Art Fight Round-Up

Despite Gravity's best attempts to stop me, I managed to eke a little bit of Art Fight participation out of 2023. Time to show y'all all the attacks and defenses I managed to fit into the last week of July (with one exception). This site is my fridge door and I am a proud parent armed with magnets.

The theme for the year was Vampires vs. Werewolves - a fun choice but not really one that I have much care about either way. I ended up leaving my team to random assignment, and so I represented Team Werewolves, which was nicely convenient for the folks on Team Vampires who wanted to attack me anyway. Speaking of, the first attack I received was from a very good friend who runs our Lancer campaign:

This attack came right at the beginning of the fight, and meant a hell of a lot to me actually. I was feeling really cut up about not being able to join in with the fight after spending June preparing, and still trying to figure out how to manage with both hands in casts, so the fact that Hog decided to include me anyway (and as his first attack no less) was really appreciated. Also, he got Sylvie's angry-sad wet cat vibes absolutely on point lmao.
Of course, I had to get my revenge in against him once I got my right arm freed:

Hessian wasn't actually the first attack I drew for the year though, as I had a couple of unofficial revenges I wanted to get in for attacks I received last year. Inkie's portrait [left] was pretty much the first thing I drew after getting my cast off beyond a few tester scribbles. I haven't yet done any fully 'clean' pieces with my usual fine linework, but I'm pleased with the texture I got out of using my sketching brush across the entirity of these pieces:

Both Squiddie and Chips then revenged me back, of course - so I am once again in attack debt! But I've got my eye on some of their characters for next year, so that's fine.
Squiddie drew Morrissey for me - my sea elf cleric with an emotional range consisting of angry, sad, and tired. I absolutely love the funky, geometric style of their work and the chunkiness of their lineart so a piece from Squiddie is always an absolute treat for me.

Chips did a super cute pixel portait of my 'sona - the pumpkin-headed faerie found on a few different pages of this site. One of my favourite parts of art fight is seeing characters drawn in styles and mediums really different to my own, and I love this piece so much!

Continuing the neopets theme, I was attacked by Connor from the neo discord, who drew my aisha Pixie. Connor produced an astonishing 81 attacks this year, mostly against neopets characters - his piece for me is really cute, and I'm excited to see where how his art improves over the next year! In response, I revenged with my own aisha drawing of his character Meadow.

Before the fight began (and before I broke both my arms), I filled in a few hitlists for folks in the Art Fight discord - including for RabbitJaguar's OC Calendar project. Of the three characters I submitted, two were included in the final piece, and it's so cool to be included in such an impressive project! If you have the time I highly recommend going and checking out the full calendar - there's even options to print it and use it for 2024. I love both of these portraits - Heron [left] in particular looks so good in RabbitJaguar's style.

In revenge I drew Moonshadow - RabbitJaguar's moon-themed mime. This character's design is so good! I love all the little lunar cycle motifs across their outfit especially. Sadly I ran out of time to colour the piece before the fight ended, but I have lofty aspirations to finish it up some time soon.

The last attack I received was from LightningEyed, who will have to wait for next year to be revenged! They drew Parlay, my oath of ancients paladin, as part of a final group attack - they're the elf in the top right of the piece. I love the flowers growing up over his shoulder and in his circlet!

To wrap up, I ended with having drawn five attacks and received six. I'm really glad that I got the chance to draw for others, even if it was mainly as revenges for this and last year. Next year - assuming no more broken arms, category 5 disasters, or acts of god - I hope I can be more proactive (and prolific) with my attacks. Top of the list will be Lightning, but my bookmarks folder is yonks long as is, and will only continue to grow throughout the year. 'Til then, I have plenty of my own characters to draw as well!