#I even planned to do artfight this year

[wanderingchocolateeclair]

The boyos <3

[peapod20001]

Did sleeping help

No </3

[tko-draws]

Can't get on ArtFight rn so... already making plans for next year

[arolesbianism]

Ok Im normal again god Im excited for art fight

[clowncryptids]

Artfight 2024!

ClownCryptids (Team Seafoam) on ArtFight!

Hello all! Artfight 2024 will be starting in a few days and I have finally finished (mostly) updating my page for this year! I am team Seafoam! I live in CA so I've got to rep the ocean!!

This will be my second year participating in Artfight! And this year I plan to do a little mini challenge? thing?

I am going to spin a wheel to decide for who and what I will draw! For each piece I will spin to decide whether I am attacking a new person or doing a revenge! I may also use a wheel to pick the user I draw for! I am hoping this will keep my new attacks and revenges more even since last year I was mostly doing defenses...

I need people to draw for !!! If you are a part of team Stardust (I dont mind Seafoamers either tbh) plz comment on this post so I can find more people to attack!

(p.s. I will not be starting attacks until about a week in, both to dodge the initial site shutdowns and bec I am finishing summer classes!)

[animalsalvationassociation]

[ DO NOT REPOST, ALL ART & CONCEPTS WERE MADE BY ME ]

In response to this post here by @4eyedloser (for Shellington’s foot scars)

[ Shellington Mellegan (Character Ref) ]

Honestly beach episodes are probably going to be a staple on this blog because they’re really fun to draw. Was seriously stressing about what I was gonna post this week because the art block is real, but only Ocotnauts related because my brain hates me.

And I mean ArtFight is coming up so I’ve been mostly focused on that. Yes I will try to participate this year, it’s just hard for me to art under pressure so most years I either forget about it or struggle till the end of the event.

Anyways—This gave me an excuse to draw Shellington’s dad bod, and add to the headcanons. I’ll always take the excuse for pointing out unnecessary trauma. ;)

I’d say the burns were at least second degree, he was pretty close and that would’ve be extremely painful. I would say it took a while to even get off of pain meds. And you know those nerves are suffering.

(don’t just how I draw feet, it’s a skill in development . . .) 🦶🏻🦶🏻🦶🏻

(Can someone please send me/tell me the name of that one beach meme with the two types of dads—the celebrity one. Like the one guy is a really good dad and is holding his baby with a towel on their head and kissing them while the other is slinging their kid over their shoulder by the foot . . . It would be much appreciated . . . no I don’t have any plans for that at allllll)

[ This is a Octonauts AU, in no way is this canon to the OG storyline. ]

[thetobiasfinchgallery]

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[cuttledreams-bugs]

Been thinking on some stuff for a while now- and now that artfight has concluded and some days have passed, I think I've decided that, at least for a while, I'm going to walk away from publicly making artwork.

My original intention was to finish up this whole year- I even had a lot of stuff planned and in progress. But I found that after a couple months, I just couldn't find the willpower to keep doing any of it.

It was my hope that pushing myself to participate in artfight, an event I really enjoy, would maybe give that refreshing sense of motivation again. While it was lovely, I'm very glad I was able to participate and don't regret it, I've found that coming to the end I felt even more strongly that I don't have it in me anymore.

I don't really have a satisfying answer as to why. I guess I've just become acutely aware of how lonely being an independent artist is. And with situations becoming what they are (global politics, economic crisis, ai and collapse of social platforms, etc), this isn't something I can indulge any longer without being able to bring some kind of income.

Not really sure what to do with myself from this point, creating art is really the only thing of worth I've ever had, but right now it feels like decades of wasted time and it's best I just stop before I hate it. At the least, I need to stop creating art intended to share to a public for a while, and only make something for me if anything at all.

I don't expect anyone to read this lmao, I'm aware I'm just one stranger in a sea of millions. But if you are someone who's interacted with my art in any way, reblogging, leaving tags or anything else, I'm grateful for it and thank you <3

[artfightdramaconfessions]

Every year without fail I will: 1. Realize artfight is coming up again only bc my dash over various websites explodes with team cards and then I go: "oh shit, gotta prepare refs". As if my brain can only compute 1 or 2 weeks ahead at most. You'd think 2 weeks are plenty of time to still get all the stuff sorted and ref sheets done right? Wrong. 1 week crunch time between attack to get that stuff sorted out because 2 weeks obviously is too little time after all I need at least three nevermind all the months in between that were free and available to do all that nah, nah.. before being alerted to AF starting up again July does not exist apparently and after AF concludes all the other months equally do not exists I am in the void doomed to timeloop through the same process each year girlfailure style.

