Holy shit dude, seeing fluff evolve in front of my eyes has been incredible. I’m glad this community is the way that it is too. It’s incredible to see how much we’ve all changed since I first joined here. Even if things got a bit crazy at times it’s just astonishing. I don’t know who or where I would be without all of you guys, including you, firefly. Even in my worst moments you were always there for me, and it felt great to join into a stream and have a bunch of people that I feel comfortable talking to greet me. Life’s been crazy, honestly. Yet I came back because I love this little community we have. In 7th grade, My only irl friends ignored me and picked at my flaws and insecurities. I remember after school being able to join these streams and feeling so relieved and at home. Even now it’s just so comforting. Especially seeing how much I’ve personally grown and matured as a person, and Seeing everyone’s art styles evolve and changes throughout time just makes me want to cry. Time passes by fast, too fast. I’ve lost things, I’ve gained things, yet I can look back at this community in comfort. Even throughout break I wanted to come back, even though I felt like I couldn’t I wanted to come back because you’re an amazing person, you all are. Thank you for everything, firefly. No matter how much gift art I give you, I can never truly express how grateful I am for you and this community. I have never felt more welcome before, anywhere, really. Maybe I’m not the best at socializing or talking to people, but this community has given me a chance to make connections I never had before.
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Honestly, fluff has just gotten better every time I’ve seen you make her. Or anyone make her, I loved reading the story of how she was made. I’ve literally loved becoming closer friends with you and many others. It’s been yeah, a hell of a ride. But I couldn’t have done it without you and so many others, this community has been a joyride for me. Everyone’s welcoming state has helped me become just a better person in general. I first checked out your channel at the beginning. I never commented nor joined lives because I was to busy. But the first live I joined when I was RustStep..jeez. It was awesome. The amount of mutuals I made who have now become close friends of my in less that 2 years is INSANE. I’ve loved being on this journey with you and I sure as h3ll would love to continue this journey as a friend of yours. This channel got me into drawing and more into YouTube in general. And look at How we are now? So far into the years. It’s been some of the best years of my life and I’m so happy I’ve gotten to share it with you and so many others. Yeah, we’ve lost some friends due to other things but they still hold a huge place in my heart. {like bushy for example} I can say this millions of times over but I’ve loved my stay here. It’s like I found a real family, yk? My personal life wasn’t good at all when I first came. A shart ton of stuff happened, but now when I look back? I realized how much this community has helped me become more self loving and confident in who I really am. It’s gotten me to try new art styles and just be myself. I can be myself around you all and know you won’t judge me for who I am. And I can’t thank you and others enough for showing me valuable lessons and love/p. I’m glad I could be there to help in some of the drama. I get it was a lot, for everyone. But we got through it together. And I couldn’t ask to more than to stay friends with you and everyone else. So sorry if this sounded cheesy and stuff, but it’s all true and I’m really glad I could share good experiences with everyone. -next time, BatWing/RustStep {edit: this made me cry typing this. Honest}
1 year ago (edited) | 1
AA happy birthday to ur sona cluster fluff :D I'm so glad 3 years ago one of your amazing drawing ppl in wcue videos popped up on my recommended. Even tho this past year I've never joined most of ur lives i still have happy memories in your lives at only under 1k subs :D u were the one who inspired me to draw more cool silly creatures and u also were fun to watch through covid Sorry abt my yapping but, thank u for entertaining me through these years with your bean streams etc. ❤
1 year ago (edited) | 2
Ahhh this new ref is crazy cute! It's so cool seeing all the refs and how much she has changed over the years. Best of luck in art fight and I cant wait to see what awsome art you might post next! 💜
1 year ago | 0
Oh how times have changed. I remember when it was only Fluff and its cone, she didn’t have a face yet hehe. You’re awesome Fire, keep doin what you’re doin <33
1 year ago | 3
Okay sorry for my short comment but I just wanna say you’ve improved sm over the years and it’s been great to have ya around 🥺
1 year ago | 0
Bamboozled Firefly
Howdy yall!
