#IM SO HAPPY ITS DONE IN TIME FOR ARTFIGHT

[kazehita]

sona ref v2 after poking and prodding at it for ages

[smittyw]

bry turnaround HOORAY!!

[seawing-vibes]

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYPONY ! ! Here’s some art summary thangs <3 ! Template is by Mintcokev on DeviantArt !! I did one of full pieces and one of Sillay Doodles

Explanations of every piece & stuff is below read the readmore ! + links to the full work if its posed online !

First Template:

January -> This Sora Piece ! I am honestly still super proud of how it turned out , it was fun to work on and looking at it still gives me that nice vibe I was in while drawing it

February -> This headshot of my OC Elk! I developed and expanded on her story this year and did some headshots for their TH, still super proud of how the shading came out here ,,

March -> lmao nothin , not sure what happened in March but I dont have anything there aside from sillay Doodles

April -> This design of Blaze! One of my fav designs I’ve done recently .. shes just so sillay To Me

May -> This piece of my friend and I’s cat ocs ! Stickpaw & Frostclaw, two silly fellas <3 something possessed me here I’ve never drawn a kibby this well since and Im still super proud of this

June -> This reference of my oc Dee!!!! ITS DEE ! ! EVERYONE SAY HI TO DEE <3 ! ! ! ! ! I was so happy to finally give her a proper ref , shes one of my favorite ocs of all time and this came out so well , it looks so much like her!!!!

July -> This artfight attack! This piece was honestly just a blast to work on, the background and frame design and expression were all fun to illustrate

August -> These refs of my lomp ocs! Lomps are fictional guys made by my good friend and August was just the Month for them. These guys are (bottom to top) Fizz, Roe, and Skipper! They’re . Normal <3

September -> This piece of my fursona Kenny ! ! Just a fun piece to work on again, the colors came together way better than I thought they would

October -> This piece of my oc Houndcall! They’re feeling normal about their leader being possessed! This was like a weird experimental painted piece and ou .. I really loved working on it I wanna do more things with that method

November -> Not posed online! Surprisingly, this is a wip of a self-portrait I’m doing for class! Fathead Minnows and Rainbow Trout !! This canvas is massive (taller than me ,, which aint much but still!!) and I’ve been cracking at it for a while but hammered out the details of the trout in November so! It’s acrylic but I really wish I could’ve done oil instead .. acrylic dont blend well

December -> The final fella ! My idiot son ! Also not posed online , this is a linocut printed on hand-made paper! Fun fact, I make my own paper and my own Lino cuts as my main medium, I just cant afford the proper transfer ink, but I got some from school to use so ! My idiot dragon linocut son was born ! I hate him because he wont print proper but this piece ended up working out. Its lino-ink on handmade paper with red micron pen over it

Second Template:

January -> DNA Helicase

February -> Valentine’s Day Gift <3 !

March -> Not (publicly) posted online doodle of my epic oc Anton Bayheart giving his grandson a thumbs up :)

April -> Not (publicly) posted doodles of my ocs Sebastian (left) and Dee (right) (you saw her ref earlier <33) having a normal convo !

May -> A shot from This video of my friends ocs … the one depicted is Quickpaw <3

June -> Not posted doodle of Breezewhipser giving Rippletooth some good advice (it was not good advice) (ripple just learns hes aro)

July -> Not (publicly) posed doodle of my Oc’s Garret (BALD) and Benny (TIRED) . Also just two normal guys (they’re divorced) (and obsessed with eachother)

August -> This doodle of my ocs Savi & Skipper (Skip’s ref is in August first template <3) . Music taste

September -> a small part of this cat sketch page ! Beetlekit getting bullied by his cousins

October -> This doodle of Skipper . I appreciate him

November -> I dont know where this came from actually. Its my friends oc’s Redstone and Bumblebuzz staring kitty-like at my oc Specklestep (she is married to Red and Bumble is their daughter)

December -> Doodle of Tide from this whiteboard ! !