2. Bookmark like crazy and then despair bc mathematically the amount of booksmarks cannot be realized as artworks in a singular month but does that stop me? No. I will try anyway. (it never works out for me ever but I learn nothing I will go ham on it like a woman on a mission)

3. Due to memory problems and a lack of idk... object permanence? Mental blindness? I will realize somewhen around this time too, that I might have said to myself last year: "I will comment on this defense for me a lil later when I am less exhausted" and forgotten to follow suit with that plan. Cue the internal crisis of "should I comment fashionably super late on this or simply not engage at all at this point bc commenting now feels even ruder" but not saying anything at all is even worse and flipflop on that anxiously for a couple of days and there is a good chance it might slip my mind again. 4. So I follow my crazy bookmark system religiously and forget that other people can and will attack during AF and suddenly I have a piece I need to revenge on and that flips my entire system over. I do indeed simply forget this is a thing. Gets me every time. I just wanna throw art at people can u maybe wait with throwing back I have a system ahhhhhh.

5. What is food, sleep. normal creature comforts even. Why am I subjected to the whimsy of a flesh vessel I wanna do arting and arting only for a month straight. Why am I made to endure corporal woes. Embarrassing.

6. were in gods green earth is my pen. I just held it to do art where did it go.

7. How do you explain a therapist how you willingly succumb to madness with a smile on your face and a cramp in your shoulder each year.

8. Broooo I am so hyped for this year if ya'll can't tell.

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[quinnonimp]

IM GONNA BE DOING ARTFIGHT THIS YEAR AGAIN

i havent finished my arf card but i wanted to post something in case it takes forever !

i also still need to add all the ocs i want .. havent updated my profile or ocs since last year, but idrc (<- wasnt even planning on making any refs this year (thank god))

[farraigeart]

look who got to make one this year. strange!

started off with experimenting more with my painting style and generally doing more with expressive stuff. and then the god damn gates of hell opened come may

all i have to do is look up "tears of the kingdom release date" and pinpoint the exact day i went into vat7k lunacy because my friend and i just so happened to plan Tangled Show Viewing the day the new zelda came out. varian is everything forever i dont even know what a zelda is be quiet (<- named himself after link)

it sort of just got worse really. july is ARTFIGHT time and naturally i implemented a fun trick to keep drawing vat7k stuff: Alternate Universe. i even did an animatic. these gay things are actually getting me to really push myself

i did end up doing more stuff with dynamic poses and, occasionally, still drew my ocs. my favorite being the ability to finally show more of aerandir!! and more vat7k. so so so much vat7k

not really sure what i have planned for 2024 other than to just... keep doing what im doing. more dynamic pieces, more expressive work, and good god more time/motivation for animating PLEASE

[herosplatling-replica]

super ☆ breakroom ☆ dancing ☆ night ☆

I had some really ambitious plans for artfight this year, but I quickly had a lot of work on my plate as all of the planned slots that I had were immediately filled. I was hoping to attack every single character in the RD character tag, but there was just too many, so I had to cut it down to just staff and interns... and even then it was too much!! I didn't get to fit everyone in! I realized I had to make some cuts :( it made me sad, but I'm still very happy with the finished project. I hope to do this again sometime. Though... maybe not an animation...?? ^^;;

please check out the attack here so you can see everyone's lovely ocs!

[alienssstufff]

Do you plan on joining in on ArtFight this year?

hmmmmmm….. probably not 😔

I’m always even busier around winter (well summer break) I wish they had art fight twice a year yknow for the poor Southern Hemisphere folks who have to work

[damagedintellect]

Dazai Osamu x reader

💌 Reading into the palms of isekai bullshit:

Chapter 7 💌  

Summary: You were no stranger to isekai bullshit. It’s not like you had a problem with it. The genre took over the anime scene for years now but you try to stay away from thinking about how you would handle the situation. The last time you thought about inserting yourself into your favorite show you wrote a 100k word xReader fic for your favorite characters and you didn’t want to spend all your time consumed by the brainrot again. Never again, you promised yourself that was the last time you’d let the devil on your shoulder win. You clicked on chapter 1 to start the adventure over again but when you opened your eyes and saw Dazai O-FUCKING-samu getting choked by Kunikida you honestly hoped it was a dream.  

