#people i definitely plan on attacking on artfight

[fadebolt]

I've seen some people posting their attacks collection from this year, so here's mine:

With the lovely targets being:

1. meowynn

2. aquaticnebulae

3. soul-sylver

4. sb-is-a-thing

5. saintwyrm

6. bindibites

7. phishtoast

8. pansear-doodles

9. toiletpapericecream

Decided not to ping them here, since I already did it once when I posted the attacks individually. But these are their blog names, and they're cool people with cool art - so feel free to look through their stuff!

This was an awesome first year of Artfight! Huge thanks to everyone who sent me their creations involving my powerswap scugs, I adore them all quite a lot! And thanks for all the wonderful comments and reactions to my attacks as well!

You guys were wonderful, and I hope I'll get to see you next year as well! :)

(Bonus ramblings about AF thoughts below cut. Be warned, they do be lengthy)

So when I was starting out with the site, I looked around on the internet to see what people had to say (out of curiosity, and to maybe find something helpful). And apparently, there are a bunch of entitled users that complain if the art you send them isn't "high quality" enough, or if you don't send a revenge for their attacks.

And I'm just sitting here, and wondering which Artfight did these people show up to, cus I've frankly never seen a person like that. Everyone was super sweet and appreciative when I attacked them, and I received zero scorn from attackers I didn't revenge. Perhaps it's something that happens only outside the Rain World community?

Anyhow, I ended this year with a solid 9/5, which might seem like rookie numbers for many, which... is actually kind of fair, considering that I am technically a rookie.

I really didn't expect to get attacked at all, considering that my refs were slightly rushed, and not particularly polished (something I'll hopefully get around to addressing in the meantime). Though I did have hopes that sharing my profile on Tumblr, and some Discord servers might help.

Funny thing is, I don't think any of those 5 people came from there, as they haven't interacted with me on Tumblr yet, and they haven't joined the servers that I was in. There's no way for me to confirm this, but they probably found me while browsing through the AF website itself, which is extremely flattering (especially since I initially thought that folks usually just attack their friends... turns out that ain't quite the case).

But this also proves that my theory about people liking powerswap Slugcats was actually correct! Which is great, cus they're a blast to create, and hopefully by next year, I'll get to have the other half of the cast (name ideas are 'Lightcat', 'The Crusader', 'The Solitary' 'The Augmented' and 'The Gambler', but it's all subject to change).

There were also some of my OCs which showed up in my attacks - I'm planning on adding them in, too. (So if you like necromancers, wizards that copy the spells of others, and weird fanchildren of niche ships, then I got some wonderful news for you!)

Speaking of my attacks, I definitely didn't draw nearly as much as I did for Art Month. That's because I decided it would be better to take things a bit slower, to have more fun, and avoid burnout. As I would rather send over a few attacks that I enjoyed, than to rapidly rush out like 60, to hit as many people as possible.

Sure, it'll mean that I won't get to attack as many people, but I still think it's worth it, as I get to enjoy myself more, while my target gets a better piece.

I was slightly concerned that a lot of people would find it insulting that I used a randomizer to pick targets, but nobody seemed to mind, which is great. After all, there were no bad intentions on my part, I just simply had too many people I considered worthy of being attacked, and I needed some outside help to combat my indecisiveness. There's simply too many great artists in this community!

My list consisted of SC members that stayed (I was grateful for their efforts to keep the place alive, and I felt this would be a great way to thank them), some other people from the fandom that I liked, and my attackers, who were given a multiplier of 5 to their chances, cus yeah xd

There were over 30 people there, so it's safe to say that I didn't get to most of them. I think next year, I'll give them increased chances too, and hopefully, I get around to most of 'em. (Unless I'll have to work on my thesis in July... I don't quite remember when that's going to happen. Hopefully, that won't be the case, and I'll have a bunch of free time, like this year, and I'll be able to do more than 9 attacks then. Fingers crossed)

So that's pretty much all I wanted to say here. I'm not sure if I should post any updates or uploads I do to my characters there btw. I suppose we'll see.

But the event was real fun, and I'm looking forward to experiencing it again!