Have a great new year everyone ! ! ! Thanks for reading through all that if you did lmao

[verm1c1de]

i did,,, this thing,,,, fur patricia,,,, beclaws i couldnt resist.

no, which is a little bit why shes a weirdo. all of her friends are older adult people and it took her a while to learn how to interact with kids her age. jeremy and mavis the 40 year old watchdogs are great confursational partners though

motherless behavior

p good, with both of them! i put in her artfight bio her more,, complex feelings. but it gets better as she gets older and chills out a little tbh. she was just a very anarchic child

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

older patty stores things in her hat, which isnt bottomless or purrticularly magical, just has cartoon physics. mostly witchy things like demon summoning ((and subsequent exorcism)) materials. and bugs. lots of bugs. especially centipedes

taking ofur the world

not much of a nightmare haver! purrobably worrying that no one will like her. worries less about it as an adult

yes. peepy taught her. purrobably training dummies! or watchdogs.

nope

she wears 3 pieces of clothing and none of them are shirts, pants, skirts, or dresses. not even a poncho

no idea! shes not scared of being alone and shes not scared of any dangerous sitches, not that she gets in too many of those. bravest baby

purrobably sleeping with her fatha on the banjo playing his tunes

nope

shes purretty bad at both, honestly. shell give mew a nickname but thats beclaws she doesnt remember who mew are. mewre "igor" now and mewre gonna help her collect these bloodworts

she likes hoarding things,,,, lots of those things are junk

happiness :))

necronomicon picture book ^_^

depends,,,,, she doesnt like people giving her unsolicited advice but she loves talking about the things she knows, and she also loves people being her minions,,,

inconsiderate and difficult to change. she wants to make furiends and people to like her but she gets so excited and caught up in the things she likes that she doesnt consider ofur people sometimes, and then hates being called out. she gets better at this with age,,,

look at that guy. what an idiot. im so much better

depends,,, younger patty would blame ofur people, but older patty does end up learning that sometimes shes the purroblem,,,,

people who are understanding and willing to listen

people who think they know the best/better than her

theyre eifur her immediate best furiend or she pushes them away. hardly any in-between

easy. and if one of her furiends is guilty, she knows, shes just defending them anyways. god furbid someone has a little fun

she hasnt interacted with children much, esp not when she was one. children eifur love her or are terrified of her. they appurreciate someone who takes them seriously, but also,,, scary bugs,,, scary lady,,,, she talks about death and stuff

badly.

easily!

wanted to take ofur the mewniverse. now shes happy in her witch hut sipping tea

not much! shes fine with getting down in the literal dirt

doing something shes interested in by herself

having to do something she doesnt wanna do with ofur people

defensive,,,, but shell be back later to apawlogize and do better

new method! unless its something shes done befur and she was sure she was good at,,,

very talkative. she doesnt talk fast when shes older, just a lot. sharing efurrything she knows and trying to rope them into playing/doing activities with her

when she was younger, bullying purrobably. older patty just gets them to go away,,,, or ignores them, on a good day

neifur

remove it!

lots and lots and lots of times. shes fine tho :]]

wander told her service workers are impurrtant people to be respected. patty doesnt care about hierarchies. patty treats efurryone the same. but,,, they give her no reason to be rude,,,,, most of the time,,,, hey! he asked fur no pickles!

she deserves it and she will earn it.

lots

not really

very easy! its also easy fur her to say she hates someone. less black-and-white when she gets older

ghosts.

[malewifepalamedes]

⭐Get to Know People Game⭐

its 2023 i didnt even know tag games still existed quite frankly but i am always overjoyed to be noticed by cool mutuals like @every-captain who tagged me also im so so jealous of the folie commission in ur icon i am soooo keen to get a commission from them waaa

