ULTIMATE beginner art fight guide for anybody worried

Amazing video! This will be my third year doing artfight and I wish I had this video back in 2022. A thing I’ve found is that while it’s etiquette to revenge someone don’t feel too pressured to. Peoples battle ratio (the ratio in which someone recieves attacks and gives back defences) tend to fall around 30%-50% if you aren’t into the oc’s the attacker has up. A nice thank you comment for the attack is more than enough. Some people can get upset if they don’t get a revenge back but remember you are not obligated to make someone else art if they made some of yours !! Anyways, amazing vid 😊

I always love looking at random profiles instead of random characters because that way I instantly look at ALL their characters

honestly if you just attack people, you're gonna get attack back at some point anyway 🤷

i fall perfectly into a scammer looking profile… help… 😭

Hi! I've been participating in Artfight for about 5 years now! Here's some tips I can offer from a lot of the topics throughout this video: - Even though the "How It Works" page says teams are assigned randomly, you CAN choose your team manually! If you ever change your mind mid-event, you can switch to the other team ONCE PER EVENT, or opt out of the event as a spectator! - "Polished" generally refers to an attack you spent a lot of time and/or effort on refining and making look good (i.e., cleaning up sketch, lineart or coloring)! - Sometimes you'll find an account with a lot of art/characters, but no links. Some artists just don't link their socials in the "Other Links" box; if you ever want to find them on other social media or know where to tag them (if you plan on posting art you drew for them), it's generally accepted to just private message them and ask! If they're active during the event and see your message, they'll most likely respond! Don't be shy! - If you're ever confused about someone's art/style, if they haven't posted any of their own attacks but have characters up: I recommend looking at the art credit that's included below every reference image on a character's page! Proper art credit is required when uploading character art on Artfight, and can tell you which reference images were/weren't drawn by the uploader. - There are some users who aren't artists, but upload and participate in Artfight anyways. This is usually just for the fun of getting art of their characters if they don't have the skills to draw them! If you're mostly in Artfight for the fun of drawing for others and don't care much about revenges (being attacked back), consider these users easy points! You might be making someone's day while you're at it! - You can usually tell who is/isn't participating in Artfight by looking at the color of their username after the site opens team registration! If someone IS participating, their username will be colored similarly to either team of the ongoing event! If someone ISN'T participating, their name will stay gray to indicate that they're spectating. Always keep an eye out for the colors of peoples' usernames if you want to attack them! - Don't plan too early before the event! Some characters you bookmarked earlier in the year/the year before might be hidden or deleted by the time the next event rolls around. I recommend searching for characters a month or two before the event! Or, if you've already done your early-bird browsing, refraining from planning anything until the character's owner has chosen a team or until the event has started! Above all, though, HAVE FUN!! 🎨💝

i dont have much of an online presence and on my first artfight i got 7 attacks, i think it just depends if people find your characters somehow, hell i don't even link my socials

the goal of artfight is to make art of other people's characters and create a wholesome bond with other artists and appreciate characters.

this video is pretty good, other than saying that you "have" to attack people back, even if you dislike their characters (you do not need to do this people, do not attack people that you don't want to attack, even if they draw you something; they are not owed art back just because they made you something. Attacking everyone who attacks you, even when you don't want to, is going to give you burn out and make you not want to join art fight again), other than that though, pretty well made very and the animation you were making looks dope

Honestly I like the fact that you gotta give us that slap in the face w reality about the chances of actually getting art- esp as a first year and an avg artist. Even though AF is about getting art of your own chars- its also about improving yourself and you can't genuinely expect that much. As long as ur having fun though, as much as it would be nice to get art on your own, I think AF teaches a lesson in its own way and that's what is enjoyable about it, great video!

I think one of my favorite parts of ArtFight last year was definitely being some random people’s first attacks. (I have a habit of going on a random attack spree). The thank yous I got back saying how happy they were to get their first attack really shaped my entire ArtFight experience. (ALSO TEAM SEAFOAM 🗣️🗣️🗣️)

ur not required to attack back

This is my fourth art fight !! I just started working on redrawing my refs from last year. My advice is to try and get defenses, rather than wait for an attack (since most people won't attack you out of nowhere). I also love clicking "random profile" or "random character" in order to find people to attack. ALSO I HATE THE ART FIGHT SITE I NEED IT TO BE MORE USER FRIENDLY PLEASE

Boosting! a lot of my friends genuinely dk how af works so they don’t join 😢☠️

I literally signed up today with no knowledge about anything so this is a lifesaver-

This upcoming year is my 6th year. With how many attacks I’ve done Ive never encountered a “scammer” for you to have encountered enough to be a worrie you must be quite unlucky. People have already mentioned, but you don’t have to revenge. It’s nice but 99.99% of people will not be upset by you not. Remember peeps it’s for fun. it doesn’t matter if you do 1 or 100 attacks and how “good” or “quality” they are. My tip for the polish is if the artwork took longer even though it’s the same or less in terms of the other categories just add it. It dosnt give that much over all it’s a good sprinkle. (Like if the character is detailed and you put in that def add it on.) Anyways, have fun yall, my user is same as here, I’m ready to fight!

honestly js learned abt this rn 😭 but the guide is so helpful and the animation is GORGEOUSSS <3

First artfight this year scared shitless and only have one oc up cuz i have no clue who else to put there thanks for the stuff funi youtube person!!!! Goodluck everyone :3

The rumors about artfight plus the "oh, you need such a complicated ref sheet plus lore!!" and just the "oh artfight is REALLY complicated" was what scared me into joining. I had made an account in 2019 with the intent of joining that year but with the rumors plus personal problems I had at the time, I ended up not joining and my account had became 5 years old with no stats or art attached to it. This year, I have decided to join and have been working on my bio plus adding ocs and boundaries for art I draw plus my ocs. The website overall had became a very scary website to me from rumors and the high expectations people made it out to be to where I was going to back out this year numerous times. Thank you for making this!! It has lifted my spirits a little about facing my fears to join this year!! :D

ILY FOR THIS ITS MY FIRST ART FIGHT

this is my first year, so tysm for the advice! i haven't drawn alot recently and this sounds like a nice opportunity to get back into just doing art for fun