Amazing video! This will be my third year doing artfight and I wish I had this video back in 2022. A thing I’ve found is that while it’s etiquette to revenge someone don’t feel too pressured to. Peoples battle ratio (the ratio in which someone recieves attacks and gives back defences) tend to fall around 30%-50% if you aren’t into the oc’s the attacker has up. A nice thank you comment for the attack is more than enough. Some people can get upset if they don’t get a revenge back but remember you are not obligated to make someone else art if they made some of yours !! Anyways, amazing vid 😊
This will be my 5th year and this is soooo true. Don’t burn yourself out with revenging!! That’s a recipe for failure because you’ll always be drawing what you feel obligated to versus what you want to draw. Obviously it’s good manners to revenge if you can but I’ve gotten so lost in the sauce revenging that it wasn’t even fun anymore and I stopped attacking so I’ve pulled way back in recent years.
this is also because - for me, at least - when browsing other profiles people can see you in the defenses section and they may check out what your characters look like to see if they wanna attack you! ive gone done long trains of profiles this way lmao. a lot of my attacks are connected to one another bc someone i attacked had attacked someone else that i was drawing for, which is how i found them! if it doesnt work out tho theres always the official low defense form
i dont have much of an online presence and on my first artfight i got 7 attacks, i think it just depends if people find your characters somehow, hell i don't even link my socials
Hello! My biggest tip is honestly pushing them and promoting them on the artfight discord! My first and second year I got 30 attacks total just from pushing them in the characters chat ^^
Hi! I've been participating in Artfight for about 5 years now! Here's some tips I can offer from a lot of the topics throughout this video: - Even though the "How It Works" page says teams are assigned randomly, you CAN choose your team manually! If you ever change your mind mid-event, you can switch to the other team ONCE PER EVENT, or opt out of the event as a spectator! - "Polished" generally refers to an attack you spent a lot of time and/or effort on refining and making look good (i.e., cleaning up sketch, lineart or coloring)! - Sometimes you'll find an account with a lot of art/characters, but no links. Some artists just don't link their socials in the "Other Links" box; if you ever want to find them on other social media or know where to tag them (if you plan on posting art you drew for them), it's generally accepted to just private message them and ask! If they're active during the event and see your message, they'll most likely respond! Don't be shy! - If you're ever confused about someone's art/style, if they haven't posted any of their own attacks but have characters up: I recommend looking at the art credit that's included below every reference image on a character's page! Proper art credit is required when uploading character art on Artfight, and can tell you which reference images were/weren't drawn by the uploader. - There are some users who aren't artists, but upload and participate in Artfight anyways. This is usually just for the fun of getting art of their characters if they don't have the skills to draw them! If you're mostly in Artfight for the fun of drawing for others and don't care much about revenges (being attacked back), consider these users easy points! You might be making someone's day while you're at it! - You can usually tell who is/isn't participating in Artfight by looking at the color of their username after the site opens team registration! If someone IS participating, their username will be colored similarly to either team of the ongoing event! If someone ISN'T participating, their name will stay gray to indicate that they're spectating. Always keep an eye out for the colors of peoples' usernames if you want to attack them! - Don't plan too early before the event! Some characters you bookmarked earlier in the year/the year before might be hidden or deleted by the time the next event rolls around. I recommend searching for characters a month or two before the event! Or, if you've already done your early-bird browsing, refraining from planning anything until the character's owner has chosen a team or until the event has started! Above all, though, HAVE FUN!! 🎨💝
Honestly I like the fact that you gotta give us that slap in the face w reality about the chances of actually getting art- esp as a first year and an avg artist. Even though AF is about getting art of your own chars- its also about improving yourself and you can't genuinely expect that much. As long as ur having fun though, as much as it would be nice to get art on your own, I think AF teaches a lesson in its own way and that's what is enjoyable about it, great video!
Honestly I feel the biggest way to avoid this is going on the official discord and promoting/pushing your ocs. This is my 3rd year and my first 2 years I got 30 attacks in total from just pushing my ocs!
I think one of my favorite parts of ArtFight last year was definitely being some random people’s first attacks. (I have a habit of going on a random attack spree). The thank yous I got back saying how happy they were to get their first attack really shaped my entire ArtFight experience. (ALSO TEAM SEAFOAM 🗣️🗣️🗣️)
This is my fourth art fight !! I just started working on redrawing my refs from last year. My advice is to try and get defenses, rather than wait for an attack (since most people won't attack you out of nowhere). I also love clicking "random profile" or "random character" in order to find people to attack. ALSO I HATE THE ART FIGHT SITE I NEED IT TO BE MORE USER FRIENDLY PLEASE
This upcoming year is my 6th year. With how many attacks I’ve done Ive never encountered a “scammer” for you to have encountered enough to be a worrie you must be quite unlucky. People have already mentioned, but you don’t have to revenge. It’s nice but 99.99% of people will not be upset by you not. Remember peeps it’s for fun. it doesn’t matter if you do 1 or 100 attacks and how “good” or “quality” they are. My tip for the polish is if the artwork took longer even though it’s the same or less in terms of the other categories just add it. It dosnt give that much over all it’s a good sprinkle. (Like if the character is detailed and you put in that def add it on.) Anyways, have fun yall, my user is same as here, I’m ready to fight!
