Art Fight

Art Fight's official Tumblr account! Please check our About and FAQ pages for more information.

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Welcome to Art Fight!

This is the official Tumblr account for Art Fight, an annual, online art trading event that takes place every July!

Read more about the event on our About page and look through our FAQ page for answers to some commonly asked questions. Please feel free to send in an ask for general questions related to Art Fight, though any specific inquiries or concerns should be taken up with a moderator on-site or through our Discord server.

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Site, event, & server updates will be posted here. Please reach out if you have a concern with the blog.

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How would one rate/categorize a PNGTuber attack?

PNGTuber models can be rated as Drawn/Painted with the 2D VTuber Rig animation technique. Your model must be rigged by hand. See this page for more details:

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What do YOU think the theme will be this year?! 👀

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Sorry if this has already been answered, but is traditional art allowed?

Traditional art has always been welcomed on Art Fight! The Drawn/Painted category is for any illustration, traditional or digital.

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I have an OC who is a sportsperson and uses specific real-world equipment that says a lot about their personality - is there a policy about drawing brand logos or branded products (like a specific make of shoes) in references or attacks?

Any logos cannot be copied and pasted into the character image or attack, but must be redrawn to be included. See Upload Rule #1 for more details:

All artworks and characters posted to Art Fight must be your own, or ones you have explicit permission to use with credit.

You may not directly use an image you do not have the rights to use, directly copy someone else’s work, trace someone else’s work, or use someone else’s illustration as a component of your art.

Copyrighted materials such as logos, mascots, and album covers must be redrawn to be included in character images and attacks.

Unaltered canon characters cannot be uploaded as characters or included in any artworks uploaded to the site, but can be drawn as objects (i.e. on a t-shirt, as a plushie/doll, etc.).

You may not include other’s artwork in attacks, including leaving reference images in the corner of the final piece.

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would there be any possibility of organising characters? there are some characters of mine i'd like to pin. or maybe rearranging characters so they're in a nice order? (not a huge ask, but maybe a feature to consider?)

You can currently organize the order of your characters through the Manage Characters page, which is available under the dropdown menu under your profile picture in the upper right hand corner of the site.

The ability to sort characters into folders was a 2025 Tier 1 Goal, which has been met but not yet implemented. You can find our completion tracker here:

Art Fight Tier Completion Tracker

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Art Fight 2026 Theme Reveal

Please join us on Sunday, June 14th for the 2026 Art Fight Theme Reveal, which will stream live on our YouTube. The stream will start at 10:00am EDT (2:00pm UTC) and run until 4:00pm EDT (8:00pm UTC) at which point the team reveal animation will play!

If you aren't able to make it to the stream - no worries! The themes will be announced onsite and the animation will be posted to our YouTube. We'll make sure the thumbnail is spoiler-free in the first week as well! Please block the following tag on Tumblr if you do not want to be spoiled: #ThemeReveal2026

That isn't all! Please make sure to check out the newspost for some additional announcements and reminders. This includes more information on our rules update! Immediately following the form's closure, we began reviewing your responses and are working on summarizing all of the data we collected. A separate newspost addressing your feedback and our path forward should be released in the coming days, so please stay tuned! Thank you for your feedback and patience with us during this period!

You can read the newspost in full below:

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What if I drew a character that was not in the person's profile but is mentioned to have a connection with the attackable character? Like draw their moment together. They have other sites like toyhouse. How do I rate my work?

You can add the Artfight character you are drawing twice in the character field to receive points for the other character as well! Make sure the character count represents the amount of characters you have drawn in the end.

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If I archive or delete a character, will the defenses previously made of that character be hidden from my Defenses tab? Or will they still be publicly listed?

No, any defenses attached to an archived or deleted character will remain intact and be publicly available.

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Art Fight 2026 Theme Reveal

Please join us on Sunday, June 14th for the 2026 Art Fight Theme Reveal, which will stream live on our YouTube. The stream will start at 10:00am EDT (2:00pm UTC) and run until 4:00pm EDT (8:00pm UTC) at which point the team reveal animation will play!

