team seafoam let's gooooooo!!
I'm going on a big 8 hours long car trip tomorrow but I'm so SO hyped to start working on the sketch of my mass attack once I'm home!! I hope i won't be too tired~
Also turns out my plan for my mass attack went well, I found enough OCs, contacted some owners and everything is going so well it's so great, I'm glad it didn't stress me out too much! My only little issue right now is that my tablet's (that I had for the past 8 years) cable broke a little bit and now there's exposed wires... I just found out about this today, I don't know how long it has been like that. I guess it happened because things don't last forever, I'm not too worried about it still, I use it 30 minutes ago and it's working great, I hope it will last at least for July, then I can work on getting a new cable.
I'll be mainly focus on my mass attack + won't have a proper place to settle down and draw so I'm not sure how much I'll have time/energy to work on regular attacks/revenges, but I can't wait to do that too that's for sure!!
tdlr: i'm an angry old man crying about fictional characters and artfight
Yeah that's just unfortunate but I should have expected it.
I have a plan to make a mass attack for this upcoming artfight, themed around a pretty speciphic pokemon theme. And I need a lot of OCs with this theme.
Finding those OCs was already complicated, because some weren't properly tagged so they couldn't show up in the research feature. Some were not showing up half of the time despite being tagged, but I guess it's a weird bug that hasn't been addressed to artfight yet? And some were only accessible through Toyhouse portals, which I hate because it's litteraly impossible to find with tags on artfight. Like I had to dig up the entirety of Toyhouse to THEN find a Artfight portal for those specific OCs.
Anyway I had my handful of OCs all neatly organized in a google doc, until I realise that Artfight was indeed coming and that not every single owners of those OCs would be active. Some have hidden some OCs and because I only saved a link to the character, I can't check who the owner is and can't ask to unhide the character anymore.
When your goal is to include 30-35 characters in a drawing where each individual characters need to accupy a very specific space, seeing that 10 of them are hidden or their owners won't be active this year really hurts.
Like I know it is what it is, but omg this mass attack was like my only purpose to join artfight at this point. I still want to make something else aside from the mass attack, but this WAS supposed to be the big thing that I thought of all year long. You don't know how many sleepless nights I had because I was just drawing in my head how the attack would look like. I was even thinking about recording the whole process and posting a speedpaint once it's over.
And now I have to wait and see, that's litteraly all I can do: see which OCs will desappear and how bad my mass attack is progressively going to look.
I don't know what emotion I'm feeling right now, I'm sad, hurt, angry and wanting to give up slightly crossed my mind for a few seconds. This is so dumb. I don't want to give up on it, I really don't, but if there's a just few characters left there's no point in this mass attack anymore (the visual key of artwork is that there's 2 groups of characters opposing each other, so I need a equal/almost equal amount on each side, and it's looking really bad, and no the characters can't switch sides).
I might need to look for a plan B at this point.