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I Finally finished my Art Fight Team Card!!!! ٩(ˊᗜˋ )و Not completely happy with it but have you seen the date, the time is upon us!

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The art fight themes are out!!!╲(｡◕‿◕｡)╱

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Hel and their flags.

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Meet Hel! A.k.a. a character I made specifically for a horror rp group I joined. These were supposed to be just basics refs but I kinda got a little too into it (ᵕ—ᴗ—). It is what it is though. (Bonus solo images of just them, no effects under the cut.)

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Intro and Extro Art Fight Ref’s (Bonus Outfits Under the Cut.)

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Unity updated Ref Sheet! + Bonus Outfits Under the cut (Drawn for Art Fight 2025)

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My Boy Celsius! But chibi-fied!

(and in color!)

Drawn as a parallel to this post:

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Celsius Child of the Shallows (a.k.a. Fahrenheit's younger brother) : Side Ref + Size Comparison

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Fahrenheit: Update Color Ref Sheet.

Fahrenheit (Fish Head) Ref Sheet. (More Ref’s + Fun Facts under the cut)

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Finally, at long last… my art fight refs are done!!! ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜

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OMG!!! This looks so cool and fun!!! Definitely giving it a shot...

Okay, so I didn't really have an OC I wanted to stuff into a ball so i just messed around with the character creator and this what the result :].

Put Your OC's in a BALL tag game! >:D

Got my current Picrew to the point were I feel ready to post it. It's way smaller than the other once but I'll keep working on it as I do have parts of it I want to add over time. (btw. if you have any style of clothing you want me to add, please tell me!)

Also, thank you to everyone who voted on this Picrew and all of you who helped me underway!!! 😊💖

But enough about that. Let's get to the tag game! Please use this Picrew to put some of your beloved OCs in a ball (It's for their own good after all)

https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/2676970

Tagging: @heroes-villains-side-blog, @piplupfluffwritingstuff2 @puddleslimewrites @thepenultimateword @tratieisdabest and everyone else that wants to join ✨

I put Kim in the ball. Was a bit hard to make them since the Picrew dose not have either red glasses nor brown colours. but the vibe is still there. :P

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A visual look at the journey I took on my most recent artistic endeavor + significant commentary.

Drafting took my attention for the first 2 days or so of my attempt. I really wanted to make sure I had a good grasp on @/piplupfluffwritingstuff2 character before I started doing any alterations . So I made a bunch of sketches. Starting off human before slowly moving on to more mer like concepts. Then once I had an idea of what Mer Aurelis would look like, I started drawing thumbnails for potential final submission's.

After picking one i finally decided it was time to get started on...

Attempt #1! Shown above and Attempt #2 (Image unavailable). Both sketched in pencil and were meant to be finished in ink.

Now, obviously both of these attempts were scrapped. I have multiple reasons why I didn’t like Attempt #1 with the big ones being I didn’t feel like it showed off the character’s design in a way I was satisfied with and a persistent feeling that I could do better. So I tried again….

Attempt #2 was so bad it made me change mediums. I was not happy with it in anyway, so much so that I cannibalized the drawing and used it as the back side for a bunch of Mini-drawings done in color pencils.

Things were not going great but I persisted.

Deciding to try anew (but with acrylics this time) I began on...

Attempt #3… as you can probably tell that does not look like Aurelis. I rolled with it and semi-finished the painting anyway but like, this was definitely a failure.

Deciding to take a step back. I made the decision to make another ref for Aurelis. To better homogenize things…

Behold, Aurelis’s Mermaid Design Full Body, Colored Ref Sheet. (Incomplete. Front Facing Only. A proper turn around would have taken too long unfortunately.)

A drawing that would become the base for my next attempt…

Attempt #4, a mix of ink pens and colored pencils. This was almost the one I turned in but the persistent feeling of “I can do better remained” so I sat on this one for a bit.

After some thinking I realized I didn’t like how the eyes looked, hated the background, wasn’t employing the full capabilities of ink or colored pencil by mashing them this way, and in general wasn’t vibing with it.

So I gave it another go, changing mediums once more came..

Attempt #5...

So, I deleted Attempt #5. All that needs to be known about it was that it was a purely digital drawing and that I grew frustrated with very quickly leading to it's unfortunate demise.

At this point I was felling thoroughly disheartened. I had been working consecutively on this project for about 7 days at that point with little success and the burnout was really starting to kick in (to my despair) . So I decided to take a break...

For like.... less than a day.

Because in the late evening of Day 8 I started on...

Attempt #6. I worked on it mostly throughout days 9-10 at a leisurely pace. All in all I’m actually really happy with this attempt. My only real problem with it is that it felt too casual.

Attempt #6 was drawn on a piece of scrap paper and was more intended as a quick sketch to see if I could still nail Aurelis' vibe after all the failed attempts. Making it more a glorified sketch on par with the drafts then a genuine attempt and for that reason I just couldn't let this be it.

So in the late evening of day 10, I picked up my tablet, and using one of the discarded failed scans of Attempt #4’s line art, I started on Attempt #7.

Which became my ultimate submission to @/writeblr-art-trade Mermay Edition. Which can be viewed here:

Some Notes On Attempt #7:

Finished it in the late morning of May 13th, 2025.

Took me 30 hours to complete among the spread of 3 days. With the Journey it took to get there taking about 13.

It's my 100th drawing on Ibis Paint X!!! (My Preferred Drawing Program).

My 5 year old sister saw the drawing and felt inspired to make her own based off of it.

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After a solid 7 attempts and a ton of bonus work…

Fate has granted me mercy!!! I’ve finally completed @piplupfluffwritingstuff2 OC Art Trade: Aurelis! Done as a part of @writeblr-art-trade Mermay Edition.

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❤️❤️❤️

OC art trade: Fahrenheit

I just read that she had beef with a group of seagulls and ran with it. Was so much fun to draw, (even tho I struggled a lot with her head) :D

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Bonus Colors Sheet + Old Graphic.

Fahrenheit (Fish Head) Ref Sheet. (More Ref’s + Fun Facts under the cut)

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Fahrenheit (Fish Head) Ref Sheet. (More Ref’s + Fun Facts under the cut)

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