meaning they've drawn way more art than they have received). Go target them! They deserve love AND are way more likely to return art!

DO NOT fall for random celeb tiktokker with 50k followers who is, for the seventh year in a row, promising they will be revenging all the art they get all while their ratio sits at a whooping 5%! There's always some people like this and a lot of younger folk fall for it again and again. And then these people don't even bother with commenting on the art they receive

In my experience, it's younger folk or people who are newer to art that will go more apeshit (affectionate) about the art they receive. If you really wanna make someone's entire week, find yourself someone who is new to AF or someone who has just started drawing and give them a lil something, they will adore it!

Artfight can be a great opportunity to make friends. I've met some wonderful people through exchanging art there. Use the search function to find characters tagged as things you have an interest in and go ham. Chances are, you may meet someone with similar interests who may end up becoming a long term friend.

While receiving revenges is great, don't try to guilt trip people for them. Don't go around posting comments on people's profiles like "If I draw for you will you revenge me??" Just draw for the person if you'd like to draw for them, don't do it expecting the whole situation to be a transaction

A lot of people will mention in their profiles whether they are revenging or not. It's a good idea to check that out if you are interested in revenges- But never take these as a 100% guarantee

Comment on art you have received! It doesn't need to be a deep comment. Sometimes gushing over it and dropping 30 emojis and a big thank you gets the point across. It can be rather daunting to not receive any confirmation that the person you drew for even saw the art you made for them.

And honestly, just be honest with yourself and how much art you can make without burning out or hurting yourself. Make your stretches, rest your hand, and try to have fun without sacrificing your health on the way!

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Coping with being overworked by drawing memes with our Ventrue OC, Gerardo Vambretti

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Billy!

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Teaching via Teams from home is fun because I declared to a whole class that my plan for the evening was playing Red Dead Redemption 2 because I'm stressed and also wanting a smooch from my husband, before realising that my mic was still on and I was indeed talking with said husband.

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I can't believe staying locked in my house for a 4-weeks-long case of pneumonia, made me happy to leave the house to go to work

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Altre

catene

morte, ma sempre

vivo il contorno del mondo.

Respiro ancora.

Respiro

meglio.

[By Diversifico]

More dead chains,

the outline of the world still alive.

I still breathe.

I breathe

better.

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Wow I was able to finish a painting in two days??? Because my work-life balance is slowing fixing itself??? Wowie.

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Lesser Dragon

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tea painting dump

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So I am trying to practice some graphic design and add to my portfolio (the job search is a hellscape, i am suffering)

and THUS i have made some fake Vampire the Masquerade drinks. Embrace the BEAST! Drink not at all ethically sourced vitae!

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Old art, but sometimes being the Don of Cleveland means you need to have a girls day to yourself inbetween all the normal vampire bullshit. Effie is good at that.

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Be an eel, not a fish

Thrive where others perish

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An arboreal griffon is a ferocious avian carnivore with the sleek body of a leopard and the head, forelegs, and wings of a green woodpecker.

These creatures are chiefly known for their characteristic behaviour. They mostly forage for small and medium sized mammals on the trunks and branches of trees, and often communicate by drumming with their beak, producing a reverberatory sound that can be heard for miles. Their diet also includes birds, eggs, tree sap, scraps and carrion.

They mostly nest and roost in holes that they excavate in tree trunks, which they defend fiercely. They sometimes come into conflict with caravans when they make holes in wagons to feed on goods, but perform a useful service by their removal of invasive species on trees. I drew this for my GM who wanted to homebrew some griffins! This one is based over a green woodpecker and a leopard. You can find the homebrew on DnDBeyond

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Dragon I painted for my husband's dnd game, because black dragons are cool and scary (and swamps are creepy af) Enjoy!

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One of my favorite pieces I've done! A little hummingbird dragon :)

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VtM's italian translation so silly that the word for "Embrace" is the word "Hug".

Imagine having a whole group being very confused as an NPC is complaining about not having received a hug from the local Kindred...

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Decided to give him a little paint

My doomed by the narrative king

Despite the horrors, he somehow manages to drop some of the hardest bars in the game

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A snippet of a scene of something that happened months ago, but the consequences are beginning to show their face recently in game that I felt compelled to depict it~

The most summarized explanation I can give for now: In a discussion about their letter correspondence--in which Saverio and Strahd have been writing to each other for a few back-and-forths now--Saverio suggested Strahd could contact him through his thoughts 'like how Magni talks to people' thinking specifically about Sending spells. Strahd clarified that Saverio was giving him permission to this which, not thinking much of his reply, he agreed to and was given a rather smug smile in response. Thanks to a Nat 20 insight check on that, these pictures were the horrific answer he came to realize.

I'm sure it'll fine. The only follow up to this was Strahd being a mild and very brief irritation for one night but it wasn't anything to write back home about.

It's fine.

Bonus doodle in relation to this (made for Cat Day)