[ccellardoor]

Controversial take, and no one will see this so I really don't care; this years art fight feels lame as hell. I've been on artfight for three years which ik a lot of people have been on there for way longer but still; my point is I've done like 5 attacks so far this year and I've been busy usually I have so much more but still not my point ; not counting my friends friendly fire and my cousin's attack I've gotten two attacks this year and only one of them is a revenge.

guys this is a ART TRADE game that is what it's labeled as that is what the description calls it! You don't have to revenge every attack you get cuz there's definitely some people that have attacked me but only have one oc that I don't feel I can draw or they have yet to post any characters. But still it's an art trade game the main point is to attack back people who have attacked you! So when you go 4 attacks with no revenges it starts to feel so pointless and empty it starts to make me feel burnt out!

And it's not that I don't make my account known, I've always posted on insta or Tumblr my user card, and I comment on people's characters that I plan to attack I have PLENTY of diverse characters to chose from?? Like! At some point it's like is my style not good enough for you orr ???

It not like the people I attack are busy either they post so many attacks and I'm like?? And they revenge everyone else I'll see like at some point I will go on their page and see who attacked them and who they're attacking ! It's so shitty cuz I'm like what's wrong with me why revenge everyone else but?? NOT ME PLEASE GUYS I AM GOING TO GO CRAZY... I just want to be revenged !

[meluisart]

Artfight 2024

While I am aware that ArtFight is still a few months away, I am most definitely planning on participating again this year. As such, necessary prep is being done. I've revived and cleared out my old page today and it's been updated with Foxfoe's character details.

I am still debating if I want to add Noswaith or Zatura to the character roster just to give people options but they're not necessarily the easiest characters to draw.

Will definitely bump this post/post a reminder when July comes around.

If you are participating in ArtFight please pass me your handle! I'd love to add you and attack/friendly fire when the time comes.

[mothwingedmyths]

which artfight team are u planning to be on this year (seafoam or stardust) (definitely not asking so i can choose the opposite team and attack u. i would never)

I DONT ACTUALLY KNOW YET BECAUSE I LOVE STARDUST SO MUCH BUT SO DO 90 PERCNET OF THE PEOPLE I WANT TO ATTACK?????????? BUT IM GONNA BE ECSTATIC EITHER WAY I WANTED THIS THEME SO SO BAD ANDS I THOUGHT FOR SURE IT WOULD BE ONE I ACTIVELY DISLIKED BUT NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ollyou]

haiii cereus hellaoooo are you gonna be participating in artfight next year because i had you on my list of people to attack but a series of unfortunate events made me unable to get to you ,,

HI!!! :D Good to see you !

I do plan on participating again! It really just depends on if anything happens to interrupt my plans, I suppose! I have a tendency to overwork myself on art to the point of illness (this happened in AF2023) so that’s my main concern right now with next ArtFight, but I’ll definitely try my best to attack you if I do get to participate 🥹🥹

Hope all is well!!!

[bvannn]

Weekly Update July 14, 2023

I feel like I’ve just been in a trance all week. I want to get things done, but I can’t. This could be me not getting enough sleep, me spending a lot of time at work and getting exhausted, or me not eating well, but either way these are going to continue due to circumstance. I’ll try to do what I can anyway, and eat more sugary foods, since that’s likely part of it.

I’ve not been going as hard in Artfight this week but still going hard enough. It’s a bit tricky to find people to attack due to the sheer number of weirdos on the site but I’ve been managing, and I’ve been trying to hit as many mutuals and people I follow here as I can. I’ve more lost motivation to find characters to draw than anything, but I’ll keep trying where I can.

Animation is also slow because I’ve been spreading myself so thin, but I have developed a new strategy for the sketchy loose lines I do in my illustrations to bring them into the animations. I have no guarantees that it will work but I am putting in the effort for them. It shouldn’t be too much different from the test I did with Tim and Emile, just more kinetic, more line variation, and in the new increased definition. I have only created the assets for Jon, and only imported them for one third of his rig, but I have exported all of them, and will try to import them within the next day or two. I am also slowly, very slowly, chipping away at the actual test animation for these effects. This has mostly been slow due to a lack of motivation but I’m going to try to push it. Through social circumstance I have forced myself to stay up to 11 tonight to participate in the Splatoon event, so I have extra time to work on this.

