#long ask

artfight this year was genuinely so bad that im considering never participating again. it made me hate my original ocs that i used to love more than anything. my original ocs didn't get attacked at all by anyone besides revenges my friends did and not even all of my friends revenged me when i attacked everyone by day 2. i had such high hopes and i feel so hopeless. they can attack the people who made fun of me to my face but not me?? and on top of it all i just feel so greedy for expecting something. anything.

its not that i didnt get attacks at all either but the fact only 3 people bothered to attack me unprompted, i got less than half of the attacks i got last year, and the fact not even all of my friends could bother to even sketch a headshot... idk maybe im in the wrong for wanting something. i know im not entitled to a revenge or anything but my own friends? especially when they did attack other people? :(

that being said one of the instances was probably my most flat chested woman being given a much bigger chest then what she actually has. it's not drastically, comically massive badonkadoo sized, and i do still really like the attack as easily the attack on one of my most beloved ocs that best captures what mischievous little shit she is! it was also drawn by a beloved mutual which adds extra "i really don't wanna say anything and stir the pot" energy

but also. please. she's so flat chested that it doesn't even look like she has boobs in most the refs. it's barely there in the other refs. thank you so much for the lovely art of my beloved, but also where did those even come from

(the other instance i don't mind at all though - an oc who i keep very thin for a very specific effect in his silhouette was drawn massively buff. the artist drew the character in such a dapper alt outfit the oc would LOVE with the most delightfully dramatic pose for my dork that's otherwise so immaculately in character. i've accepted this one in my heart as 'innaccurate to how the character is actually built but 100% accurate to how he'd wanna be portrayed because he would be delighted beyond belief to look Like That' its just funny cause a plot point i didn't put in his bio explicitly requires him to be thin af since he's one of the only characters in his story that was able to fit through a particular hidden passage)

anyways I really wanna ask 3D artists who've been at it longer than me what was under these lighting and finish subcategories cause I really do think 3D attacks could use lighting and/or shader subcategories, but if lighting were to be brought back I'd do it VERY differently. maybe viewport/matcap vs custom lighting vs HDRI or something like that. unfortunately despite being a 3D artist myself I don't have 3D friends that do art fight who I could discuss this with cause I really wanna send the staff suggestions for this, so I'm really curious what other 3D artists think. I'm just a little salty that workbench renders/screencaps can net as many points as attacks with custom shaders and lighting setups

First of all. It doesn’t actually match completely what I’m looking for. Second thing is even if it did, i wouldn’t respond because I’m not 100% certain I’ll end up finishing that attack, so I’m not going to respond to you. This is to prevent me from feeling forced to do the attack and you from getting your hopes up. Thirdly!!! Just like, take a hint dude, like obviously I see your message, you don’t gotta reply to me 3!! times!! Maybe I don’t want to draw your character??? It’s not like I was getting a crazy amount of replies so yeah dude I saw your message I don’t want to draw your OC man.

And each time they got more weirdly aggressive, like “HEY, i got this OC that matches what you want 🙂🙂🙂🙂” like LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!

I have in my OCs permissions that I prefer people not to remove their hat (because for some reason even people I commission outside of artfight or art trade with randomly decide to remove it) and that I don't really care that much but it's preferred-

One person draws them and starts freaking out in the description that they hope it's okey that they weren't wearing their hat because they were holding it instead- so I say yeah that's fine, and decide to update her perms to say it's fine if they are not wearing it but it's in the scene I even link some examples of art like that of them bc why not-

NOW TELL ME WHY- they've gotten 2 more attacks where they hat is in the shot but not on their head and both those people have also been like "I know they aren't wearing their hat but yaddayaddayadda" like- ??? I get being anxious about perms but cmon man how much clearer can I be and surely common sense can be applied to know drawing them holding the hat is fine even BEFORE I clarified WITH examples-

i’ve recieved 30 attacks this year, 17 of which were mass attacks with one of them in it, and 4 of which were just a doodle of one of them.

i don’t even care if it means i’ll get less attacks over all, i just want people to attack the characters i care more about and put a lot of effort into designing. and so that i can equally revenge. maybe it’s just a me thing but i like to make revenges of equal standing? effort? idk, of whatever i received. if i get a flat color quick doodle of a simple shaped guy and the person only has highly detailed complicated characters (something i’ve seen with a lot of people who attacked me this year) i am just not revenging it i’m sorry.