I like writing journals here. It's nostalgic bc of my old deviantart days but also a good place to ramble about my projects and art escapades I suppose. And in this case: talking about my Secret Artfight Attack
See, last year I surprised my friend by putting out an animatic I had, unbeknownst to anyone, been working on the entire month. Once the final day came around I uploaded it and received exceptional reactions along the lines of praise and declaring I'm insane. This year I had mentioned many times that I'm absolutely not doing an animatic- saying it in a way that (hopefully) made it seem like I just cant put in the work for "something like that".
I absolutely did NOT make an animatic this time. But I am putting together a hand-drawn animation. It's a little over 160 frames I believe (but each drawing takes the place of 2 frames, so about 80 drawings). It's been nice to actually do animation work again. And also I think this will be really funny to surprise my friend with
It's been taking a little longer than expected. I started doing lip sync this weekend and my god did that give me trouble- part of which was because I was being stubborn. But I'm now back in a better flow for the time being. It's definitely getting done by august 3rd, at least the base animation. The plan is to refine everything on paper but We Shall See!
And for fun, here's WIP 1 and WIP 3 of the animation so far!!!
After posting a journal detailing recent drama (previous journal) i felt the desire to at least have my newest displayed journal be a more positive one haha
I recently finished an attack against a really good friend that went super well! i definitely do not want to mimic mosaic art again LOL but im very happy with the piece (which, as of posting this journal, has not been posted to sheezy, but soon!)
I'm also going to some sort of... fairytale exhibit thing today. i dont have much more info than that bc ive elected to stay blind to most of it. Im excited though on acount this is absolutely my area of interest :p
GENERALLY, im having a great time with artfight as i always have! 6 years and have never had any big issues... until now. lol
It's a weird situation to be in for sure? Someone, a good mutual of mine, drawing a beautiful revenge piece against me. The problem being that they shipped two characters of mine that super are not supposed to be together. One of them being my sona, a dnd self-insert. i certainly was not comfortable with having a drawing of me with a character (sueno aka fairy AU varian) i dont want to be shipped with
Granted the character's bf (droom aka fairy AU hugo) does look like me a little bit i guess (lanky, pale, same hairstyle and same stupid round glasses on he head). but... the right character IS linked under varian's description? with permissions explicitly stating NONE of my characters are ok to ship with others UNLESS it's with their canonical partners
It was not done with malice, I know it was just an honest mistake on their part. So I made sure to say I was not upset, that the piece was beautiful, that im genuinely really grateful for it AND that they can even keep it up on artfight so as to not lose any points. but I also requested it be either cropped to be just varian on instagram, or just removed from instagram
This did not go super well. They did respond to me asking what I would like out of the situation (which is where I mentioned I have no issue with it staying on artfight but would like to have the instagram post altered). They said they needed to think about it, which I was fine with (and, once again, made sure to say it's still really nice and I appreciate the understanding). Next thing I know both the post and attack are deleted and I'm blocked on instagram and artfight.
I did catch that their story on instagram was them venting about not wanting to do artfight anymore, that people have repeatedly nitpicked and been ungrateful for the free, full rendered art they create. and that does SUCK... but why am I being associated with that, yknow? they made this right after I tried to voice being rather uncomfortable with being paired with a character while making it clear i was NOT upset and still super grateful and that the art was stunning etc etc etc. They even drew vent art of themselves looking at their phone all shocked and sad about my message? agh
I'm bummed out I've lost a cool mutual over this. They're a great artist, I've commissioned them I think three times now and enjoy artfight with them, I was looking forward to more commissions/trades but that's not really in the cards anymore. Along with that I'm kind of just... confused? As to what happened? And a little hurt by their reaction to all this. It seems unfair to me.
Like I said. weird situation all around. It started the night before yesterday so I'm less anxious about the whole thing at least, but obviously still feel the need to vent because wtf is going on lol. It's not impossible I'll delete this journal later, but I wanted to share this somewhere and this is a good place since I dont have nearly as big of a following as I do other places haha
absolutely sick and twisted that while i feel insanely motivated to draw and draw and draw, i have to force myself to Not Keep Going with artfight attacks every waking hour. i havent had burnout and i'd wager it's because i'm trying to be more disciplined. but good god. i could keep going. im restless and impulsive 24/7 and when i have only ME to control myself well i get ANTSY ! im going to start a new attack. i've earned this. i've waited all day.
i could also draw a funny mouse. unrelated to artfight. perhaps. perhaps