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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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on the topic of art fight tips my primary one is remember it is for fun.

that means there's no restriction on art quality. it means you can do as much or as little as you want. it means you can choose to only receive art or only give art. it means you can spectate and not do anything at all.

a lot of people burn themselves out each year trying to pass a standard that they feel there Should Be, but there isn't. you're allowed to just do the fun parts even if you feel like you "could" do more. you don't have a work obligation for drawing free stuff for people. it's literally fine. you can just enjoy it.

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Ready to Fight!

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oh yeah baby. come to oc world

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TEAM CRYSTALS LETS GOOOO 💎💎💎💎💎 I really like both themes this year again, but crystals just... its more me. I was a dino kid but I also hnggg shiny rock

https://artfight.net/~MyUniverseinaBox

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Sup gamers I'm participating in art fight again

I'm on team Crystals >:)

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I thought this challenge looked fun!! I used Euphrasie from In Stars and Time.

also I think I did a good job with the eyes closed one if you ingnore how far away her head floated

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why do i keep seeing whole videos on advice for artfight from “veterans” or whatever. here’s all the advice you need:

you don’t need to draw every day

you don’t need to fully render every drawing, sketches still count and the person receiving it will still love it

you don’t need a fully polished ref sheet for every single character, having a basic one or even just a colour palette along with whatever other art you’ve done works fine in most cases

you don’t need to draw a fully rendered piece every single day do not burn yourself out or injure yourself for funny little internet points good lord

boom done there’s your 15 minute video

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Time for artfight soon! :D Artfight profile over here <3

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Whoop whoop, I'll be in Team Crystals this year!! :D

Find me on Art Fight~

I also offer you these attack thumbnail frames I made! You can find them (and others) on my free resources Toyhouse!

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ART FIGHT ART FIGHT

I'm not sure how much I'll get to draw this week and wanted to have an icon to feel all ~festive~ before the annual matching icons I do with my partner are done, so crystal dino time!!

The teams this year are so fun :D

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Updated my Art Fight thumbnail decals to include the new teams!! Free to use for anyone who wants them :D

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Are you even real...?

Struck by the impulse to draw these two because they have so much angst and dysfunction potential. Like. Ow.

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If you do end up giving your oc EDS and POTS, I would love to see them!! Especially if you're adding them to artfight!! (Also hi!!!!)

HIII :D

Nemesis/Nessie (they/she/it/neos) definitely has at least POTS!! She's my health vent character and while the verdict is out if I actually have POTS, I have the symptoms, so ze has inspiration from my own experiences~ (Though they've got more going on than I do)

I don't really have great refs so Nessie prrrobably won't be on Art Fight this year but sneaky secrets for the brave if anyone wants to draw them: toyhou.se OCs Art Fight character Nessie on toyhou.se

Nessie is an ambulatory wheelchair user with POTS and magic-induced fatigue who uses crutches on good days

It escaped to an unfamiliar planet named Munanhil after five years trapped in an awful pocket dimension called Dismeil (belongs to @erradox). The escape involved a magical explosion and other chaos, and she failed to get out before getting cursed by Dismeil's resident god.

Nessie now has to figure out how to live life in a new place while deeply sick, no longer able to use their magic, and getting regular impulses to find the god that cursed them and be consumed by it.

Also she's a sassy, grumpy, dryly silly nerd and I love em dearly

...Nessie's also, like, the main OC I've been drawing lately

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Wild to me that this reached 2k-

Thank you for all the love! <3

I was thinking about witches in Madoka Magica even though I haven't watched that in an age and a half.

This led to me wanting to draw Loop in a paper cutout esque style with Siffrin more rendered

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Semi-annual tradition of drawing my OC Elcycinu (any pronouns) being dramatic for Friday the 13th~ No specific rules to it besides relax and have fun

I highly recommend making a tradition of drawing something with the same themes, it's fun to see a collection of different approaches to the same idea over the years

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[Image ID: A pencil drawing of Field and River from the In Stars and Time fanfic A Field By the River. Field is mostly covered by a cloak, though their face can be seen looking out over a steep rocky beach and ocean view from the top of an incline. River holds their clawed hand and looks at them with a soft, concerned expression. /.End ID]

I love this so much 🥹🩷🩷🩷🩷

Art of the amazing @magicluckacorn Hoop, this is part of their story on a03! I wanted to draw the scene of them walking away from the beach and this was made around the same time as my star gazer Komì doodle <3

If you want to read their story, you can find it here! (Click the here, ;>)