Notes:   With Artfight slowing down on my end I have come to feed the hungry readers...also idk why this chapter turned out so angsty bc that wasn't the plan but yeah know what it sounds about right. Another isekai so I can play around with BSD like dolls.

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💌 Word count: 2,286 💌 <= Previous Chapter | Next Chapter =>

A few days later was the day Kunikida had a very important schedule to uphold. Everyone was left to their own devices and it was a nice change of pace compared to the past few weeks. Kunikida had left a few minutes ago while Ranpo was still complaining about the lack of snacks. You had mostly finished up your tasks for the day and were acting like you were still busy so Ranpo wouldn't bother you. It's been weeks since you were relieved of your snack fetching duties but you could feel him practically directing all of his grievances at you specifically. There were other people in the office. Why did it always have to be you who gets the snacks? Aside from Kunikida and Yosano, everyone else was here. You observe Dazai as he agonizes over not being able to ruin Kunikida's day yet. You still don't know what the hell happened the other night.

All you know is that Ranpo made a suggestive comment about it which didn't help you piece anything together. Dazai had been acting weirder than normal too. It's like he was having more mood swings than usual and you’re not sure how much of it is an act. You are also not the only one who's noticed the brunette’s weird behavior, even Atsushi said something about it. Although he thought you and Dazai had an argument because apparently the brunette would tense up at the mention of your name. Even more puzzling was that the moment you were left alone with Dazai he would act one of two ways. One being that he would reluctantly cling to your side, hovering over you like he was expecting or waiting for you to do something or two he would scoff and make some excuse, no matter how stupid, to disappear. Like he actually made it a point to tell you instead of just leaving like he has in the past. Almost like he was reasoning more with himself then having the goal be informing you of his absences. As much as it was intriguing it was almost hard to watch but you didn’t want to ask him about it because who knows what can of worms that will open and you weren’t ready.

Speaking of can of worms, Ranpo has been calling your name trying to get your attention. You slammed your hands on the desk standing up to look at your senpai. "Okay I get it, what snacks do you want?"

"Chips, pocky, ramune and you know what it feels like a melon pan kind of a day!" He smiles wide, kicking his feet up on his desk. Cocky bastard.

You rolled your eyes "So the works then got it," you looked at Dazai who was still moping. "Anyone else need me to pick up anything?" The room filled with a chorus of "No"'s as you grabbed your wallet and made your way out the door. The agency would reimburse you for Ranpo’s snack habits later.

Dazai watched you leave. It's been infuriating that you refused to ask about that night and seemed to brush it off like it didn't matter. So much for that confession of yours. He was aware that, yes, technically he wasn't supposed to know that. He promised you he wouldn't tell, but you told him yourself. He can't get over the fact you haven't picked up his bitterness on the subject or that you are blatantly ignoring it all together. He doesn't understand what your play is and moreover he can't get over the irrational thought of wanting to touch you. It has been driving him insane. He doesn’t get these kinds of impulses but since you shared your feelings with him he wants to be close to you in any way you’ll have him. You were also the one who saw through and called him out on his bullshit, not many could do that so why has that stopped? Is it because you need to see his palm again? Did the alcohol mess with your talent that badly? All he has is more questions and really no way of getting answers out of you unless he talks to you like a normal person. Dazai was by no means a normal person and what was the point if he wasn't supposed to know this information to begin with. If it was anyone else he wouldn't care about the confrontation or lack thereof but he does now and he hates it.

The sound of an incoming text rang out through the office. He looked over at your desk. It was your phone, you forgot it since you stormed off. He sighed, reaching for it. You would be back soon but he was bored and all of his attempts to shake up Kunikida weren’t working either. Was he losing his touch? If he sent Kunikida a message from your phone he would probably have a better chance at fooling the blonde. When he opened up the messenger he nearly dropped the phone as he read who the incoming text was from. 

