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kumamedia · 2 months

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Amazing work <3 <3 <3 And it's been an honor to be your opponent! Definitely looking forward to this year's fight, too~

Filling out these @artfight journey things, because I might as well!

My first attack, Protocol Denied, was way back in 2019, as part of Team Nightmare. It's honestly not bad, though I think back then I used my phone camera to take pics of my attacks.

Then my latest, Froggy Gaming, was this past year, as Team Vampires (if i had 2 nickels for every time I played for an artfight team represented by a bat, yadda yadda). It was an acquaintance's sona, shown here on a DS because she was playing through Pokemon BW at the time. I think it came out really cute!

These next two slots are shared by the same piece, Mightyena Meetup from 2021, as Team Cyberpunk. I distinctly recall this massive pixel art piece taking two entire weeks to make, including 11 whole characters across a whole bar scene for a whopping total of 500.75 points. Still was far from enough to win us the year, but I had fun, and that's all that really matters in the end.

As for my favorite... Well, tough question, but I'm going with Good Day for a Swell Battle, my other attack from 2023 (yes, I only did two that year, was a busy month for me). It's the latest in a series of back-and-forth attacks between myself and the lovely @kumamedia, who I actually started speaking with outside of Artfight after last year! It's the first time I've actually started a friendship like so, and that's honestly a big part of why I like this and all the other pieces we've exchanged.

Excited to participate again this year!

#art fight journey #artfight #alan900-art #ohh i kinda wanna make one of these too

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kumamedia · 5 months

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Welp. The virus has finally claimed me.

I’ve heard and seen so many varying kinds of cases over the years, from people who had no symptoms whatsoever to people who told me they felt like they were dying. Feels really weird to have it myself.

I’m okay, I think. It hit me like a truck at the start, but things are getting better. Just been pretty out of it.

Brb for a bit longer, imma sleep this off.

#author kuma #update

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kumamedia · 6 months

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Hello magical girl community- I haven't forgotten you ahah.

Was kinda burnt out for a bit but I've returned with another Elemental. Carbon joins the party! She's very rough-draft but I'm thinking artsy kiddo that's drawing all the time- looks all delicate and cute but is just a little odd.

Purest forms of carbon include diamonds and charcoal apparently.

#magical girl oc #magical girl #elemental magical girls #elemental carbon #I think her name is ciara #she might be heckin op ack #carbon is everywhere in multiple states of matter

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kumamedia · 6 months

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Guys, I did it. I made digital art. Please be proud of me ahaha-

Been struggling with Corie, my Beautifly, for way too long now. He plays some big roles in my Nuzlocke story, so I'm holding him to pretty high standards and overthinking his character and design way too much >.>

For now, he's fine. I need him out of my head so I can get some more of this lore figured out lol

#pokemon gijinka #pokemon nuzlocke #beautifly gijinka #beautifly #pokemon emerald nuzlocke #what goes around #corie

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kumamedia · 6 months

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Brooo that's so cool!! Love that layout~ 👏👏👏 Wage can judge you while you work now ahah

New Desktop Layout - with art by @kumamedia that i rearranged the position of to fit my screen better, i hope they don't mind.. :')

i really love rainmeter so much, having my music player ontop of all programs at all times is so handy, especially when i'm drawing.

#idk why it took so long to tell me you tagged me <.< thanks Tumblr #yes yes tho all good 👍👍#love it #spaceraddish #also I guess that's one way to figure out I didn't sign the art bahahaha- oh well

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kumamedia · 7 months

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Part 2? of putting characters in clothing saved to their Pinterest board-- these kinda gave me Jei vibes

Last part: Zaria

#pokemon gijinka #electrode gijinka #pokemon oc #what goes around #jei #getting my hands on some ohuhu markers soon #eyes emoji

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kumamedia · 7 months

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Team Horizon, founded as a hope for the future by a girl stuck in the past.

... Digital art continues being painful for me for some reason so I'm trying stuff using my Treecko gijinka, Sybil, as a test subject. Might refine this later idk

#pokemon gijinka #treecko gijinka #pokemon nuzlocke #pokemon emerald nuzlocke #what goes around #sybil

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kumamedia · 7 months

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(Poochyena) Zaria in some outfits I saved to her Pinterest board~

#pokemon gijinka #pokemon nuzlocke #pokemon emerald nuzlocke #poochyena gijinka #mightyena gijinka #what goes around #zaria #poochyena #mightyena

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kumamedia · 7 months

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(Excuse me??? Did I not reblog this??????)

And what a great first Art Fight! I’m honored you drew Beacon, I still love this so much aaa 💛

Excited to see how your art style develops~ Hope we can fight again next year!!

Artfight — Team Vampires 2023

Part 1: Tumblr Attacks!

Into The Dark with Beacon by @kumamedia!

Love Letter featuring Showstopper by @shiocreator!

Well, I like Monty with.. well.. Monty by @someguyiguess23!

To be fair, I had a lot of fun with this year's Artfight, it being my first and all, despite the drama related to the website.

I wish to work on my art further and make a comeback on y'all who participate next year!!

For now, I'm gonna see what I can do until then..

