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remember u cannot CANNOT post canon characters in your attacks

so if you REALLY want someone to draw ur cute oc smooching ur blorbo man...it needs to be edited in some way that the canon character isn't visible (or maybe even do it as a lil bonus outside of the attack)

(i dont remember if this extends to if you completely change what the character looks like/their au design character rule)

and then chuck the full image at them in some other way (perhaps in a dm or other social media)

https://artfight.net/~Prof-Owl

I'm trying to set up my Art Fight right now. Looks like I made an account way back.

idk what i'm doing

how do i add characters?

How are people making those cool team fossil and team crystal sheets??

go up to the menu on the right! Click on "characters" under the "manage" section".

click "submit new character" and then fill in the fields! Something that they added last year (?) that i really like is the cropping tool for the thumbnail! This means that you dont have to go through the effort of making a separate thumbnail, you can just plug in hte same photo that you used for the reference and then crop it down to where you want. tho people do make yearly borders to go around them for personal use or for everybody, which are fun! pros to making your own thumbnail and importing it separately. me? im lazy.

in permissions you can say stuff like "only draw my character in this outfit!" or "gender-bends are okay!" stuff like that. no gore or nsfw or whatever you want.

"Global permissions" are ones that appear on all your characters, and then you can add character-specific ones here. Like I allow nsfw for most characters in my global permissions, but then write that it's not allowed in this section on the few that I don't.

you can edit those in the settings section on your profile page:

https://artfight.net/~Prof-Owl

I'm trying to set up my Art Fight right now. Looks like I made an account way back.

idk what i'm doing

how do i add characters?

How are people making those cool team fossil and team crystal sheets??

You can find them on the site through Help > Art Assets and then scroll to "2025 Fossils vs Crystals"

direct link: (https://artfight.net/info/art-assets)

Username Changes are in Settings > Security > Change Username

direct link: (https://artfight.net/user/settings/security)

And here's the username information (from the site):

"Usernames:

can be a maximum of 20 characters long

may only contain letters (latin alphabet), numbers, and underscores

must not use words that go against our Filter Guidelines

All users are given 1 free username change when they sign up, and will receive an additional free change once a year on January 1st. If you contribute $2+, you can receive additional username changes which will be credited to your account once your donation is processed.

Your account can hold up to 12 username changes at a time, and your username can only be changed once every 30 days.

What is friendly fire/revenge?

What do the teams mean?

Do you have to draw something for everyone that draws for you? (I be having unmedicated ADHD and struggle to motivate myself to draw)

Is there a minimum number of characters you need? And how detailed do the references have to be? (I have some art of certain OCs but next to know official references for them.)

How is the website formatted?

Most importantly — am I too late to make an account (like is there verification I need to do that I’m too late for)?

Revange is when someone already made an attack on you so you reply to that with your own art. You just need to tag the person and choose the option that your art is a revange.

2. You just pick one of the two Teams. By drawing and posting attacks/revanges/friendly fire, you gain points for the Team you picked. It's basically just a friendly competition.

3. No, you don't have to draw for everyone. You can choose who you want to revange and nothing will happen if you don't reply to someone's attack.

4. There's no minimum number of characters you need. Some people have only one character and that's fine. I actually saw people who didn't have characters at all and they were only on ArtFight to attack.

I don't think there are any requirements for references. Nothing will happen if your references aren't super detailed. I had situations where I drew for people who had really rough sketches for references and it worked somehow. I think the only risk with having rough/messy references is that some people may not want to revange if they can't read the reference that well. But normal arts of your characters are totally fine! You do not need any official and detailed references.

5. I'll skip this one, because I'm not sure what it means and I'm not that good when it comes to website stuff aa-

6. Nah, I'm pretty sure you can join any time. I saw people making accounts and joining the ArtFight in the middle of the event. You're good! Although I would recommend to log in and prepare your account before it starts, because the website is ALWAYS extremely laggy in the first days of ArtFight.

Hello. I have created this account to share some liked images for those of you who are interested in decorating your page (on art fight in particular) with vintage themes.