Current time: 10:40pm yipee

anything you've been doing lately: prepping hardcore for artfight lol. i was hoping that earlybird signups would open sooner so i could target hunt better buuuut it is fine im saving a load of characters for when the website inevitably crashes. so far ive done everything including animate my icon so i think im all prepared (i always think that until the fight actually starts lmfaooo)

anything you intend to do later: today is my last day off work before artfight so im using it to relax and i intend to play overwatch until my brain leaks out my ears

anything you recently watched or played: mostly been playing overwatch lately but my friend got me into dead by daylight. soloqueueing is so sort of a nightmare so i dont play it unless my friend is free but its super cool. and ive been watching the 1998 trigun anime bc i have an addiction

anything you want to watch or play: i wanna replay night in the woods sometime. and also hollow knight Silksong please team cherry please please please just give it to me GIVE IT TO ME

anything else youd like to say: its my partnes birthday soon yayyyyyy and im so excited for them to open their gift yipeee everyone say happy birthay tooo my babbyyyy and also Elwyn my partner does furry commissions!! @queerstalline-void is their art blog on tumblr you should definitely check out their stuff yipee

ill tag @corvidable and my artfight enemies @theriverwaves @a-smol-gay-tree and @kfcrow3 if they wanna :3

[scatterpatter]

Mnnngh art vent under the cut

I really miss when art was easy for me. It used to come so, so easy, even though I'd say my art wasn't as good as it is now. Like I'd def say I've improved, but its so much harder to get art out now than it used to be

I look back at the art I used to make and I seriously lament how easy it was. Even if it was just doodles, I could get so many out, I remember back in like 2019 i could often get at least one doodle out a day and it felt great. It was my outlet, my way I connected with others, the way I shared ideas and made stories, and now I feel that outlet has been practically severed and it really, really hurts

Artfight def hurts the worst. I was so excited for this year, so ready to reconnect with a lot of my friends and bond over silly AF attacks, and it was genuine! I didnt have any big plans this month other than just doing my job so I was so happy to do this. July last year was awful, I was in a horrifically abusive situation and that abuse reached its peak last July, I was in a bad bad place. But I've completely cut that abuser from my life and I'm in a much better space, so I really thought this July would be me turning things around

But as soon as I got a lot of attacks, I just- fucking shut down. I kept thinking on how much "make up revenges" I'd have to do and it got to the point where I'd get overwhelmed every time I picked up my tablet. What became "Hehe can't wait to make art for my friends!" Quickly spiralled into "Oh god I need to do so many revenges I cant keep up", and it just made me catatonic and I hate that. And the worst is that I know no one's exepcting me of anything, I dont have to revenge everyone, its all for fun- I know its just this expectation im putting on myself and im the only one disappointed in myself but I just cant stop how catatonic its left me and its really tough to deal with because ive only done 1 attack so far. Ive spent the entirety of July going "shit i need to work on attacks. Its ok ill do it later." And now its July 31 and ive only done one. I set a goal of doing at least ten. I thought ten wouldve been manageable, but I just cant do what I used to do and it really really hurts

And I keep being told that Im having a hard month. That works been stressful and working 40hr a week leaves me with significantly less free time than I had back in college, so of course i have less time/energy for art, but it still hurts because I dont. Feel like work has been that bad. Yeah its been bad but ive dealt with horrific stress before and ive handled it fine. I feel like if I go "its been a rough month" ill be saying that every month. And i dont want that. Im really healing and im getting in better places, I feel like still struggling this much doesnt feel "right". Hell my therapist just told me that i might be in remission or partial remission for my major depressive disorder. Like I have a professional telling me im getting better but I still struggle to do something that came so easily and it hurts really really badly.

Im gonna see what i can do for last minute attacks. Might not be great attacks, but i want to see if i can get something, anything out. It just hurts because i had so many ideas for my friends and I dont know what Ill be able to do for them and I feel horrible. I feel severed from them and from my main outlet of connecting with others.

And i know its just a sign of burnout or art block or mental illness or what the fuck ever. But I feel like ive been making too much progress in myental health to be struggling this hard. I love making art and i love artfight and sharing art with my friends but as soon as I try, I go completely catatonic and its really really hard because i used to be able to do this so easily and i want it to be easy again but I dont know what im doing wrong to still be struggling this hard

Idk bottom text

[morihaus]