First artfight this year scared shitless and only have one oc up cuz i have no clue who else to put there thanks for the stuff funi youtube person!!!! Goodluck everyone :3
The rumors about artfight plus the "oh, you need such a complicated ref sheet plus lore!!" and just the "oh artfight is REALLY complicated" was what scared me into joining. I had made an account in 2019 with the intent of joining that year but with the rumors plus personal problems I had at the time, I ended up not joining and my account had became 5 years old with no stats or art attached to it. This year, I have decided to join and have been working on my bio plus adding ocs and boundaries for art I draw plus my ocs. The website overall had became a very scary website to me from rumors and the high expectations people made it out to be to where I was going to back out this year numerous times. Thank you for making this!! It has lifted my spirits a little about facing my fears to join this year!! :D
@@ootttteerr I mean, it really does not matter. Not everyone has to like everything because someone else made it. You are not going to tell me that you never saw something in a store or online and thought it was ugly as fuck. Because I know you have and since you want to say it's rude, You are rude.
this is my first year, so tysm for the advice! i haven't drawn alot recently and this sounds like a nice opportunity to get back into just doing art for fun
Heyo! some tips about REVENGES: aka getting art back We as humans are greedy little creatures so it's not too surprising that people want to be rewarded for their effort and expect to get art back. It definitely shouldn't be the main reason you do artfight, but if you've been wondering about revenges, here's some stuff about them 1) You don't HAVE to revenge (= give art in return) to every attack you get. A positive comment in response is customary, but that's it. There isn't an obligation to make art in return, so you also shouldn't expect that every person you attack will do so 2) Look for people with "Always revenge" on their profiles/AF cards. That means the person wants to focus on returning attacks! A good idea in general is to scout the internet for potential "targets" for your artfight. #artfight on any social media, or the # of a specific team (some people prefer to attack the opposite team bc of getting more points, but as the vid says that isn't necessary either). Joining the artfight Discord is also a good idea - there's often a lot of people who haven't gotten much attention yet and would gladly exchange attacks :] And you can ask if someone has a specific kind of character you're looking to draw too! 3) This one's for the nerds or if you're very serious: you can check the statistics on someone's profile - if they have over 50% "battle ratio" (this means how much art they gave comparing to how much they got), that means they're likely to attack you back! Mind this isn't a fool-proof method (someone can be new or more active one year than another), but generally speaking the existence of the statistic tab is never talked about so I thought I'd mention sdfsfsdd But, most importantly, TRY to do artfight for yourself. It's supposed to be fun way to practice and spread positivity, not just a "a way to get free art" . Have fun! experiment! don't take it too seriously
Honestly- just seeing people's excited or happy comments is great for me. Would I like more attacks? I will admit, yes, BUT I am STILL having a HUGE blast just giving art to people and seeing their excited comments. This is my first year and it's been very fun so far!! :D I hope everyone is having a great art fight this year!! :)
Just gonna compliment that animation in the background! A friend directed me here 'cause I'm pretty newbie in 2D art and got interested in artfight recently. Tysm for this :))
For first-timers: SIGN YOUR ART!! Ai is a huge problem now wnd artfight is a very easy way to get your art stolen if you don't put your name on it. This doesn't 100% protect your art but its way better than nothing. You deserve credit for your labors ✨
videos like these started popping up on my page so I decided to watch them and it inspired me to also join art fight! It sounds like a fun and friendly event for artists to draw. i never been in a art fight but this year/2024 im going to join the art fight!! cant wait until july😆
As a 7th yr this year, AF is all abt giving so you rlly get out of it what you put in!! I made my best online friends from AF and that's rlly what it's abt at heart ❤ It doesn't actually matter at all if you're popular... Just attack and the more you give the more likely you are to get stuff! Also being active in the disc and making friends n stuff can help but yeah erm?? Getting attacks is not an uncommon thing help normally first years do get a lot of attacks and get overwhelmed LUL
Great vid! This'll be my second year and tbh, I got three attacks on my last one (I had four characters, two of which got drawn lol). I attacked no one and got attacked so don't feel pressured to make the first move :)
Ahhh tysm!! I’ve been seeing explanations on TikTok’s but I was confused about the defense and attack still, you cleared things up for me so thank you! I’ll make sure to keep away from those scammers and heed your words 😼
I was really confused about the polished work, I just thought it meant anything that wasn't a sketch or something that was fully finished. Glade I learned that because Ive accidentally been abusing it.
