Inspired by the month-long art challenge Inktober, I wanted to create my own challenge that allowed more time for artists to come up with their ideas. However, I wanted it to focus on character design specifically.

Make Your Fighter releases two prompts each Friday, acting as two different teams. Artists are encouraged to design their 'fighter', a character designed for combat like in a fighting game. Not only does this provide artists a choice in prompt, it encourages a competitive spirit as the 'team' with the most entries 'wins'.

The challenge is meant for fun, so any artist could join a week if they pleased. I was happy to hear that the weekly format alleviated some artists from the deadline stress, as well as people looking forward to seeing the new teams' release.

Once a week passes, I collect particular designs I enjoyed and created honorable mentions, including the handles of the artists to give them recognition. Then, I tallied the entries and finished the week off with a victory sketch in celebration of the winning team.

The twelve weeks would continue until 2020. The teams for those weeks are shown below. A year later, I would pick up the challenge again for season 2.