Chuuya<3

Hey, I have time today if you wanted to do the thing

Dazai gripped the phone tightly, his knuckles turning white. Why was Chuuya messaging you and what was with that contact photo! You were both naked in bed. You looked like an ethereal being while the smug redhead was holding you like he owned you, giving Dazai eyes that were taunting him. It made his blood boil. Was this why you didn’t care to find out about that night? Was this all really just a game to you and how could you betray him with Chuuya of all people! Dazai grit his teeth. Realistically he shouldn't care so why does he feel like this? He knows how demented his line of thought was but for the first time he let his jealousy cloud his judgment. You guys weren't exclusive, heck you guys weren't even anything to begin with. Just two coworkers who sometimes hung out outside of work but still he felt it was a low blow. He needs to stop his train of thought before he does something he'll regret. His emotions were already festering by the time you finally made it back to the office. He felt that itch again, the sudden urge to touch you. Why? He didn't understand it at all.

You dropped the bag of snacks on Ranpo's desk hoping that the ramune crushed a bunch of chips. This is the last time you’d be going on his snack run or else you were going to- you know what you don’t know what you could do as a counter. Ranpo kind of has you by the balls since he knows your secret. You deflated once you realized that he could actually make your life a living hell if he wanted. “Enjoy.” you sigh slouching as you turn around colliding with someone as you were grabbed by the arm and hastily pulled into the infirmary. 

Dazai had dragged you across the office without a word. It was unsettling for the others to witness. Atsushi was concerned he'd never seen such a grim expression on Dazai before. Could it be because he failed at tricking Kunikida and he needed to take it out on someone else? "Shouldn't we stop them?" He asked warily but no one made a move. Everyone continued on like this was an everyday occurrence.

Ranpo only kicked back further into his chair, opening the bag of chips "Leave 'em. You might get scarred for life if you try to intervene." Ranpo rolled his eyes. This is what you get for playing with fire. Although he doesn't exactly know what Dazai saw on your phone, he does know that the two of you were a ticking time bomb and have been the whole week since the fall of the guild. He only hopes you know what you’re doing because babysitting you was not his job unless you were getting him more snacks.

As soon as the door locked, Dazai pushed you against the wall, easily pinning your wrist so you couldn't escape. His tone was dark. It would have made you shake with terror if it wasn't so hot. Right now, the position you were in, was a sexual fantasy of yours for sure. 

"What happened to not being so easy? Huh?" He accused you, almost demanding an answer. It was jarring to hear him be this intense. 

“Um, ow! I don’t even know wha-” He cut you off with a messy kiss, aggressively biting your bottom lip as if to say don’t lie to him. You actually had no idea what he was talking about. In fact you almost thought this was all of his pent up emotions from the past few days.

 "Such a pathetic lie when you throw yourself at anyone who gives you the slightest bit of attention. Tell me was I not-"

"Who am I throwing myself at if not you?" You spat back not waiting for him to finish his monologue. You were furious because from your point of view you have no idea what the fuck he's going on about. He's the one who's been acting strange. If anything you should be the one yelling at him for not talking with you if he had an issue. Although you should have seen that coming. Technically it's what he was doing right now so you guess he did get there eventually but still you were mildly flustered and enraged with the delivery.

Dazai was silently scanning your eyes. You weren't lying to him. His fingers were digging into your wrist and your heart rate remained the same. Your eyes were clear and there were no obvious tells that your statement was false. He fucked up. He was wrong. He knew he was from the start but the impulses were too much for the rational part of his brain to stop while he was ahead. This is why he distanced himself. He wasn't capable of having nice things. He's spent so long waiting for the other shoe to drop he can't even trust that things could be different this time. As he loosened his grip on you the words cascaded from his mouth. "Then why did you sleep with Chuuya?" It shouldn't hurt him but it made his heart clench just the same. Dazai has had his fair share of one night stands. Sometimes it was nice to feel a human connection with another person. It should be no different but this was you. When did you become so important to him?

Your eyes widened in shock. He saw the photo. The trap you had set up weeks ago. Dazai was jealous, it worked. That's why he'd been acting weird. How long has he kept this to himself? Was that why he wanted you to ask about that night and the things you don't remember? Before you could register your actions your body moved on its own to close the distance between you with a tender kiss. Caressing his face you looked him in the eyes. It was now or never.  "Dazai, I am in love with you! Chuuya was only trying to help make you jealous so I could gauge if you even remotely liked me back." You blurted it out in a huff as you watched his expression drop and become unreadable. 