Thanks to reading the comments here and by watching this video; I've gained a bit more confidence and I'm looking forward to art fight. This will be my first year and it feels like a very welcoming space. I'm less worried about not getting any attacks as I've found some OCs I'm very excited to draw. I love the feeling of doing something nice for someone without wanting anything in return. Just making someone happy makes me happy. So even if I don't get my OCs drawn, I'm still happy I made someone's day by drawing their OC.
Hello!! As a 3rd year artists I’d suggest joking the discord to push your ocs! The people are super nice and constantly ask during the fight for ocs to draw!
I just registered for artfight after thinking it seemed cool, but am now lowkey freaking out, because I don't know what I have to do to get ready or anything, lol. So this video is gonna be really helpful :)./g
This is my second year of art fight and trust, the thing I value most is the comment left on those I attack. Even if they never make a revenge art if they leave a comment ill be so so so happy!
Thank you for making this video, you explained this so well- this is my first year to do artfight and I was FREAKING OUT until you calmed me down lmao. I hope that in the event I do get attacked, the fact of my account being recently made doesn't drive anyone away lol
It's my first art fight today and I'm so stressed and pressured idk why hah😅 Yesterday on a discord server a person said something ant art fight and Is as like "huh? What is that? " they sent me a link and today I got a account, I'm also excited tbh bc it's something new for me, tysm for the lil guide! Def helped me!
4:24 agree! My first artfight was last year and i really wanted my stats to be good for fun 😂 and i was literally praying someone wouldn't attack me or if they do im praying they have ocs that r easy to draw for me 🥲honestly there were times i wanted to attack but couldn't cuz i just recently recovered from artblock during my first artfight so i made myself not feel pressured in doing revenges(good thing i didn't get many attacks tho and was able to do revenges while having fun)
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I've been wanting to join artfight for these past 4 years but i couldn't bring myself to cause I'm too anxious/unqualified for it 😔 But this year I'll hopefully join!!
ive been super like anxious to join but every year ive just been burnt-out, so this year being able to have ocs and im just using artfight to just practice and have fun!!
So from what im getting here is that art fight is more of a get together with other artists. in a way, when you’re attacking a person, you’re actually sharing a piece you made for them in exchange for them to attack you or to show your appreciation towards their characters and work, its sounds very fun (Might be exaggerating this too much but i used to think artfight is where people in the art community would just go to war, where they would team up and debate on which characters were better and i am very sorry for how wrong that thought was 😭) Edit: sorry for the long comment but I’d like to ask, can you only attack and defend once (per person i mean)
Thank you so much for this video. I've been pretty nervous but I'm actually thinking of joining after years of not really knowing much about it. I genuinely thought that Artfight was just drawing your/other's characters actually attacking each other- with weapons or something 😅. It definitely eased my mind about it- still a little nervous but intrigued! Many thanks ^^. Also- that animation program looks so cool- what is it?
This is my 3rd year of art fight and I can’t wait for everyone can experience for first timers. Let me give ya some advice. Art fight is for everyone to enjoy and have fun! Don’t stress so much on the ppl who don’t attack you back. Just be on yourself of what makes it fun for you to join art fight. I hope everyone be prepared for art fight next month. Good luck everyone on art fight!
Idk my first year (last year) I had 0 online presence and managed to get 31 attacks. The diffrence is i made 36 attacks lmao and revenged everyone who attacked me. (Not that you have to do this!! Just saying if you post attacks you will eventually get attacked back)
i am the eligable age for art fight and i am so obsessed! i want to do it so bad but im not sure my art is good enough? i feel like my art would be compared to a 7 yr old just learning how to draw and since im still practicing my digital art im still learning rendering but then again since im practicing digital art maybe art fight would be benefical for improvement? anyways thanks for reading
That’s okay! This is all for fun no matter what age man, you do you. I see it sort of as practice so it’s totally fine if u wanna participate to practice art as well!
@zurikamili plot is in my yt community post so you can read prolog to cut story short not to spoil prolog it adout a man deal with events after end up in coma :👁👄👁 read yourself if want to know prolog
I have a few questions as this is going to be my first year: how do you attack someone? Like when you draw there character, how do you send that drawing to them? And is defending just you drawing their character back after they attack you? Thank you to anyone who answers these questions:)
Select whether the attack will be a full picture or not Copy the character creator's name to use as the recipient username Select Add a Character Enter the new character's ID and choose its body type Click Check to see if the character has been tagged correctly I'm pretty sure that's everything! Hope this helps!
i don't understand why everyone seems to have been making a big deal of it lately. it's never been anything but simple, easy and relaxed for me and i've participated since 2017; there's really nothing intimidating or anxiety-inducing about it whatsoever (personally). ig i made a big deal out of everything/took myself super seriously when i was younger though lol
Listen, I have no social media that's alive, my three characters one was drawn 3 years ago, one I just redrew in 4 hrs because my original ref was 8 years old from when I first started drawing and the last is a lineless illustration that is literally the only image I have of the character. None of them even look similar and I have no proof I drew any of them, but I def did I swear (And yes I'm making a ref sheet for the illustration, tails are difficult and he has 9)
Hey, a question! What does the theme really have to do with artfight? Do you have to draw peoples characters to do with that theme, or is it just a way of splitting teams? And when battling, are we drawing peoples art from the other team, or people on our team? (Ik these are kinda stupid but i don’t see people covering these)
The theme is just a way of splitting people into teams ! some people incorporate the theme by decorating their account with the corresponding team :3 Choosing to draw other peoples characters with their team's theme is optional! And for battling, you can attack someone from the opposite team (called an attack) and someone from your same team (called friendly fire and it gives you less points)!