@profanetools tagged me in a tag game :)

describe one wip you’re planning to work on over the summer: my tesfest output has simultaneously been under my expectations and yet pretty much where i figured they'd be. i filled out what i'd like 2 do for each prompt and was quite happy with my ideas but i still have some i really really need to get a jump on... and even if its not done in time for tesfest i can always come back for em. anyway the next targets are "forgotten" about a certain emperor of tamriel's severed head and "teeth" which i had a really great sentence written about hunger and mundus but have not yet figured out how to expand it

recommend a book: the only thing ive been reading is moby dick. if you want to hear about the hidden gem ive been digging into over the summer im sorry to disappoint you. i've been reading about whales. i would not recommend it to the average person i'm doing this as part of a wider character research thing. would love to know more about the characters in the book and less about the length of a whale's skeleton if i'm being quite honest

recommend a fic: in the process of drawing @everybodyknows-everybodydies 's character kharish for artfight i dug into some writing on her and really really enjoyed this one abt mirabelle and fellow wizards... but if you dont want to read about restoration rearranging people's organs i highly recommend any fic involving kharish and colette on her blog. the greatest will-they won't-they in the history of tamriel

recommend music: firstly ive been getting a kick out of this site that lets you listen to radios of different countries in different time periods. been very handy during artfight. but as for specific songs that've been in my head lately:

The Theme from Big Wave by Tatsuro Yamashita

Stayed Away Too Long by The Littlest Man Band

Best Clockmaker on Mars by Sturgill Simpson

share a piece of advice: genuinely just writing myself a sentence for what I want to do with a piece has been an interesting and fun way of getting my writing brain in gear. you probably shouldn't wait weeks to start, admittedly. but it was fun to just put something down as a prompt to myself. got the ball rolling

tagging @everybodyknows-everybodydies bc i already did so why not <3 and @ayem can receive this in 2-3 business days, do as you please

[shannadreamgoddess]

heya! its the anon who gushed about story of arceus a while back (which was apparently over a year ago??? gosh it doesnt feel like its been that long.. still here, still keeping up! ^-^) and im back for round two !!!! this time with Actual Coherent Thoughts !!!!!!

i would like to say that i am also thoroughly enjoying fire & stone!! both you and mimi have done an excellent job writing it. my favorite chapters are probably the ones focused on adelaide's 'conversation battles' (for lack of a better term lol)- reading them gives me the imagery of the whole interaction being like a quick time event, with all the information, status updates, and planning being banners that flash up on screen- something like how the persona 5 battles play out, is my closest comparison. its so fun to read along because of that! that, and the fact that i do genuinely love how adelaide thinking out her next moves is written as well. a constant rotating thought of what moves to make, those move's consequences, their benefits.. the consequences and benefits of those consequences and benefits... shes always trying to think one step ahead of the curve, the paving of the future, even if in that haze of planning she forgets about the people she cares about in the present. ohghhhhhhhh

on that same sort of topic, also loved chapter 80 of soa and the 'deception fight' the crew had + the napkin conversation. the acting to play into vinae's low expectations of them all, the genuinely smart idea of how to communicate without scrutiny, reassuring each other that they're all in this together, and they'll get through it together... outstanding. clapping and cheering. cant wait to see where it goes from there. the bonus chapter is also a nice touch, just from the irony of learning team ganusi's backgrounds- pokemon of lower economic class, who were probably indoctrinated into becoming the people they are today through blind adoration and still being impressionable children at the time. and oh god i just noticed the parallel. they're indoctrinating vizon now. the cycle fucking continuessss auuuggghhhhh also. team ganusi absolutely killed that emboar right. twisting of the truth and whatnot. 'no officer we didnt kill that guy he simply was so stupid he killed himself. you can trust us we're guild :)'

anyways. splendid job on the fics. cant wait to see how they conclude. just imagine that im on my bed kicking my legs and giggling like a highschool girl whenever i read them. im having soooo much fun ^v^

(also... as a small side note..... do you perhaps have an artfight account/are planning on participating this year? lets just say someone would be fully willing to send some attacks of SoA or F&S characters your way... wink wink nudge nudge)

UWAAAHHH IT'S SO NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN. ;; I'm really happy you're still enjoying the story <3 I hope it's brought some nice comfort and fun.

