My very first attack was for one of my very cool friends and their fresh new bike! :3

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Excited to paint another scalie

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Obligatory cool buff scalie!

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One of my very close college friends tried out Art Fight for the first time, so of course I had to celebrate that with an attack

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A shitpost that went too far lmao

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Cyberpunk werewolf gal revenge piece for a cool af friend!

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Cyborg lizard art as cool revenge for a sick Argent piece

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I finally found a cool as hell protogen to draw!

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Goofy fun image for my friend Sarc

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Some scalies are hella sleek with their fashion but I think hoodie streetwear will always elude Argent

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Just a long silly guy!! For my wonderful girlfriend :3

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Sometimes you're hit with inspiration like a fucking truck and just have to go all in on something.

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Two silly little guys visit Chicago!!

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Argent may be buff as hell but he is NO MATCH for the irascible heel, Diamondback!!

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Last certainly doesn't mean least! Almost a tradition that Somite and I need to exchange attacks each year >:3

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Real quick: what’s art fight?

Art Fight is an annual event each July hosted on the Art Fight website. You can read the details from the site’s about section if you wish, but the TL;DR is: it’s a month-long competition wherein you score points for your team by drawing fanart of other peoples’ characters, scored based on level of finish (rather than subjective quality).

This “finish, not quality” approach means that Art Fight is a fantastic opportunity to let loose! Try new things…but most importantly, just chill and not obsess over each and every piece you make.

^Guy who can’t take his own advice and predictably falls prey to perfectionism every single year.

And this is not a small event. There were 602,781 registered active participants this year!³

2025 Art Fight Season

This season was Crystals vs. Fossils, and at time of writing the winner hasn’t been declared yet, but I’m confident that my fellow Fossils pulled out the win

As with every year though, I ultimately don’t really care about the competition. The point is the art, and the fun of surprising people with art!

The Art!

I put out 15 pieces this season! My most ever >:3 and I’m proud of each of them!!

Below I’ll be including each of the 15 pieces, plus some thoughts as well as what I feel is strong and weak about each piece.

Also! If this piece is a revenge or has a revenge piece associated with it, I’ll share that in an Accordion :3

“Revenge” in Art Fight refers to an art piece (“attack”) made in response to one someone has received.

1. Person

My first attack was for my cool local friend Jasper, of their fursona, “Person”! I wanted to do something fun and full of action, but I was gripped by the desire to draw them on their brand new bike! Because it’s so cool and so very they/them.

Yes, I certainly decided to draw an entire bicycle for my first effort-agnostic art event drawing…What can I say, an idea is an idea!

Proud of:

1. Perspective
2. Lineart
3. Vibe

Room for improvement:

1. Foreshortening
2. Shading
3. Anthro cat faces/anatomy

Jasper’s Revenge! ⚔️

Jasper’s style is so fucking sick. I only wish I could look even half as cool on a bike Artfight Link

2. Alaska

For my second piece, I wanted to do something painterly and dramatic! So I honed in on Pavlentine’s Alaska, a cool rapier-wielding cobra!

I was a little rushed because although Art Fight just started, I would almost immediately have to set it down to go to Anthrocon in Pittsburgh.
That being said, I think I did a pretty good job! I painted in color mostly on a single layer, and I’m pretty pleased with how the face came out :3

Anyways make sure to check out Pavlentine on Bluesky b/c they have a really cool pixel art style and obviously a very cool cobra OC

Proud of:

1. Paint texture
2. Expression
3. Eye

Room for improvement:

1. Values
2. Metal texturing
3. Scale textures

3. Jeh Jeh Rocket

Jeh Jeh Rocket was on my list from last year, and honestly he’s just a cool, hot, buff scalie character and I liked his vibe.

Tried some new stuff, and generally not fully proud of the result…but I am proud of myself for trying some ambitious Foreshortening and posing, and especially proud of myself for calling it done even though not perfect.

Jeh Jeh Rocket belongs to GatorFruitt!

Proud of:

1. Head/Neck anatomy
2. Hands
3. Simple beach background

Room for improvement:

1. Anatomy confidence
2. Foreshortening dynamicism
3. Shading

4. Pinecone

This might be my most personally-significant piece this year because this is for a good friend I’m finally re-connecting with after almost 10 years. Pinecone has just recently more fully joined the furry fandom, and most impressively, took me up on my suggestion to do art fight!!
I’ve linked his Art Fight above but if you don’t have an account to view them, I need to share a few of his here:

Some of Pinecone’s Art Fight 2025 Attacks + Revenge

My man did 20 attacks in his first ever Art Fight and they’re all tremendous! These 2 might be my overall faves though:

This one is just so stylishly cute. Art Fight link I can’t believe my man drew a taur this well goddamn. Art Fight link

I think it’s both funny and cool that he focused so hard on deer characters since his fursona (and only oc at the moment) is a deer! He told me he just tag-searched for deer until he found one he wanted to try drawing. Very Real.