#art fight #art fight 2023 #artfight #team vampires #beacon #reblog

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kumamedia · 7 months

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Art Fight 2023 - Team Werewolves!

Mass Attack!

I finally made a mass attack this year! A Pokémon Gijinka themed attack featuring 17 characters:

Alice (Absol) and Edna (Mightyena) alan900900900 / @alan900900900

Zaria (Mightyena) mine~!

Boo (Phantump) kipkazoo / @kipkazoo

Miles Yang (Rotom) Bears

Sydney (Oricorio, Pom-Pom Style) naomp4

Melo/Melo-chan (Meloetta) Cyan161

Chansey gijinka Bunnyeve / @bunbunnyeve

Tofu, Dango (Togekiss), and Ottilie (Togetic) macaronslurpee

Omlett (Togepi) Vincentism / @vincentism

Quilly (Typhlosion) StarlitMoth / @starlitmothart

Bismuth (Tinkaton) BlumeDoom

Justice (Buneary) Revali / @nidokings

Theodore (Hypno), Jubilee (Jynx) PrincessRee / @princessreeree64

#art fight 2023 #art fight mass attack #pokemon gijinka #pokemon center #team werewolves #mass attack #am i doing this again next year?#absolutely #would've added like 10 more characters and 50 more details if I had the time lol

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kumamedia · 8 months

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Art Fight 2023 - Team Werewolves!

Part 3!

Delightful Dragonfly (for mightyno19 / @mightyno19) Pretty dragonfly lady Zephyr and her wisp Zipper!

Birds of a Feather (for Alphabee / @alphabee) Stilts is visiting some bird friends in town~

Garden Guardian (for PoppyTheDolly / @poppy-the-dolly) Rose Rabbit Athena dutifully guards her garden.

(Part 1 here!) (Part 2 here!)

#art fight #art fight 2023 #team werewolves #team werewolf #art fight attack

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kumamedia · 8 months

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Hey, Kuma! I hope your day's going well. I know we never met before, but I wanna say your art is awesome! I love the style you have going on and your toon oc is adorable!

I thought to ask out of curiosity, are there any AUs you're into? If so, what would you recommend?

Oh goodness, hi there! Thank you, Anon! This made my day <3 Alternate universes to existing stories? I've been dragged through a bunch of new fandoms lately so I haven't thought of many recently-- but:

I was a part of a Cuphead x Fallout / toon apocalypse kind of a thing with Beacon Bright. Our community had so many plans for comics and whatnot but there was too much going on irl for a lot of people and we've had to set it aside. It's still a fun concept I occasionally revisit in my head.

I think Royalty AUs are fun? Make a bunch of characters royalty and nobility--what kind of kingdoms would they run? How would they do? Which other characters would fit certain jobs around a palace? There's also all the potential shipping drama under royal laws 👀

High School AU is an oldie but- can be goodie with the right characters? I've been dragged into a lot of those, haha. Imagining adult characters in their high school years is fun— what were they like before their time in their main story? Or young children characters in high school— how did they grow over the years, how different would they become?

I once had a dream about some Disneyland kinda open outdoor Toon Town kinda theme park except it was Five Nights at Freddy's characters and I've been looking for an excuse to share this? It was actually really wholesome with (Glamrock) Freddy giving kids tours around the park and introducing them to friends and (and family-? cousins?) in their own kinda areas-- does this even count as an AU? I'm counting it. >.>

Imagining my magical girls in other magical girl series-es— or non-magical-girl characters as magical girl characters is kinda fun— I’ve seen a few YouTubers do that. Like- what if my Pokémon gijinkas were thrown into something like Tokyo Mew Mew or Winx Club or whatevertheheck else- what would they be like- how would their powers and abilities translate over?

Honestly? AUs are really fun to see how various characters develop under different circumstances. Taking a character whose story is already planned out- what key moments would translate over to a completely different environment or time period, if they would at all? Would the characters still have the same personalities? Have the same morals? Really brushes up story building and character development skills! I’m here for it.

I hope that actually answers your questions though ahahahah— thank you for the ask <3 I'd love to hear what you guys think of as well!

#author kuma #ask #anon ask #how the heck do I tag these hold on ahah #story development #kuma learns story development

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kumamedia · 8 months

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Few, but good! That scene of Jei and Alice about to spar still makes me smile ahaha~ I love them all- I love seeing them all hanging out We gotta fight again next year! >:)

All two of my attacks from this year's Artfight, Vampires vs Werewolves! This year was a bit rough, I went on holiday to Spain and had like no time at all for over half the season x_x

Anyways, as for the attacks:

Jei, Zaria and Sybil by the always lovely @kumamedia (also featuring my own Pokemon gijinkas; Alice, Banzai, and Ivy)

Frogsona by woahimpala (Artfight handle, not on Tumblr)

I do wish I had been able to do more this time around, but ah well, such is life. Maybe next time!

#alan900-art #art fight #art fight 2023 #pokemon gijinka #sybil #jei #zaria #what goes around #reblog #still a few more of these I gotta reblog waah

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kumamedia · 8 months

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The last couple weeks have been pretty rough so can i just share a photo of my kitty Minka