Hi I had a question about something and I figured this was the best way to reach the Artfight staff. So I went to the Artfight website because I’ve been booking marking a lot of characters recently and just checking for updates and pretty recently I went on there and it seemed fine, but then the website glitched out and said I was rate limited and denied access to the website. I was just wondering what this means and if there’s anyway I could get unbanned. Thank you.

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Some people make a "hitlist" on Google forms to allow people to ask to be attacked by them, so they don't have to hunt for characters themselves.

And you can change your pfp through settings!

Before attacking go over site rules, attack and filter guides, character permissions. Nothing like a refresh after a year or longer without participating in the event. You don't want to accidently break the rules too.

Attack ocs with no attacks! It would make someone's day!

Update your ocs profile, art/refs and permissions if you need to!

If someone makes art for you, thank them. It's proper etiquette and it would make them feel appreciated.

DO NOT make art or start sketching until the time of the event! It's cheating and a bannable offense!

DO NOT abuse the polish option. Use it as many times as you want but DON'T point farm.

Save as many refs as you can of an oc you're going to attack. You can never have too many!

PLEASE respect someone's wishes. If they don't want their character drawn in a way, don't do it.

State what characters you want drawn the most! I added a heart on my ocs profile to indicate that. Or add it to characters permissions too!

If you want, add an image/icon to ocs profile that indicate they take place in the same universe.

If unsure what to draw for someone or have questions about the oc you are drawing (ex: Don't want to violate someone's permissions), ask the owner.

If the oc has a toyhouse/character hub link, click it! You might find extra refs you need or key info.

If someone does violate your ocs permissions don't hesitate to report it. Same goes for harmful material. Let's keep art fight safe or everyone this year and years to come.

This is totally optional! Donate to the site if you want. No one is obligated to. The site runs on donations to keep it up and running and to pay moderators. You also get cool perks too.

You don't have to revenge someone if you don't want to. You and no one else to obligated to make art for you. So don't beg anyone for art. That is not what art fight is about.

Keep mass attacks small. You don't want to stress. Depending on how detailed the characters are, keep it under 7 or less. For my first art fight I did 12 characters!

All attacks made for this year MUST be submitted for the year. If you made an attack for this year but didn't finish in time, you CANNOT submit if for next year. Same goes for chains. However, you can give it off as gift art to a user. The site encourages this.

Advertise your ocs or art fight profile. I've seen people make hit lists forms. This increases your chances of getting attacked.

If you want someone to make/draw different outfits for ocs, make mood boards for them (i use pinterest) and link it to the profile.

Remember! Taking part in artfight is optional! It's all stress free and fun! Make as many attacks as you want. Just remember to take a break so you don't burn yourself out!

(Coming from someone very ADHD coded and on their 4th year)

Download your fav character pages as PDFs before July 1st so you can draw them while the site is down

Instead of just drawing "when I feel like drawing," set aside a specific time or amount of time each day to do your drawing in. This is how I get most of my procrastinated artwork done!

MAKE ROOM FOR BREAKS! Please do not draw for over an hour straight without a break! Set timers, get water, STRETCH THOSE WRISTS! Give yourself room to breathe and get some dopamine between drawing sessions.

If you do revenge but get easily overwhelmed, alternate between drawing revenge art and drawing non-revenge art. Best of both worlds!

Your biggest enemies during Art Fight are perfectionism and burnout. Not every art piece needs to be a perfect fullbody rendered masterpiece! No pressure!

On the same note, not every character needs a fully updated, elaborate ref sheet and a full bio! You'd be surprised at what artists can do with one old unshaded fullbody drawing and a few words.

You don't need to draw a background to get background points! Just drawing a character with a prop will get you the second-to-highest background score automatically.

If you want to breathe more life into your 2D art, draw the eyes on a separate layer and turn it into a simple blinking gif. Artists eat these up like hot cakes (we LOVE animated icons!) and they get you even more points than static art.

For extra fun when commenting on your defenses, save or draw memes ahead of time to code into your comments.