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6.24.2025: Nervous about Artfight
Artfight is coming up really soon! For those of you that don't know, Artfight is an Internet event that happens each year during the month of July that hundreds of thousands of people participate in. It's hosted on artfight.net and works like this:
- All the participants are split into two teams (you can also choose your teams ahead of time). The teams vary year-to-year, but this year the teams are Fossils and Crystals. The goal is for your team to win by getting the most points.
- Everybody uploads references of their original characters to their account.
- When it starts on July 1st, everybody starts earning their team points by drawing the other team's participants' characters. Each drawing you do of another person's character is called an "attack" and it gets your team a certain number of points depending on the complexity.
- This goes on all month and whichever team has the most points at the end wins!
I've always watched Artfight happen from a distance. I've been following artists online since like... 2017 or so? and most of them participated. I've always been either too busy or too scared to join myself.
But this year, that changes!
I went ahead and chose my team ahead of time (I chose Fossils, of course. Who do you think I am?) and now I'm working on references for my characters. I'm gonna try and get five character references drawn up before July starts. That feels like a manageable number to me. I think I have maybe... 30 original characters that have solid designs? That number might be a little off. Anyways, I'm obviously not going to draw and upload 30 references in the next six days, especially considering the last three of those days I'll be in Iowa & too busy to draw much.
To be honest, I'm a little nervous for my first year participating! But most of my friends who draw are doing it with me, which makes it a little less nervewracking.
I'm going to try and get those references uploaded once I get the art section of the website up and running. I've been putting it off because I can't decide how to organize that section. I'll get a couple second opinions and see what works.
On the subject of coding, I think I'm going to try and get the tag system for the blog working tonight. I think I've figured out a good way to do it. It'll be a little tedious, but that's okay. It's kind of fun to try and work out coding problems like that with no guidance.
Sincerely,
Sam