I have also been poking music stuff, as promised, and have spent a good amount of time today planning a music project. Should I go through with it is still in the air, but planning it is fun, and starting on a project with a multitude of techniques will force me to learn the program faster. Waveform does not look particularly difficult, but I still have not opened it since setting up my keyboard due to lack of motivation. I will most likely make some weird cover of some song I like and throw it on Newgrounds before the end of the summer, but I don’t plan to prioritize this unless I decide to do music for TRGA, which I have considered but would not do for the first real animation, if at all.

I am still a zombie, I will likely be for a while. I have done a good number of Artfight stuff already so I probably could quit but I do want to push for it. I want to push for everything. I need to get myself out, and to do that I have to make something worth people’s time and attention.

[ruthytwoshakes]

Howdy everybody!

it’s June! What! It was March yesterday I think,,,, urgurgh

But actually wait this is super exciting!! I’m out of my depressive slump which means I get to use the rest of June to prepare for artfight!

I’ll still be posting here, but it’ll be just my preparations + artfight attacks until August. I’ll be tagging everything with “Daffys Artfight 2023” so if you don’t want to see soooooo many skeletons and my cool swag characters than block that tag babey B)) and I’ll see you in August with more tf2!

And since I am very much developing a special interest with tf2, I’ll be doing attacks on tf2 ocs! If you want to attack me and draw my little meow meow Glider, than I’ll love you forever and ever and draw your little guy too teehee

Alrighty! Here’s the breakdown for this years artfight:

Until July 1st, I’ll be redesigning, updating, and writing my characters + (hopefully) posting about them on here! Also I’ll be bookmarking characters during this time, so send me your little guys during this time >B)

When the teams are decided I’ll make sure to use the templates that go along with it and finally edit my profile lol.

Every year for artfight, I do a mass attack with a bunch of skeleton characters! Last year was about 70, this year I’m planning to do 100 and actually finish it this time! As soon as artfight starts I’ll begin planning out my sketch and working on editing a nice little speedpaint for you all.

If I’m able too, I’d love to start a chain with someone and give my characters some friends! Last year I did one with Sam, my most littlest guy, and it was super fun!! (I’ve also got a lot more characters this year that I’ve been wanting to flesh out hehehe)

And that’s about it! I’ll add on some art I’ve been working on below

Here’s the personification of my process of creating characters! That’s a mouthful though, so he’s just called the Creator. Silly guy. As old and as young as time itself. Fuzzy.

Here’s some WIP character designs! I’m struggling a bit for inspiration on the top two, but fuck it we ball.

Thank you for reading! And I hope to see ya there! (My user is DaffoDuck) or https://artfight.net/~DaffoDuck

Well howdy again,, did you think there was secrets down here?? Because there is MUHAHAHA

here’s some tf2 plans and progress for my ongoing projects

The tf2 horror thing I’ve been working on! Sure have been working on it! Most definitely my most bodacious dude. H. I’m just mainly struggling with the bigger meaning of it,, got the plot all done,,,, now gotta somehow make it anti-capitalist. I gotta go analyze some more horror stories,, gotta go back to the scp phase.

I absolutely adore the child mercs that people have come up with, so I wanted to try my hand at it! I’ve got a real fun story going on, and I’m involving the classic mercs! I’ve changed them up quite a bit though because they’re much younger in this, and teachers,, hehheheh. Basically I stuck them all in a summer camp,, imagine LumberJanes and Gravity Falls with tf2 humor. Kinda terrifying when I write it out

OOOOO IM ALMOST DONE WITH A REALLY COOL THING!!!! I just need to finishing a little bit of writing but I’m almost done with my take on a class swap! As far as I can remember it goes like this: Heavy is Medic, Medic is Heavy, Sniper is Scout, Scout is Sniper, Pyro is Demoman, Demoman is Pyro, Spy is Soldier, Soldier is Engineer, Engineer is Spy. GHHRGRRRRR IM SO FUCKING EXCITED

I have a lot more but I forgor because it’s 5am in the fucking evening what oh my god goodnight!!!!!!! SHIT,!!!!!