"Well it's a shame I don't feel the same because right now I think I hate you the most." There was no emotion to his words and he practically vanished out of thin air. Dazai needed space while he figured out what was going on in his head. Isolation was the only thing he knew that would bring him said clarity. He doesn’t regret his word choice but he also doesn’t think hate was the right word for it. He was irritated for sure but he didn’t exactly hate you. He definitely hated the situation though. The brunette was still wondering how you managed to get under his skin like this. Now that he wasn’t in the same room as you he understands the train of thought behind the picture and how Chuuya’s involvement led to the prank. It was partially his fault you even met to begin with. This also answered his questions about the redhead after the encounter. Looking back this must be how the others feel when he pulls one over on them. It was not a pleasant feeling.

 The room spun around you in a blur. It took you longer than you would have preferred to get yourself together and rush out of the infirmary. All the others pretended to mind their own business but you didn’t see Dazai so he probably bailed out of the office. You had to fix this before it was too late. Although something in the back of your mind wasn’t adding up. Why now? If he knew about the picture since that night why was it only today that he brought it up in a blind furry? There had to have been something to trigger this reaction. You don’t bother making an excuse to leave the office but you do grab your phone from Dazai’s desk. It didn’t click until you were halfway down the stairs that you had left your phone on your desk so how did it end up on Dazai’s. You frantically checked your messages and sure enough there was one from Chuuya. You frowned as you messaged him back blatantly lying about the other’s reaction to the prank. On one hand it did work as intended but how did it end up like this?

★ ★ ★ Pervious Chapters [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]  ★ ★ ★

[leadoffdouble]

Finally, I wanted to have at least one ArtFight attack that used a different medium than 2D pixel art. One of @gummi35hark's Minecraft OCs, Bubblez the drowned, was chilling in my bookmarked character list for like the whole month, as I had planned to eventually do pixel art of him. When I found out that they have another Minecraft OC who is friends with Bubblez, I thought it would be even cooler to create Blockbench models of them both and make a diorama!

I made their models by recoloring and heavily manipulating the drowned & guardian mob models and textures. I then posed them on a sand island with some underwater foliage, and rendered lighting using Windows 3D viewer (because I sure as heck wasn't learning Blender rendering in less than a week lmao). Finally, I exported the image and added the Blockbench "underwater" background to the scene. I'm super stoked with how both the models and the diorama turned out! I also sent Gummy the raw Blockbench models so they can use them however they'd like.

That was all for this year, Happy ArtFight everyone!

Characters: Bubblez & Oliver by GUMMI35HARK / gummi35hark

[bvannn]

Weekly update July 19, 2024

Another week of artfight, I’m slowing down pretty hard now and I feel awful about it. I tried to get some health stuff in a row this week but I still feel awful. I’m trying to get other stuff done, though.

Artfight: I still have a bunch of sketches on backlog, I’m going to finish up revenges first, maybe tonight but probably not. A few other random attacks as well, I might play around with styles some more. I want to try more paining-style pieces, and have an idea for what to try but need to find fitting characters.

Music: music is so fun to work on, even though I don’t have too much to show at the moment. I have an instrumental ambient piece ready, and as soon as artfight is done priority number one will be a visual to go with it. Also dug up one of my older instrumental WIPs and picked out some instruments to finish it up, just need to record melodies. Also touched up OEB some more, and fiddled with some amp sim programs. Guitar Rig 7 is good for beginners but Tonocracy has been winning me over. Big thing was playing with drums some more. Before I was using all the drums in a kit together instead of mixing and matching like you’re supposed to, but I tried playing some more this week and it’s so much better. Hoping future pieces will sound better. I’ll try to get a VPR for RR done this weekend, and start re-editing BATB.

On the topic of guitar stuff, I’m planning to spend tonight trying to see how much I retained from those couple months of lessons earlier in the year, and then attend an open house thing tomorrow to see if I need more. I’m not sure if there’s more that I need to get taught, or if the only thing bottlenecking me is just memorizing the chords and building dexterity. I don’t know if I’ll be good enough to record for my actual music yet or not but I’ll get there eventually.

Comic is also moving slowly, as predicted. Again I’ll probably go buck wild on that in August, but for now Artfight is a higher priority. Epithet TTRPG and OEBvideo are also going kinda slowly, Epithet because I’m bottlenecked on statblocks and OEB because I’m bottlenecked on time. I can try chipping at statblocks at work when I’m tired of drawing, but that relies on where I’m being put. This week I had a lot of actual work to do, but it seems like it’s leveling off again. Really I should put together more of a schedule for next week, if I try to do that it’ll be Sunday.