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Tumblr really thought I wouldn't notice one of the hardest BFB drawings in recent memory just sitting in my recommendations.

Thing I made to promote myself on twitter

GO VOTE FOR FOURYOYLE!!!!! if you want.

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This is so cool!!

made one of two as well! AGAIN, CREDIT ME IF YOU WANNA USE THE ANIMATIONS!

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Nine is my favorite number.

I don't have a favorite number

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SMK4 MOVIE: Good Grief (Art Fight 2025)

Hello folks. Today, on RetroRubix, we got a big one. My first mass attack (but probably not my last): The Good Grief poster; featuring the mayority of the Kevin Alliance!

"For when the games end, only one side will have the last word."

As you can see, I've included a ton more characters than my previous attacks. SEVEN CHARACTERS, in fact. So, before I go over everything I got to say about this piece, I shall give a list on who's on here, and their rightful owners. Please check out their content if possible!

Luna (Front center); oc by @rerising-moon

Good & Bad (Upper Center respectivetly), based off the characters of the same name from "Object Cringe" by Slinkybox77 and redesigned by resing-moon

Misty (Left to Luyna); oc by @meteorshowerzz

SMK4 amething (Left to Misty); oc by me :)

SMK4 Acid (Right to Luyna); oc by Randomfan20

and Atlas (Right to Acid); oc by rockstar_kye

OKAAYY SOOO. I got a handful of things to say about this one. Prepare for a massive wall of text up ahead :

> This piece took 15 hours and 35 minutes to finish, in the span of 2 days, making it my longest piece so far.

> To give a bit of more context around this attack, this is a poster for a personal SMG4 AU (nicknamed SMK4) that was made by the Kevin Alliance (The People colored in pink in the character list above). Moon, who's a big fan of Object Cringe, wanted to make an arc within our AU based around the characters of Good and Bad. A while ago, she made a mini poster for it, which I used as a base for this piece.

> The plot of the arc revolves around Good and Bad arriving to the SMG4 world, choosing our SMK4 characters to play "a game". As it turns out, though, these beings were actually testing the SMG4 world's morality through the games; and they've determined it's not worth keeping around! Now our heroes race to change Good and Bad's opinion quickly before they can obliterate their world!

> Besides the original poster Moon designed, I mainly went off the official SMG4 posters for inspiration with the style. Primarily the Revelations Arc poster (which is one of my favorite arcs from SMG4, aside of Genesis). You can see it with the way I shaded and rendered the characters and background.

> Speaking of the shading, one of the main things that took me a long time to work on was the shading on each character. This was a very experimental piece to make due to that, as I was using various tools I've never tried out before. I'm quite proud of the shading in this one; it was a hassle, but it looks cool to me.

> In the lore of the arc, Good and Bad decide to put an indestructible dome around the main SMK4 world after deciding they want to annihilate it, that way they'd prevent anyone inside from escaping. Moon included this detail in her original poster, I just liked the idea and translated it over to mine. I did want to elaborate on the context of it, so that's that-

>Okay, last things: The yellow logo on the bottom that serves as the SMK4 was designed by Randomfan. Months ago, I asked him if he could make a logo of our AU so I could use it in our artwork and sillies. He ended up making it, as seen here bellow, and we've used it ever since. Shout out to him obviously :D

>Finally, I made an alt version of the poster that doesn't feature the logos and stuff. This is just an extra for y'all who clicked on this blog.

Despite the troubles, with me struggling with the shading and anatomy and whatnot, I'm happy that the Kevins enjoyed the final result. I kinda owed this piece to them, for being my support family for a while. Despite us not always like the content, SMG4 means alot to us; and I thought this would've been a good piece to celebrate that. Take it as a thanks for everything :)

-Retro

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"You Got New Emails!" (Art Fight 2025)

Hello folks! Today, I got a new job as a Mailman. I'm suppose to deliver a pipe bomb, in the form of another Art Fight Attack! This is for the user jasperwonder ! Make sure to give their AF profile a visit!

"He's always at your service, emails at hand every morning (He earns that Employee Of The Month title for a reason!)"

Here we have the best virtual-mailman around: Mr. Antiphish!

So uh. i have a weak spot for webcore things. and sentient programs. and fish people (I'm an Axol Simp).

Moving past that, let's talk about the tech:

> This piece took 3 hours and 51 minutes to finish.

> Uh. Not too much to comment on this one, as it was very straightforward. BUT I do still have a few things. You can see I tried to give the window idea from my Tomorrow attack another shot; this time, putting a bit more attention on the accuracy of the 90's computer pop-up.

> Originally, I wanted to do this with linework. However, I changed my mind as I was sketching the attack because I thought making it lineless (and "paper-cut" like) would just look way better. In the end, yeah. It looks very clean.

> And as an extra, the final piece I did has a small pixel filter over the inside of the window to make it realistically bit crushed (like most old computer thing's). I saved the original picture before the effects, so you guys can take a look at it! the difference ain't much but hey, it's there. HORRAY FOR EXCLUSIVE CONTENT!