[deffers]

Artfight Attack #5-- Four by @jackofstuff!

This one took quite a bit longer than expected. Major miscalculation on my part, primarily. But how many people can say they've animated a circulatory system for artfight?

So the basic theory was-- hey, this guy's made of a collection of pretty smooth shapes, I should be able to smooth together some parts, use an array for the tail, and fill out the circulatory system with Blender's curve object! Easy-peasy. Only, I neglected the fact that that workflow only really makes sense with opaque masses-- and our siphonophore-inspired friend here is, well, quite obviously translucent. That means that, about halfway through building the body, I just got a deep sense of foreboding as I realized that, somehow, I would have to scrape together continuous meshes for the various body parts. At the same time, a commenter on stream during the Scrapney project mentioned that automatic weight paints on Blender were more or less trustworthy, so I figured I should be alright. I neglected there to realize that is based on the assumption of a static T-pose or A-pose, and obliviously just kept developing the body of the character in the natural pose provided in the reference. Eventually I had to actually retopologize the body and that took north of ten hours all on its own, because it would, because I hadn't prepared for that outcome whatsoever. Blender's included remesher wasn't good enough to deal with it, I tried that. Setting up the curves was easy-- setting them up to move independently of, but constrained by the body? That was hard. Lots of hooking curves to empties and parenting empties to individual vertex sets ensued.

I think one of the bigger blows was definitely the weight painting. It seems like blender bugged out? Certain parts of the mesh, no matter how many times I weighted them zero, remained influenced by certain bones. The flickering you see on the top left of the heart in the video is a result of that I could not get rid of-- and of course, I was out of time as well. Given that this dude's got more bones than Scrapney did, well. You can guess how that went.

Still, though, lot of firsts. First time using sculpting in a workflow, first time using weight painting, well, ever, first time using a deformable mesh, let alone two, in an artfight project. To say nothing of my debut use of volumetrics.

The heart effect, which I'd originally planned for, ended up being the easy thing. It was all the unforeseens along the way that really gave me the boot. What was, in my unimaginable hubris, estimated to take only six hours ended up actually taking, like... forty-seven? Bit of a miss there. I still can't help but feel proud of the final result, though.

[rainy-art]

my (unfinished) 3rd artfight attack! this is for Thelilredpen, of her character Lucy :)

I unexpectedly had some plans with people in the last couple days of july so i didn't have enough time as I thought I would to work on this. Didn't quite get to finish it so some of it is a little rushed (esp the shading. and I forgot the gold details on the dress) but I tried my best given the time I had!

some bonus sketches/alternate versions under the cut:

Here are the 2 initial sketches. I wasn't sure which post I wanted to go for at first.

The second one seemed to have a more interesting composition than the first one, but I knew it would be more challenging because of the extra details like the bench.

I tried to see if zooming in on the first pose would fix its boring composition, but after blocking in some quick colors, I still felt like it was a little flat. (However, if I had chosen this simpler version, maybe I could have gotten the whole piece done in time?)

So, I then went back to the second sketch and cleaned it up a bit:

And then blocked in some colors and shading, messing with color balance and gradient maps until I ended up with a version I liked:

From there I was just trying to get it to look as nice as I could in the time I had left. I wish I could have gotten the final pass of shading in, because the 'final' version definitely looks more flat than this color study.

I kind of want to go back to this at some point and work on it a little more, just to try to do it a little more justice and get it to look as finished as I would have normally liked to, had I had a bit more time. (or even just to make the dress look slightly less weird, lol)

As a bonus for reading this far, here is the pattern I made for the wallpaper, if anyone wants to use it!