But of course, he also did me the incredible honor of attacking me back for drawing his deer by drawing Argent!

I was absolutely blown away by this. I still am!! It’s gorgeous Art Fight link

I’m just so delighted and impressed by him. I can’t wait to see what else he does! :3

With that context, this piece kind of speaks for itself. The Rainbow Dash plushie is a nod to our shared Brony past, and the fact that not only is she best pony (according to him 💎) but he actually sewed his own RD plush all those years ago!
It felt like including a nod to that here was a way of sharing enthusiasm for his continued creative drive and growth, especially as he continues to find new ways to express himself :3

Proud of:

1. Pose
2. Plushie design and texture
3. Hands

Room for improvement:

1. Deer anatomy
2. Antlers
3. Emotional expression of face + eyes

5. Persn

Listen.

Playing PEAK with Jasper got us in a silly mood and I came up w/ the idea to draw something just terrible of their Art Sona…? Brand mascot…? Unclear.

Most of the joke is the thumbnail.

This is what anyone on Art Fight sees until they click and see the full image…I think it’s hilarious lmao.

But yeah idk Persn is just a really cool goofy character, and I genuinely love them a lot. And I wanted to be a little evil and use my disgusting muscle furry art powers to turn them into a monster.
Success.

Proud of:

1. Muscle!!!
2. I’m fucking hilarious
3. Wings look pretty good ngl

Room for improvement: N/A

6. Harley Klawz

I think this might be my greatest triumph this season. I am woefully inexperienced drawing:

• Fur
• Werewolves
• Intense emotions, poses

And yet! I feel like I kinda pulled it off! It was so important to me that I made a proper revenge piece against my friend Harley, and I pushed through the “oh god I don’t know how to draw werewolves” dread and put out something I’m really proud of :3

Proud of:

1. Hand pose
2. Textured shading/hatching
3. Simple efficacy of facial expression

Room for improvement:

1. Hair volume, texture
2. Wolf teeth/mouth
3. Clothing

7. Raca Rumrazza

A revenge piece for the undisputed raddest Argent piece I got this year…! I saw this super cool cyborg scalie with zero attacks and knew I had to break that terrible trend

Had a lot of fun with this piece though I did spend way too much time researching revolvers and getting the pose right…worked out in the end though!

Hammond has a ton of cool characters and he popped the fuck off with Art Fight this year. And not just because he attacked me with TWO pieces this year…! Scoundrel!

Proud of:

1. Lizardiness
2. Coloring
3. Revolver

Room for improvement:

1. Pose is a bit stiff
2. BG way too boring
3. Hands feel funky

8. Sammy

I spent a lot of Art Fight this season searching for cool Protogen characters to attack, and honestly really struggled. Fortunately Genziao’s Sammy character managed to break through the fog and offer me something really fun to draw!

I don’t know why but I gravitated towards a fancy headshot this time. And I’m most happy about how great it looks from a reasonable distance. Up close there’s a lot of roughness…but it works! :3

Proud of:

1. Cleanness of final piece
2. Coloring and blending
3. Tasteful background and headshot crop

Room for improvement:

1. Glassiness of Protogen mask
2. Hair color, texture
3. Lineart cleanliness

9. Sarc

I feel a little bad because I was drawing this literally across the table from Sarc, who themselves was finishing an incredible attack against me…It’s goofy, it’s silly, it’s fun, and still I feel like I should’ve done something higher quality for a friend like her.
But! It’s still art, and unlike random folks on Art Fight it’s always socially acceptable to draw for your friends :3

Anyways, not a lot to say about this shitpost piece but I had a lot of fun drawing Sarc as a wretched little creature :3

Proud of:

1. Shitposting style
2. Tasteful Tits
3. Goofy poses

Room for improvement: N/A

10. Donnie

I knew at least once I had to draw a #SnakeSquad pic, so I chose Donnie’s namesake snake, as well as Coatl’s Cy!

Donnie is drawn with such cool, fresh fashion that the idea of “Argent isn’t fashionable” immediately came to mind. Not long after I got the “Cobra hoods would make hoodies tricky” idea and the rest just came outta that.