This might be a silly question but can you participate in the art fight if you dont have any original characters of your own? I like making art and I'd love to receive some art, but im not big on making ocs
You can defend by drawing the oc of the person who drew you! Someone draws your oc, and to defend you draw their oc! Its honestly pretty simple when you get used to it! (especially during art fight)
this video was great! this will be my first year doing artfight so i am a little nervous but this video clarified a lot of things for me and i really appreciate it!! do you have any tips for navigating the website? (i just signed up like an hour ago LMAO)
You can still register for the fight and participate during the fight month. I recommend going for it even if you need to prep a bit into the month of July. Even a half of a month gives you the experience and time, and it's a lot of fun! I recommend you don't wait for next year, just jump in when you can.
Amazing video! This will be my third year doing artfight and I wish I had this video back in 2022. A thing I’ve found is that while it’s etiquette to revenge someone don’t feel too pressured to. Peoples battle ratio (the ratio in which someone recieves attacks and gives back defences) tend to fall around 30%-50% if you aren’t into the oc’s the attacker has up. A nice thank you comment for the attack is more than enough. Some people can get upset if they don’t get a revenge back but remember you are not obligated to make someone else art if they made some of yours !! Anyways, amazing vid 😊
This will be my 5th year and this is soooo true. Don’t burn yourself out with revenging!! That’s a recipe for failure because you’ll always be drawing what you feel obligated to versus what you want to draw. Obviously it’s good manners to revenge if you can but I’ve gotten so lost in the sauce revenging that it wasn’t even fun anymore and I stopped attacking so I’ve pulled way back in recent years.
I always love looking at random profiles instead of random characters because that way I instantly look at ALL their characters
honestly if you just attack people, you're gonna get attack back at some point anyway 🤷
REAL
this is also because - for me, at least - when browsing other profiles people can see you in the defenses section and they may check out what your characters look like to see if they wanna attack you!
ive gone done long trains of profiles this way lmao. a lot of my attacks are connected to one another bc someone i attacked had attacked someone else that i was drawing for, which is how i found them!
if it doesnt work out tho theres always the official low defense form
Attacked some random popular artist I liked, got attacked back in 2 days, was so shocked and happy at the same time lmaooo 😂😂😂
@@EJ_XD lol noice
i dont have much of an online presence and on my first artfight i got 7 attacks, i think it just depends if people find your characters somehow, hell i don't even link my socials
Samee that happened to me on my first artfight too lol
Hello! My biggest tip is honestly pushing them and promoting them on the artfight discord! My first and second year I got 30 attacks total just from pushing them in the characters chat ^^
@deftonesFTW true, but its not something im interested in, I don't like sharing my social media
the goal of artfight is to make art of other people's characters and create a wholesome bond with other artists and appreciate characters.
Hi! I've been participating in Artfight for about 5 years now! Here's some tips I can offer from a lot of the topics throughout this video:
- Even though the "How It Works" page says teams are assigned randomly, you CAN choose your team manually! If you ever change your mind mid-event, you can switch to the other team ONCE PER EVENT, or opt out of the event as a spectator!
- "Polished" generally refers to an attack you spent a lot of time and/or effort on refining and making look good (i.e., cleaning up sketch, lineart or coloring)!
- Sometimes you'll find an account with a lot of art/characters, but no links. Some artists just don't link their socials in the "Other Links" box; if you ever want to find them on other social media or know where to tag them (if you plan on posting art you drew for them), it's generally accepted to just private message them and ask! If they're active during the event and see your message, they'll most likely respond! Don't be shy!
- If you're ever confused about someone's art/style, if they haven't posted any of their own attacks but have characters up: I recommend looking at the art credit that's included below every reference image on a character's page! Proper art credit is required when uploading character art on Artfight, and can tell you which reference images were/weren't drawn by the uploader.
- There are some users who aren't artists, but upload and participate in Artfight anyways. This is usually just for the fun of getting art of their characters if they don't have the skills to draw them! If you're mostly in Artfight for the fun of drawing for others and don't care much about revenges (being attacked back), consider these users easy points! You might be making someone's day while you're at it!
- You can usually tell who is/isn't participating in Artfight by looking at the color of their username after the site opens team registration! If someone IS participating, their username will be colored similarly to either team of the ongoing event! If someone ISN'T participating, their name will stay gray to indicate that they're spectating. Always keep an eye out for the colors of peoples' usernames if you want to attack them!
- Don't plan too early before the event! Some characters you bookmarked earlier in the year/the year before might be hidden or deleted by the time the next event rolls around. I recommend searching for characters a month or two before the event! Or, if you've already done your early-bird browsing, refraining from planning anything until the character's owner has chosen a team or until the event has started!
Above all, though, HAVE FUN!! 🎨💝
i fall perfectly into a scammer looking profile… help… 😭
Me too it’s not good 😭
Man same 😭
Same 😭😭
same💀 I just don't feel like my art is developed enough to post on popular platforms so I don't link any 😭
Honestly I like the fact that you gotta give us that slap in the face w reality about the chances of actually getting art- esp as a first year and an avg artist. Even though AF is about getting art of your own chars- its also about improving yourself and you can't genuinely expect that much. As long as ur having fun though, as much as it would be nice to get art on your own, I think AF teaches a lesson in its own way and that's what is enjoyable about it, great video!
This! My first year I only got art pieces, and those were from me approaching a user I knew, and a lucky draw lol
Honestly I feel the biggest way to avoid this is going on the official discord and promoting/pushing your ocs. This is my 3rd year and my first 2 years I got 30 attacks in total from just pushing my ocs!
I think one of my favorite parts of ArtFight last year was definitely being some random people’s first attacks. (I have a habit of going on a random attack spree). The thank yous I got back saying how happy they were to get their first attack really shaped my entire ArtFight experience.
(ALSO TEAM SEAFOAM 🗣️🗣️🗣️)
This is my fourth art fight !! I just started working on redrawing my refs from last year.
My advice is to try and get defenses, rather than wait for an attack (since most people won't attack you out of nowhere). I also love clicking "random profile" or "random character" in order to find people to attack.
ALSO I HATE THE ART FIGHT SITE I NEED IT TO BE MORE USER FRIENDLY PLEASE
ur not required to attack back
This upcoming year is my 6th year. With how many attacks I’ve done Ive never encountered a “scammer” for you to have encountered enough to be a worrie you must be quite unlucky.
People have already mentioned, but you don’t have to revenge. It’s nice but 99.99% of people will not be upset by you not.
Remember peeps it’s for fun. it doesn’t matter if you do 1 or 100 attacks and how “good” or “quality” they are.
My tip for the polish is if the artwork took longer even though it’s the same or less in terms of the other categories just add it. It dosnt give that much over all it’s a good sprinkle. (Like if the character is detailed and you put in that def add it on.)
Anyways, have fun yall, my user is same as here, I’m ready to fight!
I literally signed up today with no knowledge about anything so this is a lifesaver-
Hello! To try and avoid getting little art, my biggest tip would be joining their discord and pushing your ocs ^^
First artfight this year scared shitless and only have one oc up cuz i have no clue who else to put there thanks for the stuff funi youtube person!!!! Goodluck everyone :3
IT’S MY FIRST YEAR TOO! I’ve watched so many videos trying not to freak out and i really hope I don’t do anything wrong, i’m so excited!
Same here! Im kind of nervous too lol
Boosting! a lot of my friends genuinely dk how af works so they don’t join 😢☠️
TYYY❤❤😊
honestly js learned abt this rn 😭
but the guide is so helpful and the animation is GORGEOUSSS
THANK YOUUU ❤❤
The rumors about artfight plus the "oh, you need such a complicated ref sheet plus lore!!" and just the "oh artfight is REALLY complicated" was what scared me into joining. I had made an account in 2019 with the intent of joining that year but with the rumors plus personal problems I had at the time, I ended up not joining and my account had became 5 years old with no stats or art attached to it. This year, I have decided to join and have been working on my bio plus adding ocs and boundaries for art I draw plus my ocs. The website overall had became a very scary website to me from rumors and the high expectations people made it out to be to where I was going to back out this year numerous times. Thank you for making this!! It has lifted my spirits a little about facing my fears to join this year!! :D
"If the character is ugly as fuck" got me 😭
LMAO
its just rude as hell
@@ootttteerr How
@@WhispersofAkuma what makes a character ugly as fuck? is it the artstyle? or is the design not cohesive?
@@ootttteerr I mean, it really does not matter. Not everyone has to like everything because someone else made it. You are not going to tell me that you never saw something in a store or online and thought it was ugly as fuck. Because I know you have and since you want to say it's rude, You are rude.
this is my first year, so tysm for the advice! i haven't drawn alot recently and this sounds like a nice opportunity to get back into just doing art for fun
ILY FOR THIS ITS MY FIRST ART FIGHT
It’s my first year and I’ve alr got THREE attacks and omg they make my day :D
Heyo! some tips about REVENGES: aka getting art back
We as humans are greedy little creatures so it's not too surprising that people want to be rewarded for their effort and expect to get art back. It definitely shouldn't be the main reason you do artfight, but if you've been wondering about revenges, here's some stuff about them
1) You don't HAVE to revenge (= give art in return) to every attack you get. A positive comment in response is customary, but that's it. There isn't an obligation to make art in return, so you also shouldn't expect that every person you attack will do so
2) Look for people with "Always revenge" on their profiles/AF cards. That means the person wants to focus on returning attacks! A good idea in general is to scout the internet for potential "targets" for your artfight. #artfight on any social media, or the # of a specific team (some people prefer to attack the opposite team bc of getting more points, but as the vid says that isn't necessary either). Joining the artfight Discord is also a good idea - there's often a lot of people who haven't gotten much attention yet and would gladly exchange attacks :] And you can ask if someone has a specific kind of character you're looking to draw too!
3) This one's for the nerds or if you're very serious: you can check the statistics on someone's profile - if they have over 50% "battle ratio" (this means how much art they gave comparing to how much they got), that means they're likely to attack you back! Mind this isn't a fool-proof method (someone can be new or more active one year than another), but generally speaking the existence of the statistic tab is never talked about so I thought I'd mention sdfsfsdd
But, most importantly, TRY to do artfight for yourself. It's supposed to be fun way to practice and spread positivity, not just a "a way to get free art" . Have fun! experiment! don't take it too seriously
Honestly- just seeing people's excited or happy comments is great for me. Would I like more attacks? I will admit, yes, BUT I am STILL having a HUGE blast just giving art to people and seeing their excited comments. This is my first year and it's been very fun so far!! :D I hope everyone is having a great art fight this year!! :)
Just gonna compliment that animation in the background! A friend directed me here 'cause I'm pretty newbie in 2D art and got interested in artfight recently. Tysm for this :))
ARTFIGHTT 2024 ❤❤
If y’all want to attack me I WILL (try to) attack back!
artfight: zurikamili
YALL R SO AWESOMESAUCE I LOVE ARTISTS
This Is my first year but I will try to attack you>:]
For first-timers: SIGN YOUR ART!! Ai is a huge problem now wnd artfight is a very easy way to get your art stolen if you don't put your name on it. This doesn't 100% protect your art but its way better than nothing. You deserve credit for your labors ✨
aah! i've been spectating art fight for years, it seems so fun but i just can not get the hang of drawing 😭
videos like these started popping up on my page so I decided to watch them and it inspired me to also join art fight! It sounds like a fun and friendly event for artists to draw. i never been in a art fight but this year/2024 im going to join the art fight!! cant wait until july😆
this will be my first proper year doing artfight (i've always chickened out) and this guide really eased my mind, thank you so much :sob:
When I was looking though characters yesterday I saw someone was making sculptures out of clay for their OC’s which was cool af
As a 7th yr this year, AF is all abt giving so you rlly get out of it what you put in!! I made my best online friends from AF and that's rlly what it's abt at heart ❤
It doesn't actually matter at all if you're popular... Just attack and the more you give the more likely you are to get stuff! Also being active in the disc and making friends n stuff can help but yeah erm?? Getting attacks is not an uncommon thing help normally first years do get a lot of attacks and get overwhelmed LUL
I've never participated in artfight before but I have partook in a similar event befoe and I am very proud of the 4 pieces I made during that.
Great vid! This'll be my second year and tbh, I got three attacks on my last one (I had four characters, two of which got drawn lol). I attacked no one and got attacked so don't feel pressured to make the first move :)
Ahhh tysm!! I’ve been seeing explanations on TikTok’s but I was confused about the defense and attack still, you cleared things up for me so thank you! I’ll make sure to keep away from those scammers and heed your words 😼
I was really confused about the polished work, I just thought it meant anything that wasn't a sketch or something that was fully finished. Glade I learned that because Ive accidentally been abusing it.
Thanks to reading the comments here and by watching this video; I've gained a bit more confidence and I'm looking forward to art fight. This will be my first year and it feels like a very welcoming space. I'm less worried about not getting any attacks as I've found some OCs I'm very excited to draw. I love the feeling of doing something nice for someone without wanting anything in return. Just making someone happy makes me happy. So even if I don't get my OCs drawn, I'm still happy I made someone's day by drawing their OC.
Hello!! As a 3rd year artists I’d suggest joking the discord to push your ocs! The people are super nice and constantly ask during the fight for ocs to draw!
this is very straightforward and comprehensive, thank you so much I was really nervous. this year is my 1st art fight
I was considering joining this year and this video makes it sound much less intimidating. Thank you!
This is going to be my first art fight ever lol thank you so much! This helped me a lot :)
saved video, probably going to start doing art fight bcs why not! thank you!
I just registered for artfight after thinking it seemed cool, but am now lowkey freaking out, because I don't know what I have to do to get ready or anything, lol. So this video is gonna be really helpful :)./g
This is my second year of art fight and trust, the thing I value most is the comment left on those I attack. Even if they never make a revenge art if they leave a comment ill be so so so happy!
Thank you for making this video, you explained this so well- this is my first year to do artfight and I was FREAKING OUT until you calmed me down lmao. I hope that in the event I do get attacked, the fact of my account being recently made doesn't drive anyone away lol
It's my first art fight today and I'm so stressed and pressured idk why hah😅 Yesterday on a discord server a person said something ant art fight and Is as like "huh? What is that? " they sent me a link and today I got a account, I'm also excited tbh bc it's something new for me, tysm for the lil guide! Def helped me!
this is my first year participating so tysm for this vid !!
Oh my god ur artsyle is gorgeous!
4:24 agree! My first artfight was last year and i really wanted my stats to be good for fun 😂 and i was literally praying someone wouldn't attack me or if they do im praying they have ocs that r easy to draw for me 🥲honestly there were times i wanted to attack but couldn't cuz i just recently recovered from artblock during my first artfight so i made myself not feel pressured in doing revenges(good thing i didn't get many attacks tho and was able to do revenges while having fun)
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I've been wanting to join artfight for these past 4 years but i couldn't bring myself to cause I'm too anxious/unqualified for it 😔
But this year I'll hopefully join!!
Last year I got one attack and it was so nice! I draw slow so I never did as much as I thought
Me watching this knowing 2024 will be my fifth artfight
Oh this seems so fun! I think Im going to join :3
Could you make a video about reference sheets? Also thanks for reminding😊 I was gonna do it last year and almost forgot😅
i decided to join this year.. im excited
ive been super like anxious to join but every year ive just been burnt-out, so this year being able to have ocs and im just using artfight to just practice and have fun!!
GREAT VIDEOO!! YES TO MORE ART FIGHT ENJOYERSS >:))
YESSS❤❤
Gonna try n do art fight this yr :) very nervous LMAO I get SO EMBARRASSED of my art bahahha
I'm doing art fight for the 1st time this year.. I'll most likely 'attack' some friends, but I doubt anyone will attack me
This is a really good video! If I had seen this before my first artfight, I would've felt so much more confident getting into it ^^
I’m glad this helped 😋😋🙏🏽 good luck!
So from what im getting here is that art fight is more of a get together with other artists. in a way, when you’re attacking a person, you’re actually sharing a piece you made for them in exchange for them to attack you or to show your appreciation towards their characters and work, its sounds very fun
(Might be exaggerating this too much but i used to think artfight is where people in the art community would just go to war, where they would team up and debate on which characters were better and i am very sorry for how wrong that thought was 😭)
Edit: sorry for the long comment but I’d like to ask, can you only attack and defend once (per person i mean)
nope you can attack whoever you want as many times as you want
Thank you so much for this video. I've been pretty nervous but I'm actually thinking of joining after years of not really knowing much about it. I genuinely thought that Artfight was just drawing your/other's characters actually attacking each other- with weapons or something 😅. It definitely eased my mind about it- still a little nervous but intrigued! Many thanks ^^. Also- that animation program looks so cool- what is it?
I'll probably join next year.
ive been registered on artfight for like 3 years now but i keep forgetting to actually participate 😭
thisll be the year, i swear!!
Last year was my first art fight and I managed to make an online art friend/moot out of our shared love of zombie girls. ❤
That’s so sweet 🥲
Lmao what u said at the end about red flags that's fr me rn 💀💀 I'm not stealing art but haven't posted anything yet or done my profile up nice
This is my 3rd year of art fight and I can’t wait for everyone can experience for first timers.
Let me give ya some advice. Art fight is for everyone to enjoy and have fun! Don’t stress so much on the ppl who don’t attack you back. Just be on yourself of what makes it fun for you to join art fight. I hope everyone be prepared for art fight next month. Good luck everyone on art fight!
I've considered joining but I just don't draw enough to not feel guilty about people drawing my characters lol
Eye opening because I don’t have socials linked , not a lot of art posted and an inconsistent artstyle 😨
You are a SAVIOR🙏🙏
Oh my god I THOUGHT I MISSED IT ALREADY! ITS IN FUCKING JULY??? NUTS
This has convinced me to join
W video 🎉
THANK YOU!!
Idk my first year (last year) I had 0 online presence and managed to get 31 attacks. The diffrence is i made 36 attacks lmao and revenged everyone who attacked me. (Not that you have to do this!! Just saying if you post attacks you will eventually get attacked back)
thank you for saying what polish means, I'd choose it every time because I'm Polish and stupid😭
i am the eligable age for art fight and i am so obsessed! i want to do it so bad but im not sure my art is good enough? i feel like my art would be compared to a 7 yr old just learning how to draw and since im still practicing my digital art im still learning rendering but then again since im practicing digital art maybe art fight would be benefical for improvement? anyways thanks for reading
That’s okay! This is all for fun no matter what age man, you do you. I see it sort of as practice so it’s totally fine if u wanna participate to practice art as well!
In my first year I got attacked like almost 10 times and I wasn't able to revenge at all
I wish art fight had an app so it could be easier to use on the phone because I don’t have a computer
Find it funny when you said "ohhh your not gonna get attacks or anything" meanwhile in like 3 days i got like 22 ppl following me lmao
Great video by way
TYSM ❤❤❤
@zurikamili my yt broke so I have put link in community post of mine so far prolog is done
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@@OnionSketcher good luck with that! I’m writing my story too lol
@zurikamili plot is in my yt community post so you can read prolog to cut story short not to spoil prolog it adout a man deal with events after end up in coma :👁👄👁 read yourself if want to know prolog
THTNK YOU I WAS SO LOST 😭😭😭
I have a few questions as this is going to be my first year: how do you attack someone? Like when you draw there character, how do you send that drawing to them?
And is defending just you drawing their character back after they attack you?
Thank you to anyone who answers these questions:)
Select whether the attack will be a full picture or not
Copy the character creator's name to use as the recipient username
Select Add a Character
Enter the new character's ID and choose its body type
Click Check to see if the character has been tagged correctly
I'm pretty sure that's everything! Hope this helps!
@@zurikamili thank you!
i don't understand why everyone seems to have been making a big deal of it lately. it's never been anything but simple, easy and relaxed for me and i've participated since 2017; there's really nothing intimidating or anxiety-inducing about it whatsoever (personally). ig i made a big deal out of everything/took myself super seriously when i was younger though lol
Listen, I have no social media that's alive, my three characters one was drawn 3 years ago, one I just redrew in 4 hrs because my original ref was 8 years old from when I first started drawing and the last is a lineless illustration that is literally the only image I have of the character. None of them even look similar and I have no proof I drew any of them, but I def did I swear
(And yes I'm making a ref sheet for the illustration, tails are difficult and he has 9)
I usually draw full body dynamic poses with detailed backgrounds. Would that be considered okay to click Polish?
I dunno tbh?? Polish rating is the only thing idk abt tbh.
Polish is relative to you! So if you feel you’ve put extra time or effort into a piece relative to whatever is usual for you, then it deserves polish.
2:59 LITERALLY
Im doing artfight for the first time this year, i hope i get attacks since i got like youtube,da,and tiktok as socials :,) if yt counts
What if you join 4 days late ? 😅
im also gonna join the event 4-5 days late but i heard you can still join the event even AFTER it starts :3
ive never seen a speedpaint in after effects before lol
Hey, a question! What does the theme really have to do with artfight? Do you have to draw peoples characters to do with that theme, or is it just a way of splitting teams? And when battling, are we drawing peoples art from the other team, or people on our team? (Ik these are kinda stupid but i don’t see people covering these)
The theme is just a way of splitting people into teams ! some people incorporate the theme by decorating their account with the corresponding team :3
Choosing to draw other peoples characters with their team's theme is optional!
And for battling, you can attack someone from the opposite team (called an attack) and someone from your same team (called friendly fire and it gives you less points)!
@@ootttteerr okay! Ty!
@@thatsimple_simp have a fun art fight n good luck !!
This might be a silly question but can you participate in the art fight if you dont have any original characters of your own? I like making art and I'd love to receive some art, but im not big on making ocs
YEP of course!!
It’s my first year on artfight and I’ve gotten 15 attacks this video did not prepare me for this what is going on I need to do so much defence art
Wait, how do you defend? Is it drawing your oc or theirs?
Sorry-- Getting myself confused over the silly art trade battle
You can defend by drawing the oc of the person who drew you!
Someone draws your oc, and to defend you draw their oc! Its honestly pretty simple when you get used to it! (especially during art fight)
@@fanboyeint
Ohh, makes sense, thank you!
no cause I never knew art fight even existed until this week and I feel like a fake artist now 💀
this video was great! this will be my first year doing artfight so i am a little nervous but this video clarified a lot of things for me and i really appreciate it!! do you have any tips for navigating the website? (i just signed up like an hour ago LMAO)
I don't have that constant of a style, I have little art, I just opened my account, and I have no links. but I am not stealing.
Hey I was wondering are we allowed fan characters?
Like characters that are made for a specific media ex: sonic the Hedgehog ocs?
Fandom characters are allowed! Canon characters are not. You can have characters from specific media as long as they are your own original OC ^^
@@azurekuzma3598 YAYYYY
THANK YOU 😭😭
THANKYOISOMUCHOMG
I only have a week to figure this out, is it too late for me?
You can still register for the fight and participate during the fight month. I recommend going for it even if you need to prep a bit into the month of July. Even a half of a month gives you the experience and time, and it's a lot of fun! I recommend you don't wait for next year, just jump in when you can.
Wait can u still sign up once art fight has begun…
Does anybody know what software they're using to animate on the video??? 2:36
After effects 2020