(The silk damask pattern on the bench I made a long time ago, so it's probably buried in my files somewhere - but I can dig it up if anyone wants that pattern too :) )

[animalinvestigator]

your art is like super insanely immensely inspiring to me. like theres just so much unapologetic personal intent in it and i love that a lot , it makes me realize that i can care a lot less about when im making my own art if its "weird" or if other people would think its hard to understand. ive been having a weird art intent crisis recently so it's really inspiring to see your stuff around this time is what im saying. im excited to attack you on artfight this year(Because im planning on doing that) and the little bit weve talked is actually awsome (I would message more but im awful at coming up with things to say that arent just so how is the weather........<- said in a joke tone but its true)

Wow what a high compliment, i am so glad that this is how my art appears to you; i had a similar crisis, about 2 years ago, where i felt completely adrift with my identity in my art, and felt like i couldn't even recognize or understand what i was making; it's a difficult feeling to wade through, and i don't think its a crisis that's fully able to be resolved in a world where there are so many extraneous factors and questions you have to ask yourself to interrogate Why you're drawing. But I think sitting in that crisis and just trying to capture whatever makes you feel strongly, even if it is obtuse, or "pointless", or appeals to no one but you, is all that an be done sometimes. ultimately i ended up asking myself, does intent matter? if you can catch the feeling of being excited to create, then why you're doing it becomes irrelevant, because you're gaining from it just by doing it, rahter than through the results of your intent or the thing you produce. that's what helped me! (It's also why i draw like 200x less these days LOL i only do it when theres something i genuinely want to make)

i hope you can get to a point where you feel better about it .I'm touched you'd want to drwa something for me, i'll definitely be looking forward to it!! n_n

[artfightdramaconfessions]

Hi hello! Hope you don't mind me popping in and talking a bit teehee

Artfight has been feeling quite ... impersonal this year. I'm not sure why, but the vibe feels much different than events past and it's bothering me a little bit haha

I'm a premium donator to the event, i'm pretty active on the discord server, and I typically have put out about 70-100 fully done attacks every year i've participated in Artfight. I basically sell my soul to this event every July and literally plan my life around it at times. I love it so much!

This year however i've had a lot of problems of ... i guess "poor sportsmanship" is the word for it. Maybe?

I've ran into a good handful of people who have directly DM'd me asking if i would attack their specific character just. Out of the blue? And some of them would be *super* insistent on it too, messaging me multiple times throughout the day asking again and again. Yet i've never had this issue in the past.

A part of me being a donator, is that i get featured on the front page every so often if you refresh enough times. So because of this, i also tend to get more attacks than the typical user. At least that's what i've observed, having as many defenses only halfway through wither v bloom as i did from the ENTIRETY of Steam v Cyber . And while i still try and attack as much as i can, I definitely have had a hard time catching up with my defense numbers. And apparently someone noticed this, and decided to personally DM me and call me selfish and a bitch for it? How i'm just in the event for free art without giving anything in return? While i've been trying to do at *least* 3 attacks a day and often times even more? I never had this issue in years past either. Though this may be a thing donators have to deal with and never personally had to until now.

I've just had a lot of negativity & begging come my way this year and it's frankly getting a little tiring ;w; ... Is it just me? Am i overthinking this? Has it always been like this? I don't know. Sorry. I just wanted to talk about it, thank you for listening. Have a great day :)

[the-worm-man]

I have a different idea for what I might do with artfight this year, I’d like some feedback!

Instead of just throwing all of my OCs in a profile all random-like, instead I would create some kind of world or city where a bunch of my OCs that I don’t have anything planned for all live and interact with each other, and i would encourage other people to attack by drawing our characters interacting together.

The character’s profiles would all be grouped instead of having individual characters just for ease of access. I would still absolutely love it if I got standard attacks and would definitely attack back, but I would encourage character-to-character interaction because honestly it helps me get to know your characters much better!

Unfortunately, this would mean that characters from games i have planned, like Worm or Motza, wouldn’t be on my profile. But on the plus side, you’ll get to know more of these characters that I didn’t plan on using for anything big!

What are you guys’s thoughts?