Very pleased with this one! Good art skill but also quick and cute with a pretty functional background scene to boot :3

Proud of:

1. Background quality + efficacy
2. Expressions/posing
3. Overall art quality

Room for improvement:

1. Pushing goofy poses/expressions further
2. Clothing details to depict stretch and bad-fit
3. More snakes

11. Raspberry

Every year I draw something for my lovely girlfriend because 1. I love her but 2. and most importantly, she has fantastic characters.

Raspberry is one of my absolute favorites. He’s just a silly little guy!! And I wanted to be very silly with him. So I sat at my favorite bike + coffee shop and banged out this funky piece.

I’m really quite pleased with how well I illustrated his curvy ribbony body, especially with keeping the colors accurate!

Proud of:

1. His cute face
2. The ribbon shape, and curvature
3. Those funky lil legs

Room for improvement:

1. Better “kelp forest”
2. Goofier, cuter face…
3. Smoother coloring + shading

12. Ott Hiemnal Valentine

Probably my magnus opum for this year. I spent probably close to 8 hours total on this piece across 2 weeks. Ott’s design is just incredibly fun and cool, and I felt inspired to really push my painting skills.

This piece is actually my first attempt at a value-painting attempt. Everything painted in greyscale until layering color overtop. Very grateful to my friend Orion for offering their assistance. I would not have pushed my values nearly far enough without their input!

Also just grateful for Bean’s insane OC he is SO COOL augh. Inspiring just looking at him!!

Proud of:

1. First values-painting attempt!
2. The hands
3. The final product, esp with framing

Room for improvement:

1. More confident shapes
2. Darker darks!
3. Planning/Posing

13. Noodle & Bean

I found Casual Bean’s delightful OC collection, thanks to my friend Pinecone who drew Noodle earlier. After the painting effort of Ott Hiemnal, I really wanted something goofy and fun!

The Chicago theme kinda fell into place, I think this piece started just as a cute napping piece, but the thought:

…bean…bean…Chicago..Bean…Chicago Bean!!!

hit me like a truck and I had to go with it lol. Just a lot of goofy fun with this one :3

Oh and yes I did figure out how to import the special ligatures fontface for the Chicago Star (just like the rest of my website) as well as the official Big Shoulders typeface just for that title card haha.

Proud of:

1. The 4 scene ideas
2. Simplified Sears Tower
3. Letting loose and not over-engineering

Room for improvement:

1. More confident simplified shapes
2. Goofier expressions and poses
3. Better hotdog drawing skills

14. Diamondback

I just had to draw Diamondback. Ed is a very cool friend and has even cooler characters! And obviously if Argent was gonna wrestle any of them, he’d surely lose.

For this piece it was just so important that I drew Diamondback looking Cool Buff and “Wrestler”. I quickly decided on a challenging “leaning towards the viewer” type of extreme angle…and while I didn’t nail it, I think I did OK.

Also pretty pleased with the expression! I very gratefully had a nice reference from a previous attacker to help me with the face…again, non-scalie furries are a weakness!

Proud of:

1. Overall vibe/energy
2. Hair and ears
3. Shading

Room for improvement:

1. Pushing the pose
2. Better face/head shape
3. Outfit textures/lighting

15. Ruheg

My final piece this year! Finished with 2 hours to spare, I didn’t think I’d have enough time to polish this as much as I did but I guess when I’m drawing scalie characters it’s a lot easier to get comfortable haha.

(Nearly) every year Somite and I exchange blows on Art Fight, and I contributed to it at the eleventh hour here with something just kinda fun and beefy for my own sake haha.

Just had fun rendering big muscles! And the hand turned out real nice…glad I thought to add some fingerprint stylization at the end because it really adds a lot :3

Proud of:

1. Anatomy
2. HShading
3. Snakiness

Room for improvement:

1. Scale textures
2. Less obvious “didn’t have time to draw a 2nd hand” pose
3. Whatever is going on below the waist of a naga

Closing Thoughts

Due to life events but especially development efforts for *this website*, I hadn’t done much drawing in the past year…Once July started creeping up I threw all my chips into an explosive Art Fight revival moment for myself, and I’m pretty pleased with the results!

Art fight means a lot to me. This was my 8th year, and I’m grateful for the site and the folks who work hard to keep the event going. It’s become a kind of time capsule of my own interests and artistic development, and that’s really neat.

But most of all I’m grateful to all my wonderful friends and future-friends who made it another fun year of back-to-back attacks against one another :3

I haven’t drawn since the event ended, but I’m still feeling that drive. I want to draw more! Improve my painting, and be more involved with the furry community in general—through art and otherwise!