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I'm streaming Artfight revenges all day. Come say hi!
(Also, I won't post bulletins every time I do this, so follow my Picarto or Twitter if you want to know about future streams!)
I made a twitter account for Catband stuff! Eventually I'll post the comic pages there, but for now it's a dedicated page where I can ramble about characters and development stuff and other related silly bullshit. Check it out if you're into that kind of thing!
https://twitter.com/catbandnyc
My main/personal twitter is https://twitter.com/hedgemaze if you're also interested in my life, sports teams, or photos of my cat lmao
ok now back to Artfight ʕง•ᴥ•ʔง
https://artfight.net/~hedgemaze
I'll return every attack and friendly fire (even if I have to do some after the month ends, since July will be a busy/exciting month for me). Bring it on.
Now that literature submissions are a thing, I want to write more little drabbles about my characters, since people who aren't me can actually read them now haha. These will be like the ones I posted already, little non-plot or pre-plot scenes that explore characters or relationships a little bit, but I can't decide whom.
Which Catband characters would you guys like to read more about?
Edit: I won't reply individually, but thank you for the comments! I'll definitely prioritize these guys c:
I spent the last few days making appearance tabs for all the Catband characters who didn't have them! I definitely wasn't going to throw 53 character profile updates at you guys individually, but if you want to see, it's everyone in this tag (with the exception of Roger, Ulysses, Gracie, and Buttercup, since their designs are still kinda WIP). Now everyone has canonical eye colors and heights, and some kind of description of what they normally wear, which should help whenever someone needs to draw one of them. Including me lmao
I never even think about eye colors half the time because of my art style-- Rick didn't have an eye color for the last 20 actual years of my life, but now he does (thx Raddishes)! I'll definitely tweak some of the heights and descriptions in the future, but I'm just glad they all at least have something now.
For fun, here's a quick, sortable sheet with everyone's heights, ages, and birthdays.
This is 100% the hubris talking of my arm feeling ok and letting me draw four things today, but REGARDLESS, my art style used to be way more loose and noodly and I miss it, so I want to mess around with style stuff and I don't want to use my own characters for this. Throw a character at me and I'll draw something in this style for you!
Simpler characters will work better for this, but more complex characters are ok too as long as you're fine with me taking artistic liberties to simplify their design. Humans, humanoids, furries, animals, mechs, pretty much anything is fine as long as the character isn't NSFW, gory, or horror in nature.
This is for free/for fun, but if you want to make this a (very casual) art trade, I'd love art of anyone here! Alternately you could buy me a coffee if you like what I drew you, but that's by no means necessary!! I just wanna get my grubby stylization hands on some OCs.
If you want an art trade in my normal styles, I'm always open for those too, and info/examples are here.
The usual disclaimer: This style is fast to draw in, but my shoulder regularly forgets how to be a shoulder, so while I don't expect these to take long, you can always check my trello if you want updates on my queue, whether or not my arm is presently letting me draw, and very vaguely-worded notes to myself about which Catband characters I plan to upload next?????
thx guys 🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜
Edit as of 8am server time Sunday: I have 11 noodles in the queue (on the stove? hm) and 2 maybe-laters. You can still request one, but the later ones are going to take me longer to get to-- I'll do them over time! Thanks for your interest!
Edit June 2: All done with these, thanks for the fun requests!
ALBUM OF FINISHED (COOKED??) NOODLES IS HERE
Just putting my forum games and threads somewhere handy. c:
I try to keep all my forum games bumped, but if you need one that's been inactive for over 7 days bumped, or if I need to do something else about a stuck thread, just ask.
Everyone is always free and welcome to revive or bump my threads, even if they have been inactive for a long time.
If you have an issue with any of my threads, or find something that you need to bring to my attention, please send me a message!
Forum Games:
Meta -
- Ask a question to the user above you!
- Ask the person above OOC about their character!
- Q you wish someone would ask to/about your OC?
- Ask the person below for small help with your OC
- Your favorite design by the person above!
- Your favorite picture of an OC of the person above
- Say something nice about the above person's lit!
- Which of their OCs is the person above most like?
- Character most like one you could have created?
OOC Pick a Character -
Headcanons / Roleplay -
- What kind of drunk is the OC above you?
- Predict the character above's future!
- Guess the childhood dream of the character above!
- The OC Job Fair
- OC Dungeon Crawler
- Ask the character above about their relationship!
- What one item would your OC save from a fire?
Character Discussion:
- Show me your musically talented characters!
- Show me characters who are artists or writers!
- What are your trademark character archetypes?
- Characters more well-liked than you expected?
- Characters based on real people?
- Show me your character playlists!
- Show me your first character uploaded to Toyhouse!
- Show me characters who are a complete disaster!
As of today, every Catband character on TH has a profile with a fully coded layout, a first and last name, a birthday, most of their personal details, at least one associated song, and a bio (with a few exceptions for the mysterious ones or a few newer WIPs)!
It doesn't mean those are set in stone, and the profiles will get updated over time, but at least everyone's finally got the basics! I only flagged a few as updated because I did most of the big updates before TH had update notifs as a feature, but if you're interested and haven't looked at my characters recently, feel free to check out the tag if you like! :o Find out exciting details like Sandy's real name and the song I associate with Vera (I'm... not even sure if I'm joking with that one).
Also, after a lot of thought and some changes, Nash and Otter are canon again and have been promoted out of the "Older Characters" folder purgatory back to "Other Friends/Family." Congrats, boys-- but hmmmmmm, whose brother is Nash...?
And now that that's done, more new characters soon! >:0 New as in from 2003 or so, but you know. New.
Edit: While I'm here, let me casually leave this here again... https://curiouscat.me/hedgemaze
Hey, Toyhouse! Do you like art trades? I like art trades, and I just finished all the ones on my plate, so why draw my own actual OCs when I can draw yours? I'm open, let's gooooo.
I'm mainly offering busts/half-bodies and toons, but if you'd like something else from me, let me know and we can talk about it. My tumblr has the rest of my art if you want to see different examples.
Bust/half-body examples (I consider these the same thing and do whichever suits the drawing, but they're usually half-bodies):
Toon examples (Can be transparent for a pagedoll if you want; let me know what you'd like!):
UPDATE: I can also draw full-bodies now that I feel more confident in how quickly I can do these. Good, recent examples are THIS (no background) and THIS (background), but more unshaded examples of the style are below the cut:
I'm fine drawing any kind of character with the exception of anything gory or NSFW, so lay those sweet, sweet OCs on me!
In return, I'd love art of anyone here (preferably) or here! If you'd like to do a couple (romantic or platonic) art trade, let me know; I'd love that, and I'll link you my couples for you to pick from. c:
CAVEAT: My drawing shoulder is really screwed up, so while these two styles of art are fast for me, some days it acts up and I can't draw, so while I'll be as quick as I can (most likely a day to a week), it is possible I could have to take longer. Don't worry, I'm always good for my half, and I'll let you know if it's going to take me longer than I expected.
If you want to trade, comment with what you'd like to trade and who you'd like me to draw!
Slots aren't limited (unless I get way more interest than I expect).
To do:
- aaawhyme (hb)
- Sevenlole (hb)
- Judas-la-Carotte (hb)
- cosmicconundrum (hb)
- cyantrashcan (hb)
- Taiyaki (couple hb)
- LunaBell (hb)
- cosmicconundrum (hb)
- Sevenlole (hb)