[daaziscoolbesties]

i yearn for one(1) thing only, and that is to have a nice, simplistic, cartoonish artstyle. an artstyle that doesnt rely on anatomy, but the "movement" of the drawing, if you get what i mean.

i dont want realistic proportions and traditional colors and basic poses and gradient shading, i want funky lil dudes in funky poses with funky styles littering my sketchbook :( but alas i havent figured out how to develop that kind of style yet, my brain wants anatomy to look nice but also i dont want to draw eyes. i dont want to take time out of my day to learn how to draw lips i want to draw a line that extends past the characters face. i dont want all my characters to have pointy chins with curved cheeks i want their heads to be round and friend-like or full of sharp edges depending on their personalities and styles. i want to give them all not-quite human ears, blob feet, simple faces, but at the same time i want enough detail to convey the story or emotion im trying to tell.

ive spent so much time recently agonizing over how to use 3d model websites, using real-life references and tracing over them for practice, color-picking from real images to try and do realism and failing miserably, but you know whats easier than that? funky little dudes. little dudes who do not care if their legs are too long or their hair is too bouncy. i dont want my characters to look human.

ive spent enough time on the artfight website to realize that most people who classify their characters as "human" have the most basic ass designs (no offense to people who like basic human designs its just not my thing) or its like dnd-medieval style outfits which i cant draw for the life of me (ive tried). again no offense to people who actively enjoy and draw characters like that. i just need my dudes to have that certain,,, off-ness to them. tails are cool. wings are swag (especially if they arent even like,, fully attached,, ), elf ears are so wonderful to me no matter how much theyre overused, horns are so much fun to draw, and colors!! i have no knowledge in the color theory department so this works great for me!! the only thing i really know is dont shade with black, other than that i just colorpick from references usually but i dont want to do that!! i want the colors to hurt people's eyes but in a satisfying way. like the character's design is so nice to look at that you dont mind your eyes hurting a bit. like how im enjoying writing this post even though its 2 am and the brightness on my computer wont go any lower.

and then another thing ive noticed from being on the artfight website is that a lot of people classify their characters that are anthro/have anthro features under humanoids/monsters. like i made a google form to find some people to attack and someone sent me in a character with some sort of animal (wolf? idk) arms and legs. like dude!! peak character design i love her. but me personally? i cant draw that shit, its so hard for me. i tried a while back and its just Not my thing. nothing against furries i just. cant. and i dont want to either.

and i got another submission that i accidentally deleted that was like full anthro/wolf-like like my comrade,,, i cannot draw animals what makes you think i can draw an animal who acts like a human lmao. i can do like. very basic tails, and also animal ears but i cant do the arms and legs and such i just dont know the anatomy, and i know i was talking about how i dont want to care about anatomy but i feel like for anthros you really do need to know at least basic animal anatomy so you know how the limbs look and shit and i dont have that knowledge and dont feel like gaining it.

and then there were some submissions that i absolutely adored. there was one that like, was vaguely human shaped but definitely was not a human. they had a dark-ish lavender colored skin and horns and tusks and like goat ears and a sorta fluffy tail with spikes on it and they had wings and such and they were such a pleasure to draw i love them. and they had a fairly simple outfit too, nothing too complicated. and then i also enjoy object head characters, theyre so neato to me. i got one of those and i really wish i had the motivation to work on it cause it looks so fun.

i want to make funky characters but id have nothing to do with them because the only book i ever tried writing (key word tried - never got past planning it out) had strictly human characters in it, and most of the books i read are humans/humans with powers in situations specific to them so id have no idea what lore to make with the dudes. assuming i have the motivation to make lore and backstory because honestly i just really enjoy character designing its super duper fun.

(side note a song about trucks doing the deed came on just now and its interrupted my flow, apologies).

i only have three actual characters right now. one is an original roleplay oc whos design is literally athletic shorts, an oversized long sleeved grey sweatshirt, long purple hair, and demon horns. the second one is my persona whos design some sorta medival knight outfit kinda thing? but not ugly it looks really cool (idk one of my friends designed it bc i won some contest from him but the drawing was on a super small scale so idrk the details,,,) with a plague doctor mask and crown, and shoulder length wavy brown hair, dyed bright pink at the end. and then my last one im not too comfortable using other places because theyre a character my friend is using in the story hes writing, and thats really the only place theyve been used. but theyre easily my favorite and im already writing a ton so ill talk about them too.