Like I've mentioned in my original post on AF for this peep, this was satisfying to draw! I like the character and messing around with a retro style was lovely. That concludes this post; thanks for sticking around.

See ya soon!

-Retro

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The Question (Art Fight 2025)

HELLO AGAIN FOLKS. This is Retro; this time with the gun pointed at the enemy, for this is my first friendly fire for my close friend (and Kevin alliance member) @meteorshowerzz ! Please, check out their blog and other socials; she's very talented and deserves a lot more recognition!

This piece comes with a mini story too, which I wrote:

"After walking through the forest and talking along the way, the two cookies stopped at a spot where the sun shined brightly among the shadows. It was in that spot where the ancient timidly asked their companion a question, one that would change their lives forever moving forward:

'Could we explore earthbread together?' "

The focus her is on Meteor's Cookie oc: Hibiscus Tea Cookie! I'll get to her in a moment, as we go over the specs:

> This piece took 6 hours and 39 minutes to finish.

> Two things were clear to me when starting this piece The first was that it had to feature White Lily Cookie. Within Hibiscus Tea's Lore, White Lily is a very important figure to her, given how much time they've spent together. It should also be noted that Meteors loves White Lily; so that was top priority. As you probably caught on, I like adding bits of storytelling details to my pieces whenever possible.

> The second thing I had on my mind when drawing was to try and make the piece look like a cutscene still from Kingdom. The Cookie Run art style is something I've been trying to study for a while; this was a good chance to test it out.

> The bit of story I added to this post (and the original attack on my ArtFight) came to me as I started sketching. Depicting a crucial moment in these two's past seemed like a natural fit, which also translated into the drawing as I went along with it.

This was a big illustration to finish. However, it was worth it. Meteor was really happy about it, which my main objective; and it helped me be more motivated to continue keep attacks coming. This was really nice to make :)

See you soon with the next piece!

-Retro

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Thank you bro for the awesome art B)

◆ARTFIGHT - WEEK 2◆

Uh. Hello? I ammm.. 2 days late. Oops its been a tiring week but I need to hold myself to completing what I finish, better late than never!

I don't have much to yap about like week 1 so let's just get to it

How have I done?

🌟I have made a total of 4 more attacks!

🌟I have accumulated 234.7 more points!

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Here we are, the art!

The characters are as follows!

Merp by FennecWing on Twitter

Dec and Ang both by Nakkicat on Twitter and Tiktok (again)

Peach by sillycatlover on Artfight

Sodie and Popper by @retrorubix

Week 2 everyone!! It is definitely not as grand as week 1 but eh. Life happens, what do you do about it. Hard to say if ill get in more attacks in or less but ill try my best!

Happy artfighting! See everyone next week

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ONE [Call] AWAY! (Art Fight 2025)

Hello! wE'RE BACK IT AGAIN FOLKS. Another attack for Art Fight. This one was made for the user maizething ! Please make sure to check out his Art Fight page!

This is Tomorrow, my personal favorite oc's from Maize's due to his Windows 98 aesthetic, as I really like Webcore inspired art. 📀's got some pretty interesting lore, as seen in xe's character page (please check it out as I think it's worth a read).

Alright, commentary time:

> This piece took 2 hours and 33 minutes to finish.

> I had some trouble figuring out what I'd do for this attack. I knew I was going to attack 📀, just didn't know how it'd look yet. I had a few ideas that ultimately went unused, like having him trying to aggressively break through a pop up window, or xe being surrounded by tons of ads. Well, the idea of Tomorrow interacting with a window still got implemented in the final piece (just in a slightly different way as I was planning).

> The colors used for the background were directly ripped from Maize's other oc: Click, who's an important character in Tomorrow's lore. I thought it would've been very cool and symbolic, but didn't count on the fact that it looks like the Mr Beast color pallete. The pose I went with for Tomorrow does not help one bit in that (MR BEEEEEASTTT).

That's pretty much it for this one. I really love Tomorrow and his lore, so this was a nice piece to make. With that we can conclude this blog. See you soon!

-Retro

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Talking Over Hot Cocoa (Art Fight 2025)

Alright, welcome back folks. Moving swiftly on from my previous post, here's one that I made for @deputiized !

I'm a fan of Shiver's design, and I'm also a Bobette simp enjoyer, so this is was an absolute treat to make. I also felt like Shiver wasn't getting that many attacks, so I bring them justice (AND IT SEEMED TO WORK BECAUSE SHE'S BEEN GETTING FREQUENT ATTACKS AFTERWARDS YAYY).

ahem. anyway;

> This piece took 4 hours and 4 minutes to finish.

> The original idea I had for the piece was having Shiver talking to Finn, as her toon info states that they're cousins (and aussies). However, I changed my mind after reading more into the info and seeing she was shipped with Bobette. I'll come to the Finn idea later, though!