SOSOSOSO - I showed this to both Mimi and Cam. They're both super happy, too <3. In FAS Mimi and I are having a blast including those conversational battles. But even more than that I'm having the time of my life watching Mimi write Adelaide. She's such a good character and she's absolutely fun to just mess around with, you know???

Like, setting up conversational challenges then compounding them with emotional challenges -- she's this fiercely oberservant thinker girl yet a single frown from Siranae is like Kryptonite to her (pic related).

I'm genuinely happy you're enjoying those conversation sections!! Some part of me always worried that maybe Fire and Stone was too boring or too dry to anyone but me but I've been pretty lucky to have attracted a reader base who is similarly into these kinds of vibes. ; w ;

And speaking of yeah!! SOA kind of had a similar thing in chapter 80, huh?? Having to outsmart instead of overpower - thank goodness for Loshjno. You know it's funny: Cam was the one to remember and point out that Avery could read but not write so it ended up making the scene even more challenging and fun to pull off than I'd initially thought it'd be! I loved it!

(Also oh my god I'm seeing it too now that you pointed it out -- Team Ganusi is just like Vizon. Who knows, maybe the teams that inspired Ganusi were ALSO like Vizon. Arceliaze is a FUCKING MACHINE, dude!!)

(And also bonus points for picking up on that last detail with the emboar -- I'm so proud of ya'll <33 It's funny because from the outside it looks like a perfectly bog-standard PMD story but all ya'll know better by now >:3 Well done~!)

But HUWAH WE'LL DO OUR BEST TO FINISH THEM!! We're in the struggle of trying to finish long fics - you know how it is. Especially with chapters that some say are as long as novellas all by themselves. We'll get the eventually, we hope!!

And finally…hmmm…I'm not actually sure about art fight. Only because I'm worried about being unable to fire back - I'm genuinely really bad at doing art except in sudden, unpredictable bursts. I could never be a career tumblr artist like some folks art ' w '; But Cam said I could probs just mark myself as an 'easy target'? I dunno, I'll probably think about it, fwah <3

Thank you so much for this, by the way. ;; Comments like these do always reminds us we're not just writing into a void and it makes the keystrokes feel that much easier…genuinely, it helped us today. >.< <3 Much love!!!

[ynwa-chiesa]

SHAM MY BELOVED how are u today????? how is ur art are u done w school yet????

GORMLAIITHHHH!!!!! HIIII!!! Omg im good!! I took my bio test yesterday (because i managed to grasp the topic i missed quick enough) but missed the math test today! (because the topic is new and complicated; my teacher said that maybe there wont be time for me to make up for it which is WONDERFUL. BECAUSE THAT MEANS IM PASSING MATH)

My art is arting!! Designed a poster for school, wanna draw more for artfight because i have the time now! Also managed to do all of my missed assignments!!!!

In other news im doing an excursion for 5 days to italy in two weeks (on the 18th im gone) and im SO EXITED!!! IVE NEVER BEEN TO ITALY!! and im there with my friend group!!!

My summer holiday starts in august actually....!!! Its very late for germany, bavaria always has the start very late.... Some states have their school year start like two weeks after ours is finished??? Crazy!!!

HOW ARE YEW??? so happy for you that you graduated!!! Wont do any ugly job questions so just tell me what food ur craving rn!! Fav cake??? LOVE YOU!!! 🌺🌅🌻🌇

[gretehart]

AF: When Bae visits you at your Job

Artfight Revenge for @lumenations Their characters they adopted from me, Warren and Verity! !!!! OK GUYS LEMME TELL YOU A THINGTHIS??ILOVE????KJSHGKJHSD I spent 7+ hours on this piece here, running on 4-5 hours of sleep at the time, and I have NEVER done backgrounds like this beforeand i am so proud of itand so happy with how it came out likeomg i went so overboard you guys have no idea how i despise working on backgrounds cause im so bad at them (and its an endless cycle of "Im so bad at backgrounds cause i dont draw them enough" and "I dont wanna draw the background cause im bad at them") I had so much fun working on this and I just love what you did with the characters Shel its gonna make me cry KJSHGKJHSD HOPE U GUYS LIKE IT HALF AS MUCH AS I DO AA My ArtFight Page