Yesterday marked Fluff’s 2nd Birthday (I forgot to dig up the first sketches of her yesterday, so I’m a bit late to announce this, whoops). To celebrate, I figured I’d post (almost*) every ref sheet I’ve made for her to date + the sketches that she came from, along with me yammering on about this lil gal and also some of my time on the internet and as an artist.
(*Not including an animation friendly alternative ref sheet since it was literally a simplified version of her first actual ref)
Starting off with some backstory.
When I created her, I was actually in the middle of a drivers ed class. We were on a 10 minute break, so I did as bored artists do and started doodling away. I’d been wanting to design a fox character for a while leading up to that, and while I was thinking up designs I decided to try throwing in a traffic cone for fun. Her name actually came from that, being a bit of a play on words with “Cluster Fuck” since I associated that with traffic. From there her patterns were just my messing around and seeing what I could do.
Later on, I ended up getting bored in my freshman year of high school, and started doodling it some more. Purely for the hell of it I decided to draw out some face designs. One of which was very sharp, angular, and snarl-y, which I stuck with. At about that time I decided to change her species to a more generic canine since I liked that face shape and general build a bit better than a fox’s.
Sometime after that I changed her tail to resemble a shark more since I’d started liking them a lot, and I simplified her tail design while I was at it cuz it was a major pain in the side to draw.
For awhile she stayed like that, but the most recent change (literally last Saturday) I’ve made was to simplify its eyes, edit the order of colors on the nose, adjust her colors to be more vibrant, flattened out her chest again, and I changed its body type.
Despite all the changes throughout the (very minimal amount of) years, Cluster fluff here has been a sona and a mascot for me and it’s been such an incredible experience to watch her age and grow with me. It’s seriously been surreal going through all her old refs and seeing how much we both (it and I) have changed. It’s also given me a bit of whiplash looking back at old art. When going from her first ref (2022) to her most recent one (2024) I also had my first “Wait I managed to draw /this/ and I’m only 17???” moment ever, which was also really bizarre.
Thanks to all of you, I’ve also been able to see her time after time through the creative lenses of those around me, which has been equally astonishing. Every single piece I’ve seen has taken so much time, effort and love and I can’t even begin to describe how incredibly thankful and overwhelming overjoyed I am to have been able to receive gifts from so many people. My time here on the internet hasn’t been all too long yet, but y’all have made it such a rewarding experience and it never fails to make me feel all warm and fuzzy thinking about the little community we’ve all got here. Even with all the ups, downs, and internet drama, yall have made being here an experience I wouldn’t trade for the world. Whenever I’ve been feeling less than 100% these past 3 years that I’ve had this channel, I’ve been able to host/join streams and immediately be surrounded by people I know and who have always always always managed to leave me feeling 1000 times better than however I’ve felt before chatting. Yall have all been incredibly sweet and friendly, and I can’t overstate how glad I am to be able to have the experiences I’ve had with you all.
I’m literally tearing up as I’m typing this, I love yall sm <333 /p
Thank you all for being here to talk with me and watch me grow both as an artist and as a person. It means the world to me that so many people have been interested in the silly little thoughts and ideas I sometimes have and sometimes draw.
Gah, enough gushing though, I don’t have enough tissues for these tears.
Here’s some info on all these pieces:
1st image: The first sketches I ever made!! (7/1/22)
2nd image: First actual reference sheet (7/2/22)
3rd image: Second reference sheet (4/9/23)
4th image: Third reference sheet (8/15/23)
5th image: Its most recent reference sheet (6/29/24)
(Tap the images to expand them!! YouTube crops weird)
This most recent reference sheet was made, as some of you already know, for ArtFight. I’ll be participating for the first time this year with team Stardust! Yall can find me by the username Bamboozled_Firefly.
Good luck to everyone, and watch out cuz I’m out for blood /hj >:]
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