This concludes this post! I'll be moving onto preparing the next posts, which will now start to come out on a daily basis (as i'll program them as such). Thanks for stopping by; see you soon!

-Retro

P.S: deputized, we should talk sometime; you seem really cool.

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Martin's Showtime! (Art Fight 2025)

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog. Like I've been anticipating in my last two posts, I'll begin to upload my Art Fight Attacks over the course of the week. First up is this piece, made for the user ineedacoffe!

This was a pretty good start to my Art Fight "career". I really like coffe's oc Martin , so I wanted him to be the first character to be on my attack list!

> This piece took 2 hours and 2 minutes to finish.

> I don't have that much to comment on for this piece, as it's fairly simple. I can say the background for this one was a bit hard to make, as I wanted to replicate that "90's Windows Free Screensaver" vibes it has, with the fuzzy lines and what not. I used a ton of IbisPaint effects for it (which I've already forgotten, so i don't think I'll be able to replicate it ever again, oops-)

That's pretty much it for this one! I hope everyone like it :D

-Retro

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My Art Fight Character Highlights! (...of 2025)

Hello everyone! As promised in my last post, I'm here to share the character references I've made for Art Fight! Or at least the one's I managed to make on time. As I'll elaborate in my later posts, I have a hard time managing some things. Anyway, most of the info on each character is already showcased on the references, but I'll obviously provide notes along the way!

> These six character are from an object show project I've working on for a while, but I'd like to keep details fairly vague until I have more stuff ready for it. Just know that it's going to be called Lights Camera Stardom.

> As you could notice, all these cards (even the ones coming up in just a second) include three items in the info part of the sheet. These were a bit of a last-minute idea I had when first designing these cards. I thought it would be cool to have items that, in some way, represent or tie back to the character; along with a VHS movie tape (that's significant to the character in some way within their lore).

> As a bit of unimportant trivia, Pineapple Backpack was the first character to have their card made! (Which ended up being the hardest one to draw, haha).

> Lastly, I'd like to give a shout out to @meteorshowerzz , who came up with Sodie's last name (and provided feedback on the sheet designs, just like @rerising-moon !)

> These two other characters, unlike the previous 6, are completely separate (...for now). They don't necessarily have a universe or project attached to them. They also lost the VHS tapes in their info box, as those were exclusive to the LCS universe characters.

> For some trivia, the idea of Nesquik Carton came to me at a Burger King, where I ended up ordering a breakfast combo that included a carton of nesquik.

> I. got very little trivia on Yogurt Pot, sorry folks-

Lastly there's the characters I didn't give much attention to: my SMG4 oc's. They're part of a shared fan-au I have with my close friends. Due scheduling, I wasn't able to give them proper reference sheets (except for Gamething's, who I did a while ago!). I'll definitely come back to them later on but this is all they got for now. Most of their lore can be found on their Art Fight page right here.

I think I'll leave the trivia for these characters for a later blog, as I got a ton of things to say about them!

With that, this concludes this blog. I'm really happy my oc's were so well received on Art Fight, and I hope everyone on here enjoys them just as much :D

Tune in for the next blogs, where I begin uploading all my attacks so far! See ya soon :D

-Retro

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Art Fight Announcement!

Hello again. So uh, change of plans. I'll be taking a second away from re-uploading my old art and focus my efforts on showing off my recent art from Art Fight! That's right, I'm on Art Fight this year, as I can prove with this link taking you to my account:

https://artfight.net/~RetroRubix

... and by this fancy (and totally rushed) artist highlight card:

The reason I'm doing this right now, instead of continuing the re-uploads, is due to a timing schedule, as I have to be a bit less active on social media to focus on my university finals. So I'd like to put out some content for everyone here before I inevitably go quiet. Re-uploads will still happened in between these newer posts; this is pretty much a head ups. The Art Fight posts will have small commentary on the attack I've made, which I didn't include in my original attack descriptions (Woah, exclusive content!). One last thing: I'll be re-uploading all my oc reference sheets uploaded on Art Fight onto here in the next post, which will also included commentary. Alright, that's all I got to say right now. See ya soon!!

- Retro

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You have no idea how much I enjoy this.

happy pride 2025!

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(Original date of art: 10/01/2025, published on my Newgrounds)

This first proper illustration I did for my art account (that introduction one doesn't count!). It's of Taco, from BFB, asking if you'd like to join her bank heist.

I originally made this as a general test for my art and style, messing around with effects and what not. I'm still quite proud of it, and I'm hoping of trying this style out again (as I kinda dropped it for a WHILE, oops).

-Retro.

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(Original date of art: 09/01/2024)

HELLO TUMBLR. My name is Retro, and I'm a small artist who wants to share his art. I made this account a while ago and got really lazy to port all my art over here; until today! I'll start uploading all the art I've made up to this point, along side being more active here too, promise. Anyway, here's the first art piece I've made for this Retro account, as a way to welcome everyone onto here. Enjoy!

(I also wanted to include this variant, used as my banner).

-Retro