Welcome back LF3897! 

Good to see an old member return from the depths!

Hey Rainbow 

Yeah i stopped it for a couple reasons. The first is that there was almost no participation throughout all of 2022, with only a few artists such as Jewels and SRFG keeping it going.

This was also at a time when I was pulling 12 hours a day, 6 days a week away from my house either at school or doing extracurricular stuff, so I didn't feel like it was currently worth the effort with maybe only 1 submission per prompt.

If there's enough interest in it again, it's something that I can possibly bring back. It also doesn't have to be me to do it again if someone else feels like taking on the job.

Feels like there’s a bit of a gap in the LBT generation right now. I wonder if the next wave might actually be the people who’ve been growing up with the series on YouTube Kids…

That's an interesting point, and very well could be possible. It's either that or parents that watched it and now showing their kids. One of my coworkers at a job I worked at last year mentioned that he watched the first 2 LBT movies with his son, though this was for the first time for him as well. He made note of the drop in quality between the two and the amusing fact that there's 14 of them. 

Happy starday Iris! Hope you have a fantastic day! 

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! I got up to a whole lot of nothing as it was one of my long school days 

Yeah I can see how they could maybe feel like a chore. It was never recommended to participate in them for the sake of participating, and moreso a way to help your creativity and expanding your drawing skills by drawing something you might not have thought of drawing before.

Thanks to you as well for all of your entries for both you Jewel and SRFG! Both of you kept it alive in this last final year.

Maybe one day it can make a return and LBT fanart can retake it's rightful spot as best place on the GoF! 

Hey thanks a lot Jewel! I'll take a look at it right away. Sorry for my delay, was enjoying spending time with my family over the holidays.

Speaking about proceeding into the new year, I think we may need to unfortunately stop with the bimonthly fanart prompts. A lot of the previous fanartists have caught up being busy with life, myself included. I've thought about whether I'd participate in prompts in the future and I can't really see myself finding the time to do so within the next couple years and activity in both the fanart section and the GoF in general have been on the low end currently.

Part of my drive to be so active with fanart in the past was to have a second chance at being engaged within the community when I rejoined back in 2017, and I am happy with both the progress I made as an artist during that time as well as the possible influence I had in keeping the fanart section alive and active. I'm not the same person as I once was back then where I felt like I could not reach out and make friends with people both on the forum and in real life. Now after making several friends on the GoF and finding seemingly finding a place within my educational journey, I feel a lot less of a desire to put in the effort, especially with the increased demands of my engineering degree. While I won't say that I'll put down drawing and LBT fanart for good (someone still needs to show the world how great Rhett is  ), but I wouldn't expect anything at the levels that I did in the past.

I would like to end things off with thanking everyone that supported me during the 4 to 5 years that I participated in the fanart side of things, as you guys really did make it a joy to participate in!

Oh hey thanks a lot Jewel! Yeah since I don't keep up with it as much as I used to my topic falls off a bit on the main page and can be harder to find. Glad you liked them though 

As for the Ruby x Strut, I just figured I would go with the craziest pairing I could come up with haha.

Looks like I've missed a decent amount of art from you. I agree with Sneak with possibly just making a new OC for the new design, but maybe because I like the original design you had for Cricket!

A really neat concept for the prompt! That indeed was one of the more interesting episodes and I liked the exchange between Chomper and Thud throughout. Seems like there's honor among sharpteeth in the mysterious beyond after all. Well done!

Hello and welcome to the GoF Freckles! 

Another Yellowbelly OC? Very nice! I thought I was the only one (even if the whole inception of it was a complete joke haha) 

Have you ever been abroad?

I have. I went to Cuba back in 2008 as part of a high school music trip as I played in the school orchestra. Basically went around to different music schools and played music and then listened to them play music (they totally kicked our asses haha). In 2012 I went to Mexico with my family, and in 2017 my brothers and I drove down to Idaho for the solar eclipse.

If you had a chance to get one LBT fursuit of any LBT character, who would it be?

Hmmm, I think I would choose.....Loofah 

Have you ever spent an entire day at the West Edmonton Mall?

Never an entire day. The WEM is a tourist trap and when you live in Edmonton you try and find any way to avoid it at all costs. The theater in the mall used to have an animatronic dragon that breathed fire that I luckily got to witness as a kid, though they unfortunately took it down. Here's a video of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOpSchnybWE