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Hola, mis amigos! This July was my first ever year in Art Fight, which is an annual art competition. Now, if your unfamiliar with this, I know by the name "Art Fight" you might imagine someone dressed like the suit I'm in and battling each other with paint brushes and sharp pencils until one of us is covered in "red paint" and can't move.
...but it's actually a lot less extreme than that. (And legal.)
Basically, Art Fight divides the users into two teams with their own themes. This year the themes were Fossils and Crystals, and I was on team Fossils. Each user has to make characters that others can attack.
When I say "attack", I don't mean literally fighting, I mean you just draw the character in your style, a.k.a. an art trade. By doing so, you earn points for your team.
You can also do "revenge" attacks, where you attack someone's character after they attacked you, and "friendly-fire", where you attack someone on your own team and receive 75% of points.
Obviously, the team with the most amount of points by the end of the match wins; in specific, a digital trophy and bragging rights. As for the team that "loses"...they don't really lose. They still have the joy of being able to share and make attacks for a month for free, and see everyone's amazing art.
So, the ultimate goal of Art Fight is not even to "win". It's not that competitive. It's to share your creative skills, improve your art, and have fun in general. In a way, everyone wins. And oh boy, I sure did!
I would like to make this blog post as a review of a majority of the attacks I made and all of the attacks I received (known as defenses). Let's go!
MY ATTACKS
Warning: Some images have sensitive content relating to extreme gore, body horror, and drug abuse. Also, I use minor profanity near the end.
P.S. If I don't clarify who is who and there's two characters on screen, read it left to right. Also, any character on screen that I don't credit is a character I drew.
I highly suggest you look at the original creators art and characters!
Well then...*deep inhale*
My first few attacks were pretty basic, and I was just getting familiar with things.
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| "The Sketch made by Etch" attack on EtchisSketchy, on DeviantArt, GameJolt, and Instagram. Characters, left to right: Etchie, Poncho and Tin. |
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| "He's the Beast" attack on SunnyRadiances on BlueSky and Tumblr. Character: "Beast". |
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| "Beach Buddies" attack on CEO_Bread. Characters: Alice Moore and Jack Rigby |
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| "At the Swamp" attack on thecreative_rat on Tumblr and Instagram. Characters: Bem and Polo. |
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| "Roomates" attack on goopyhead / Hiram on Instagram. Characters: TBD & Gerald. (Yes, the red guy is actually named TBD.) |
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| "Iffy Iffy" attack on somber77 Character: ...Iffy. He's a bear, not a frog by the way. |
Now onto phase 2, with I think has the most PEAK art and the most effort applied to it. We're talking like, 3 attacks per day, constant motivation.
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"Making his Mark" attack on Doodle_Mayz Character: Chef Mark.
(Remember I drew this shrimpy thingy for later.) |
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| "Spider and Girl" attack on ShoSakazaki . Characters: Demon and Eliza. |
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"No Littering" attack on bakertoons Character: Algae.
(ft. Bystander Guy and Getrude. They came out kinda wonky.) |
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| "Silly Little Guys" attack on GalacticGarlic7 (My first- and so far only, mass attack.) Characters, left to right on top: Death & Sye, Jeremiah, Dave the Vampire. Characters, left to right on bottom: Cranium, The Wretched One, Dante, and Dawn. Biggest character drawn: Little Fella. Wow that's a mouthful. |
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"Sushi Dog" attack on charbeans. Character:...Sushi Dog.
I don't eat sushi, and I'm scared of dogs, but who couldn't resist petting such an adorable SUSHI DOG!! |
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"Pig Doctoring" attack on Doodle_Mayz Character: Doc Hog
(Ah- ah- does that creator name sound familiar?! And the Shrimp Thingy returns, slightly more polished...where is this leading to?) |
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"Drunk Doggo" attack on Maggotnizer on Twitter, Instagram, and BlueSky Character: AIDS Aidenn
It's...it's a hung over wolf. Years of practicing drawing has lead to this. Also, yes, that is in fact his name. |
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| "Vulture Boy" attack on ColdFission-Clancy on YouTube, DeviantArt, Instagram, and Tumblr Character: T-Bone. (Ironiaclly, he probably only likes rotten T-Bones). |
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"Never Skip the Credits" attack on BubbleDaLoser. Character: Credits Guy
Bystander Guy, meet Credits Guy. (He looks...more polished here.) |
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"Cannibalistic Carnivorous Coyote Chef Chomp's Cravings" attack on SH4RKB4IT Character: Chef Chomp the Coyote
(Jesus Christ, could I chose a more tongue twisting title?)
[ALSO- SHRIMP THINGY IS BACK!!! Hmm..it continues to be abused..] |
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"Mollusk Misses" attack on ScoopDaWoop. Characters: Dinara and June.
Snail sisters for life! The creator had a beautiful reaction to this by the way:
"MY BABIES OOUUGHHH MY GOD MY GASTROPOD BABIES THEY LOOK SO CUTE I LOVE IT" Glad I could give you some good ol' gastropods. |
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"Irate Pirate" attack on Doodle_Mayz. Character: Captain Nemona and an unnamed parrot.
(Oh look. It's him again! His name's Maynard, if your wondering. This was my last attack on him.)
[Also, I am unreasonably upset by the fact the title doesn't rhyme.] |
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"The Frog and The Oxe" attack on Alfou_Works. Characters: Crapouille and Marquis LeBoeuf
It's...it's the title. |
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"Bickering Bri'ish Blokes" attack on 413Comics on ComicFury and Tumblr. Character: Count Bittermore
[Julia is British-American, if you didn't know. Also, I would be grumpy at the world to if my name was Bittermore!] |
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"AL13N 1NVA510N" attack on Thamaryllyis. Characters, left to right: Snaren, Sydosian, and Krognat
They actually look pretty friendly for an invasion. |
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"Sentient Sockpuppet" attack on o_grapes on Twitter, Instagram, and BlueSky. Character: Steven and his angel and devil
It's a DHMIS-esk sock puppet with strange morality...no, you're not hallucinating. It's just a lot of creative characters from the websites. |
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"Anthroomates" attack on Floofrights on Tumblr, Instagram, BlueSky, and Neocities. Characters, left to right: Eli Deli, Woodrot, and Xella.
It's...it's a poodle, a fox, and a chihuahua. Standing up...in a room...am I the one hallucinating? |
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"V E N K A" attack on Ratbile. Character: Venka
Okayyyy, I'm definitely halluciating. I'll go take some rest rq. No but seriously, probably the most convoluted design I had to do. |
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"Extraordinary Predictionary" attack on 413Comics. Characters: Ava and Stifle.
Oh, it's him again! For lore reference, Stifle is Count Bittermore's butler. The spider thing on the left is Ava, a magical entity thing.
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And onto the last phase of Art Fight, where things calmed down. You can tell by the use of very simple or no background.
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"The Prankster Meets Her Match" attack on valeriapryanikova. Character: Lyra
Not so good when it happens to you, ain't it Julia? Khalil's smiling deviously right now and he isn't even in the drawing! Valeria referred to this as "menace on menace communication". |
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"Macabre Monday" attack on MariTheCoolBroski. Character: "Clovey"
Hey, the creator said they would LOVE if I drew gore of them. Not joking. If you're feeling gutsy (or stupid), view an uncensored version here. |
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"Mreow" attack on r9ostdkgvuusf0vd9k.Yes, that's her username. Character: SallyTheGal
The only thing to note is that the artist said "i'd imagine that she'd be a bit chubby", so...I made her chubby. Also, making this tile pattern wasn't as hard then it looked. |
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"Loosey Goosey" attack on CheesieK3no. Character: Govi.
Who would've thought geese could be so...unsettling...also, this was the first of four drawings I made on what I call "Bird Day!" The next three entries are all birds. |
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"Cou- Cou- Coughing Crow" attack on JustNitrogen. Character: Smoking Crow.
I wonder what he's smoking... |
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"Alien Accquitances" attack on Jersey Jim Nixon, on BlueSky, Instagram, DeviantArt, Twitter, and Tumblr. Character: Tweeto.
The most wholesome drawing during "Bird Day". Let's see if the Neptunian does end up playing Chekars with him. Anyway, let's go from wholesome to- |
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"DON'T DO IT" attack on BarriCuda85. Characters: Evil Bird and Snail With a Tophat.
First of all, impeccable character names. Secondly, yes, I did draw a bird teasing a snail with salt. I didn't say I was sane. And the creator thinks so to:
"GAHAHHAHAHAHAGA NOT THE LITTLE GENTLESNAIL!!!! SHE WAS JUST ENJOYING A DISTINGUISHED EVENING STROLL!!!" (she liked it btw) |
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"WE'RE ALL GOING TO FUCKING DIE & THE WORLD'S GOING TO FUCKING END" attack on GuideThyHand. Character: Dr. Cookie.
Jesus Christ, when did things get so dark? The gimmick of this character is that he knows every single world-ending decision. Terrifying. |
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| "Loud & Loveable" attack on Cornettosara, on Twitter and Instagram. Characters: Mac Carvan and Blair Starren. (Along with J & K). Blonde = out-going. It's basic cartoon character 101. |
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"IT'S MORNING TIME" attack on StarWell101 on DeviantArt, Tumblr, Instagram, and BlueSky. Characters: Tic-Toc Tina and EggCat
[One of the funniest drawings I've made this Art Fight season. Also, again, great character names- straight to the point.] |
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| "Beloved Blue" attack on Mike_Fuckerberg on Tumblr and Comic Fury. Characters: Soviya Penguin and Dalas |
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| "Nothing Fishy' Around Here..." attack on Clownpuddin on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Character: Fish. (Not an actual fish, to be knowledge...) |
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| "Apocalaypism" attack on SpiceeWings, Character: John Vegason. He's a dumb lucker. |
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| And last but not least... "Shrimpessive" attack on ToxsRadioactiveLocks. Character: Skrimps Crossvenom. It would shrimpolite to use more shrimp puns. (This will make more sense later.) Also, most polished drawing of the Shrimp Thingy so far. Hmm... |
MY DEFENSES
I actually received a lot more defenses than I expected, and you'd be surprised by what happened to. I guess first we should discuss what characters I chose.
I initially decided for this year I'd stick with the Potato Pals quartet, aka the first four characters of 97:
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Khalil Sweary, self-centered confident teen boy, and his scatterbrained ADHD best friend, Julia Creedy.
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| Falk Complementary, the weird obnoxious chalk-eating always cross-eyed student. |
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| And Sandy Dunes, a chill-Bill escapist Asian-American girl who is very soft-spoken. |
I would add a few more characters later on, with only two being significant in this context:
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| Bystander Guy, our favorite apathetic overweight middle-aged man with his dumb eyed poodle, Gertrude. |
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...and as I've continuously foreshadowed would become a real character, the SHRIMP THINGY! Who actually became my most attacked character this season.
"Every team needs a mascot ;)" - Doodle Mayz when I commented about that
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Let's get into the defenses!
(P.S. If I don't title something it's usually just the character title)
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Revenge piece for "Beach Buddies" by SunnyRadiances. We already begin off with a BANG!
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Revenge piece for "Beach Buddies" by CEO_Bread
 | "He's being weird again..." attack by Doodle_Mayz
(Hmm...that name sounds familar.) |
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"You Just Cannot Cheat at Rock, Paper, Scissors" attack by goopyhead (This is so freaking in-character)
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| Attack by ToxsRadioactiveLocks |
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"A shrimp and a blonde" by Doodle_Mayz
(HMMMM It's HIM AGAINNNN) [Also this was actually before I officially made the Shrimp Thingy a character, so...] |
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| "The Critter" by ScoopDaWoop (First attack on The Shrimp Thingy...and certainly not the last.) |
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| "The Creature" by DeviantArt, Tumblr, BlueSky, and Neocities. (The creator pointed out the character looked like it came from a Matt Groening show, specifically Futurama.) |
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"PLEASEEEEEE" attack by Doodle_Mayz.
And behold. The persisdus resuiance...or however you spell it. This was his final attack on me, and also features TWO CHARACTERS from earlier that if you were paying attention you should know and if you don't know your fake fans- *cough* Ok it's Chef Mark and Doc Hog. I just love this one. |
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| "Radioactive Thingy" by 413 Comics. (With his character, Wayward, from...a radioactive world. Fititng.) |
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| "Yellow" by BuddleDaLoser. Probably the best depiction of Julia's already hard to redraw winged style hair. |
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| "Finally on vacation" by Thamaryllis. Yeah, after running into mutant worlds, getting cooked, being used for science, and nearly being eaten alive, along with being my most drawn character...The Shrimp Thingy deserved a bit of rest. And he got it. Viola. |
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| "Tea Party!" by 413 Comics. Oh look, Julia is still beefing with the big bri'ish bloke. While Stifle appears to want to resolve the conflict and Khalil just wonders what these crumpets taste like. |
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| "Srimp Cocktaile" by Ratbile. Welp, vacation's over, so why don't we have a nice Shrimp Thingy cocktail to end it off? (I don't actually know how much the Shrimp Thingy tastes like shrimp.)) |
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| Attack by valeriapyranikova. THIS. IS. INSANE. Most detailed one so far! Some may call it...In-Sandy. |
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| "Picture time :D" by CheesieK3no. K and J may argue frequently, but they still besties by the end of the day <) |
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| Attack by Cornettosara. Julia really just loves the camera. |
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| "Cutie Sandy" by Pikihouse. Sandy once again looks AMAZING!!! |
...and...cut.
ENDING
So, ultimately, this has been one of the best 31 days of my life. Seeing my characters in different art styles, praising and being praised, seeing great content, stuff like that. I think Art Fight represents a positive attitude that should be applied to art in general.
First of all, this website completely prohibits from any A.I. usage, so it's only us "hand-drawn purists" here. ("Hand-drawn purist" comes from some stupid A.I. creator I won't name here.) Hey A.I. "artists"! Take the hint and start working on your own natural art instead of taking the lazy way out. You'll feel better about it in the long-run.
Secondly, there's actual filters to the content you see here. While artists of all skill levels are allowed, there will be consequences for repeadtly low quality artwork. Not to mention the filters for gore, nudity, stuff like that, similar to Newgrounds. They also have strict policies on what has to be labeled as too inappropriate (i.e. fetishization) and will take action if it's not allowed. You should take some notes, DeviantArt.
Lastly, instead of constant criticism and mocking for skills (a.k.a. most of Twitter), Art Fight is a continuously constructive and positive place where users of ALL skills- newbies to experts- can share their work. I actually think my art improved a lot by doing Art Fight, as I experimented with using other characters. Art Fight has also allowed me to be grateful and appreciative for everyone's unique art styles and skills.
My first year at Art Fight was amazing, and I certainly will do it again next year. I bet 16-year-old me's art may look even better than my art right now.
If you're even moderately good at art and have the time, consider joining Art Fight next July.
Thanks for reading!
- ninesevenpotatoes, 2025
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