If you aren't able to make it to the stream - no worries! The themes will be announced onsite and the animation will be posted to our YouTube. We'll make sure the thumbnail is spoiler-free in the first week as well! Please block the following tag on Tumblr if you do not want to be spoiled: #ThemeReveal2026

That isn't all! Please make sure to check out the newspost for some additional announcements and reminders. This includes more information on our rules update! Immediately following the form's closure, we began reviewing your responses and are working on summarizing all of the data we collected. A separate newspost addressing your feedback and our path forward should be released in the coming days, so please stay tuned! Thank you for your feedback and patience with us during this period!

You can read the newspost in full below:

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theres a username i would like to change mine too, but it belongs to a banned user so its not letting me claim it since its already in use. is that supposed to happen or is there a way i can have that username? thanks

Unfortunately we are not able to grant you the usernames of banned or inactive users. Apologies for the inconvenience!

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out of curiosity could i like… submit my cat as a character? for people to draw her?

Yes! We allow users to upload their own pets as characters.

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Are video submissions allowed for AF?

The site does not currently support video file formats. If you wanted to submit a video as an attack, you may upload a still frame as the main image and link to the full video in the description.

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after the switch to HTML, every image I add to my description is the same large size by default. when I make it smaller, I still can't have multiple images in one row. it's really messing with my layout and idk what to do about it

You can change the size of images and how they're displayed in your description via HTML now! To do this, you need to first open Code View.

Once there, you can edit everything included in our whitelist for HTML, which you can see in our Art Fight HTML Guidelines document.

As an example, to change the size of an image, you need to edit the style of your <img> tag that contains the link of the image you're trying to edit.

In this image, I resized the second image (which used to be 300x300px by default) to be 100x100px. Now, exiting code view, it looks like this in editor:

Here's some other resources that could be useful for you: W3Schools, Bootstrap Documentation

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Additionally, you can also edit an image file without going into HTML! All you need to do is click on the image, click on the ruler icon on the menu that pops up, and input the size you want.

For both methods of changing image size, if you set only the height or width of the image and leave the other as auto, it’ll proportionally downsize the image!

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Hey question, so some of my ocs have weapons that I would like to put in their references but I am not sure about how to go on censoring them if I have to

[no blood involved just weapon on display]

But do I have to censor it all? Like some have gvns while others have melee weapons like axes or knives, or ranged weapons like bows/crossbows, is there levels to what needs and doesn’t need to be censored?

Weapons themselves do not require any filters on Art Fight. However, if a firearm is depicted being pointed at the wielder’s head, it would require a Sensitive Content filter.

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Hi, we had an idea with some friends and I understand if it's against the rules we won't post it on the site, but basically we thought it'd be fun on the last day to do a magma session with two canvas, one with everyone on team 1 and an other one with everyone on team 2 and we'd all draw each other's ocs then one person on each team would post their canvas and credit everyone who participated with every ocs that were drawn. Would it be possible to post it then if every participants agree of course? I hope it's clear thanks for your answer

Having one person upload everyone else’s drawings would not be allowed. Upload Rule #4.A states:

"You may not collaborate with others when making attacks. Attacks must be made solely by you."

You could still do the Drawpile together, but each person would need to upload the drawing they personally made on the board themselves.

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hi!

been working on my bio with the new html features and it's been really cool! however i find some properties refuse to apply when I save my bio? they appear in the real-time preview of my profile but when I save the changes and refresh my main profile, they're deleted from the code? it's small things such as properties like "display: flex" or flex containers!

is this a limitation of the html? is it a small glitch? ty!

Hello! Unfortunately, "display:flex" is not whitelisted; should be using the d-flex class from Bootstrap instead. You can read more about flex containers in Bootstrap Documentation, and you can check our whitelist for HTML/CSS here: Artfight HTML Guidelines