revs!!

they/them

[artfight]

2026's prep prompts are here! We've assembled a bingo board to help you prepare for this year's event. You don't have to complete all prompts; do what you're able to do and have fun! Feel free to show off your prep work using the tag #AFPrepPrompts2026

Prompt List Transcript

Special thanks to scribedhearts for the graphic!

[ivy-vinezz]

༄ Artfight ‘26 Graphics // Personal

･ ⟢ ⋮ Free to use, credit not required but appreciated. Reposts/Edits/Recolours/adding to Masterlists or hoards allowed. Please do not modify my work with AI.

IM SO EXCITEDDD FOR ARTFIGHT OMGGGGG!! Which team will you choose? Miami Dolphins vs Evil Intimidating Horse vs Fake Smile Girl!!!!

my Artfight!

[chaonott]

portrait of sparkbird™️ choking holding a cardinal 😊🪶

[loveletterworm]

It is done (enough)!

I would hype it up more but this is really really simple. It randomly generates a set of symbols, colors, and a word, and then the expected thing to do with those is you draw some sort of character based off the result you get. So it's just an art challenge toy thingy.

There are also some practical features like you can lock parts of the result in place to rerandomize the rest, or hide parts of the generation you don't care about (like if you want to pick your own colors or hate the words being there)

You can try it out over on itch.io!

It should run in browser, but there's also a downloadable version for Windows if you want to use it offline. (No mac/linux versions for now, because I don't have appropriate computers to test those on and I...don't want to deal with mac's developer accounts or whatever their problem is...)

Here's something I made from one of the results I got for the sake of example:

(It's a bit of a rushed drawing sorry I just wanted to get the actual generator out there)

I hope everyone has fun with it :]

[ever-gre3n]

my first „SPACE!!! (I’m so negative)” art showcase submission!! (also kinda maybe my first post here that’s not a reblog, so uh. hi 👋) annnd it’s a sparkbag :3

[sparkbirdmusic]

SPARKBAG OMG

this is so awesome, did you just happen to already have that astronaut helmet patch?! I hope I get to see this in person at a show someday!

[ever-gre3n]

I actually saw it in a shop and immediately thought of space!!! so I HAD to buy it haha

I reaaally hope I get to go to one of your shows one day <3 (pretty please come to Europe?)

[ever-gre3n]

aaaand submission number 2!!! this was reallyyy fun to make (although the hermit warbler took me a while to embroider-) either way I’m pretty proud of how it turned out!!

[ever-gre3n]

my first „SPACE!!! (I’m so negative)” art showcase submission!! (also kinda maybe my first post here that’s not a reblog, so uh. hi 👋) annnd it’s a sparkbag :3

[c0smonox]

alternate ending to episode 8

[aphidclan-clangen]

(my script is in the alt text if ever the font is hard to read)

I’ve been getting a lot of asks wondering how I go about picking my colors for character designs, pages, backgrounds, etc, pretty much anything about color in general, and I figured in some attempt to try to answer them all at once, here’s my attempt at a color-centric art tutorial! I’m far from an expert on the subject, and I haven’t received any formal training on the matter, so this is entirely constructed of ideas I’ve gleaned from a bunch of snippets of different people’s advice over the years, studying other people’s art, and experimenting on my own to create something that works for me. Nonetheless, I feel passionate about the subject, and I hope this is able to help make color “click!” like a key in a hole for anyone who reads it. I had to discover my key-click moment on my own through trial and error, but i don’t believe in gatekeeping advice, so hopefully I can help you skip the trouble I went through lmfao.

None of this is meant to be like… a shaming or judgmental authoritative truth of “this is how it must always be done! anything outside of my vision is wrong and morally bad! Harrumph!!!” Especially since this is random shit I’ve figured out on my own with no formal training. It’s more just “if you are looking for something to ease your strain, perhaps this might help you give you what you need to have an easier time!” But most of the time I don’t even color my illustrations the way I do in this tutorial. Usually I try to balance & combine these principles with the “standard colors” that a scene is “supposed to be,” like if the ground is a concrete gray and the trees are green, I’ll keep them looking gray and green (depending on the lighting), but with the knowledge of “I want this to be a sad scene, so I’ll make the grays and greens lean heavily closer to blue, so the audience knows that it’s time to be sad.” Stuff like that. They’re cheat codes for strategic intent, not strict rules.

Now hopefully when it comes to covering more specific things, like how I design my characters, you guys now know the baseline foundation I’m running off of so I don’t have to explain all of this first before I get into the nitty-gritty hairs of “why I made this character purple and green vs why this character is blue and yellow” lmao.

Color is a hard subject to explain! Most of the color theory explanations I’ve heard primarily cover stuff like the science of reflecting light, then name drops all the famous kinds of color palettes, tells me what a cool vs warm color is, explains nothing else, and dips. Which, personally, has literally never been helpful for me when it comes to understanding why the fuck my painting should include the color blue in the shadows. Heaven forbid applying any of that shit to character design. Ough. No I had to figure that out on my own lmfao. So therefore this tutorial is more skewed towards that kind of perspective, someone who doesn’t really benefit (at least at this skill level) from the scientific cerebral shit. I want to know the why behind your creative choices!!! Tell me why the curtains must be blue!! That’s what’s important to me on a practical level. Dont get me wrong, I’m sure one day I’ll learn the purpose behind the scientific stuff, I’m sure there’s a reason behind it, but you’ve gotta figure out how to take the first steps at all to begin with before I can get to the master level stuff of like………scientifically understanding how bounce light works. And if we don’t understand why the curtains are blue, I don’t think we’re gonna get why the bounce light should be blue, too. So I wanted to explain it!!! I wanted to cover it!! Because I’ve never seen it explained before!!! And it’s important to know the why!!!

And uhm. Hopefully I managed to do an alright job at that lol. I hope you guys enjoy! <3

[rain3yaltoids]

F2U character sheet templates

A friend of mine was having trouble making reference sheets for her characters, so I made quite a few!

I figure these could be really useful if anyone else was struggling too, so these are all F2U

They could be really useful for Artfight, so keep that in mind :)

[omtai]

the shit you do to make a dying phone work when you dont wanna buy a new phone is amazing. my phone no longer charges unless i plug and unplug the charger exactly ten times & then flip the charger around then it works. I dont want to say i have to fuck the port a little bit first but i have to fuck the port a little bit first

[csny]

everymorning: i think im about to die. i think im going to die. im actually going to die. this is it. im going to die. im going to die immediately.

every single night: lock in. OK. Lock In. Change your Life. I love you. Lock in. This is going to be big. I’m going to change the world. Ready? I love you. Lock in. I have an idea. Lock in.

[sunbleachedbitch]

Me if I had a resteraunt on 14th of Febuary:

-> Homoerotic friendships eat FREE.

-> Couples pay double charge.

-> Lesbians eat free. Single or coupled.

-> Straight couples may or may NOT be seated depending on the boyfriend’s vibe. If he’s chopped and annoying, he will be asked to leave. The girl shall stay.

[forgo-me-not]

aromatics get PAYED to eat their favorite foods

[your-neighbourhood-antisocial]

Valentines day is 'round the corner and guess which tag is trending?? Aromantic and I'm here for it

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is cats. Love cats, have cats, want to be a cat? Aro culture

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[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is moss

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[stargazingdustbunny]

I think for Valentine's day, all posts tagged aromantic or asexual or aroace should get an animation that turns the heart button into a purple dragon or garlic bread or something