they're a sorta elf species thing from another planet, with pale green skin and pointed ears. they also have a tail, its like,, super thin, but with a feathery bit at the end. probably not the texture of a feather but i dont know how else to describe it. they have short, curly, almost-draco-malfoy-blonde hair that when it gets too long they can put in a man bun. their eyesight is kinda shitty so when they got to earth, they were exploring some supply closets around the airship. drop off area. thing. like airport but for rocketships and also fancier. yeah. they were exploring that area and found a nice big pair of round glasses with grey frames. and they also found a cowboy-style hat and a sharpie so they wrote their name on the underside of the brim of the hat and stole the hat and glasses (but left the sharpie in the supply closet).

yeah theyre my favorite, my absolute beloved, my child, so cool. i want more characters like them but with maybe a bit more snazzier designs. theyre super cool and all but they could have more pizzazz if they werent in a story where its too late to give them more pizzazz. i just want to be able to give my characters thigh-high boots with a bunch of buckles and fluffy hair with tons of accessories crammed in and abnormally large and long ears that can harbor many piercings and horns that can hold rings on them and special little details on their outfits like who knows what but i dont have any characters to do that too, so i have to make them from scratch, which is always hard especially when you have artblock.

and i also have like 17 characters i need to fully draw, line, and maybe color for artfight before august 1st. so i dont know. i have many things to do and plenty of time to do it but instead i spend my time halfway watching repetitive youtube videos that get boring or sleeping all damn day because i stay up too late doing things like this or i just do nothing at all and its tiring and frustrating but i also feel nothing about it like theres no consequence if i dont do it besides you know. not doing it, not gaining that experience, not making something i enjoy.

so i should do it but i dont for whatever reason, i think its called executive dysfunction but im not sure. this post started out very differently than it ended and i said somewhere up there that i was writing this at 2 am but now its almost 3. this is so many words why couldnt i have put this energy into something productive

[rielzero]

Artfight Exhaustion

I am definitely too tired to continue or try to make bigger pieces by the end.

Unfortunately this has to be the most disappointing artfight so far, mostly for myself- because I couldn’t draw better stuff. I hyped myself up too much and only could do really small things by the end. I’m glad people loved my chibiheads. I’m just hoping next year won’t be this bad for me.

The arts I’ve gotten from people, mostly been fighting my friends, are amazing. And I’m very very happy with them.

But I have to remember that I do have chronic health problems.. And making big plans like special artfight twitch streams aren’t in it for me. I just can’t do much in the summer and I should remember that for next year.

Man. I feel awful.

But on the bright side, I was able to have nice exchanges with people. And my chibiheads weren’t unwelcome. I reached my goal; 400 attacks total (This counts all years together.)

I’ll be focusing on adopts and personal projects now that the weather is slowly cooling down. Maybe do a few summer activities. Focus on my health.

After that It’s webtoon / personal art full time for a bit I think. I can’t promise myself too much, knowing otherwise I’ll just feel largely disappointed due how easily my body just goes ‘’nope, suffer.’’

Fun stuff is coming up. Several shows I love and am excited for are releasing or getting sequels and continuations. I watched the thor love and thunder movie, Wakanda forever is coming out later this year- Next month we have She-hulk. I am going to be stuffed with all my fav stuff by the end of the year.. New god of war game. ajshjfhkh new pokémon. Man.

I have no reason to be bummed. But I just am, I guess over-hyping artfight is what it does. I wonder what next year will be like for me. Maybe I’ll have to skip it for the first time if the weather gets worse next July.

I’ll be a bit more active in blogging once my mind has settled down. Maybe talk about my fangasms a bit, nerding out. All that stuff.

[blazingflareon]

so artfight ended

and tbh im,, kinda sad

it gave me so much motivation to draw and getting whats basically fanart was a whole new level of exciting adfkjhl (it also got my ass into gear to finally make proper refs of my oc’s) plus it gave me more confidence in drawing other people’s characters as well bc wow did i have Big Anxiety for the first few

but yeah i’m definitely planning on doing it again next year!!!

if anyone wants to see all my artfight attacks in one place i have a deviantart folder and collections on pixiv! (and on my artfight itself ofc) they’re also all tagged #artfight 2020 on my blog