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Artfight 2022 retrospective
3 years ago
Artfight 2022 is over now and it's time to make up the balance!
Some time before the event started I had scoured the random characters list for potential targets. I collected a whole bunch and then, when the time actually came, I barely even used the pile. I did pick some targets out of it, but not nearly as many as I had intended. I attacked some old targets and some new targets. Unfortunately not all my regular targets had signed up this year, so no Dustybun this time around.
Statistics
I did 20 attacks in total, 5 of which were friendly fire. Since the latter only give 20%, I scored lower than last year, but I still got a respectable 1214 points. Well and truly above the team average (which, unfortunately, I can't calculate right now, but just trust me on it).
In response I received 11 pictures (10 on artfight, 1 afterwards). There were 1 Sterling, 1 Faith, 3 Siobhans, 3 Yi Meis, a Carbon, a Nicole and a bun. That's about everyone I listed on there represented except for yours truly, so I'm quite happy with the variety ^^
Observations
Character art seems to come in two flavours: there's drawing a likeness of a character, and then there's drawing the actual character. While there are absolutely gorgeous likenesses out there, I find that the more memorable pics tend to be the ones that really capture the soul of the character. The ones that show what a character is like.
In my case, the reverse seems true as well. I tend to do my best work when I have character-traits to work off of. When I'm faced with a character with no particular personality, I really have a hard time drawing them. It is such a shame how many OCs I've encountered on artfight who just show no character whatsoever; not in the reference image, nor in the description (if it even exists). Notable offenders are of the "adopt" variety. More often than not they're a relatively generic pose with a relatively generic body type and, to make them actually distinct, a very specific fur pattern. The latter unfortunately does not compensate for the former. The references often look astounding, yet they're utterly lifeless; they spark no ideas in me whatsoever.
It just makes a little sad. So many potential doodles that are just stillborn because there was no description whatsoever, when a couple of words would've sufficed. "Sweet tooth"? Draw something involving cookies. "Nerd"? Involve computers or games. Such, such a shame...
Another smaller observation: toyhouse must have THE most obnoxious watermark ever. It's just their logo plastered top to bottom, left to right all over the image to the point of actually obscuring the actual character. It's a hard pass for me the moment I spot one of those in a user's gallery.
Conclusion
The fighting was good this year and I like to think I drew some good quality attacks. I had a bit of a slump toward the end (I didn't receive anything for 10 consecutive days), but it picked up again at the end.
I will start posting my attacks over the next few days. Apologies for the dump (I really should just post them while the fight is happening...)
Some time before the event started I had scoured the random characters list for potential targets. I collected a whole bunch and then, when the time actually came, I barely even used the pile. I did pick some targets out of it, but not nearly as many as I had intended. I attacked some old targets and some new targets. Unfortunately not all my regular targets had signed up this year, so no Dustybun this time around.
Statistics
I did 20 attacks in total, 5 of which were friendly fire. Since the latter only give 20%, I scored lower than last year, but I still got a respectable 1214 points. Well and truly above the team average (which, unfortunately, I can't calculate right now, but just trust me on it).
In response I received 11 pictures (10 on artfight, 1 afterwards). There were 1 Sterling, 1 Faith, 3 Siobhans, 3 Yi Meis, a Carbon, a Nicole and a bun. That's about everyone I listed on there represented except for yours truly, so I'm quite happy with the variety ^^
Observations
Character art seems to come in two flavours: there's drawing a likeness of a character, and then there's drawing the actual character. While there are absolutely gorgeous likenesses out there, I find that the more memorable pics tend to be the ones that really capture the soul of the character. The ones that show what a character is like.
In my case, the reverse seems true as well. I tend to do my best work when I have character-traits to work off of. When I'm faced with a character with no particular personality, I really have a hard time drawing them. It is such a shame how many OCs I've encountered on artfight who just show no character whatsoever; not in the reference image, nor in the description (if it even exists). Notable offenders are of the "adopt" variety. More often than not they're a relatively generic pose with a relatively generic body type and, to make them actually distinct, a very specific fur pattern. The latter unfortunately does not compensate for the former. The references often look astounding, yet they're utterly lifeless; they spark no ideas in me whatsoever.
It just makes a little sad. So many potential doodles that are just stillborn because there was no description whatsoever, when a couple of words would've sufficed. "Sweet tooth"? Draw something involving cookies. "Nerd"? Involve computers or games. Such, such a shame...
Another smaller observation: toyhouse must have THE most obnoxious watermark ever. It's just their logo plastered top to bottom, left to right all over the image to the point of actually obscuring the actual character. It's a hard pass for me the moment I spot one of those in a user's gallery.
Conclusion
The fighting was good this year and I like to think I drew some good quality attacks. I had a bit of a slump toward the end (I didn't receive anything for 10 consecutive days), but it picked up again at the end.
I will start posting my attacks over the next few days. Apologies for the dump (I really should just post them while the fight is happening...)
sailoranna
~sailoranna
well it was well fought, you did fantastic. I dont think I got even close the 1 time I did it and I thought I really out did most people at the time. You went above and beyond. Really proud of ya.
