ArtFight & July

First year participating in ArtFight, and it was pretty neat! I had:

• Attacks: 7, Friendly Fire: 2, Defenses: 7

Which was pretty nice! I was thinking I would do at least 10 attacks, maybe hitting 15, but sadly I didn't hit that goal since I burned out midway through. Part of the burn out was from making so many attacks at the beginning, but I also ran into the issue of wanting to attack some OCs but the permissions were intimidating or I ran into characters that I wanted to draw that were "joke" characters and the owner didn't actually want people drawing them except under very specific circumstances. Also I got art blocked when trying to do revenges in order, so next time I'll just draw them in whatever order I can and hope the block clears up before the end.

Strangely enough it feels like I didn't make a lot of art, and yet when I look back at all that I did in July, it was a lot more!

• I got a VGen code at the end of June, so I set up what services I could on VGen and hosted an opening sale
• I completed 3 VGen commissions and worked on another one during July
• I finished up one big Art Raffle piece and started working on the second one

So yeah, there was a lot of art stuff I did! The other thing I want to do for ArtFight next year is actually separate my attacks between stuff I want to super duper polish and attacks that are quick cute/cool pieces. I got into "make it very good but not polished good" mindset which made it a little difficult when scoring attacks. A lot of my pieces didn't have what I'd personally consider polished, but they were still very good... I dunno, I might be stricter on myself instead of what ArtFight expects.

August

Now for August, I have a commission and a raffle drawing to finish up. Plus I think I want to take part in VGen's Monthly challenge of Mirror. Lots of stuff I could make for it, but gonna sit on it and think about it. I also want to make some stinger transitions properly and see if they might be a cool YCH commission to offer... if not then I want to have fun making them for my own streams! Also wan to make for stuff for my VTuber model. So many projects I want to work on! I'm both sad and glad Art Fight is done so I can now do some things for me and go back to commissions full time.

Oh and I'm behind on timelapses for my commission pieces! Gotta play catch up with those!

I have no idea if I'll have as much time as I did this year for next year's Art Fight, but I would like to join again next year!

Sheezy

I'm getting more used to Sheezy! It's been generally nice. I am a little disappointed that info about things are probably Discord locked, but I haven't ran into anything I haven't been able to dig through journals of people asking what X or Y is. It's not that I don't use Discord, but I really don't like knowledge being locked behind Discord. Other than that, like I said, Sheezy has been really nice, and my next wish is I'm hoping both it and AF will give the ability to not autoplay gifs for avatars/profile pics and well, everywhere. Unless the animation is super subtle, it can be really overwhelming. I didn't realize how important it was to have this as an accessibility option until I had it and then started using places that don't offer it.