Whisper Chan

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Perfectionist Complex 完全性コンプレックス | English Cover【Whisper】

[spywismindpalace]

5 Easy Steps To Improve Your Art (For Beginners)

I’ve struggled to make my art “look good” for the longest time.

But I just couldn’t match the quality of those artists that I look up to.

However, within the span of 2 years, I leveled up my art from this:

To this:

The question becomes: “How can I improve in such a short amount of time?”

I’ll show you my improvement process in 5 steps right now:

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STEP 1: FIND YOUR FAVORITE MEDIUM

Not everybody works the same. Some people prefer traditional art, others prefer digital. Find what works for you and stick with it

Personally, I’ve been using Clip Studio Paint on the iPad Pro, with the Apple Pencil, and honestly I’m not changing art programs anytime soon.

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STEP 2: COPY, DON’T TRACE! (No, wait, don’t go! Trust me!)

I’m not saying plagiarize. I’m not saying trace. I’m not saying copy other people’s styles exactly down to even where the hair is placed or the hands are posed. I’m saying what LITERALLY everybody in the art tutorial community has said at one point or another: Take inspiration from someone else’s work. Use it as a guide to learn the techniques and create your own style.

AND ABOVE ALL, DO NOT POST ANY TRACED ARTWORK THAT YOU’RE USING AND CLAIM IT AS YOUR OWN. THIS IS JUST FOR PRACTICE!

For example: Say you like how Artist A draws their eyes, and you want to know how it’s done.

Import the art into your art program, go in and break down how they draw the art. 

What the form is like? Where do they place the shine or the shadow or the lashes?

(Anime reference is NOT my own. Apparently the character is from Girls Und Panzer but I do not know the original artist or original poster. Please let me know who the OP is or the link to the original. Thanks!!)

Great! Now do that a hundred times. Get it into your muscle memory, and once you do that, start to add your own little flavors. Maybe put in less shine. Maybe make the shape less round, or more round.

At NO POINT did I say to use the exact copy in your own work. Do not post other people’s work, even if it’s just copying the eyes or the head or hand shapes. What you are doing is learning the basics, learning the drawing techniques, learning how the talented people’s brains work, thus giving you more to work with.

(Not perfect, but certainly better than what I would have done without learning the basics first)

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STEP 3: WATCH ALL THE TUTORIALS!

This ties in with step 2. There are hundreds of hours of video tutorial content on the internet, from step-by-step guides to speedpaints to animations or gifs. The entirety of YouTube is at your disposal, so make the most of it and learn from the people who clearly know what they’re doing.

Slow down speedpaints so that you can see what someone’s process looks like. Go back and rewatch step-by-step tutorials until you can recite the steps by heart. Draw alongside someone’s video so that you can clearly see what they’re trying to teach you.

Learning from videos honestly gave me a bunch of little tips and tricks that I was able to integrate into my own workflow, and made me level up my skills super fast.

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STEP 4: SHARE YOUR PROGRESS ONLINE!

There’s nothing that lights a fire under your creative spirit than to post your content online and seeing the progression of your skills as you go!

There’s nowhere to go except UP in terms of improvement.

Wherever you decide to share your progress, it’s a great practice to go back every now and then and see how far you’ve come since a few years ago, since a few months ago, or even since last week!

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STEP 5: ASK FOR CRITICAL FEEDBACK!

Don’t forget to ask for feedback!

Don’t start spitting fire at those that disagree with your art choices.

Look for the things that people tell you, and learn from the advice.

Make those changes, see how you like it, and you might surprise yourself down the road.

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Let’s review:

- Step 1: Find what type of art you like to create, and go for it!

- Step 2: Copy, Don’t Trace!

- Step 3: Watch All The Tutorials

- Step 4: Share Your Progress Online

- Step 5: Ask for Critical Feedback

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This is by no means the ultimate guide to improving your art. Rather, this is a testament to the fact that improvement does happen, but it just takes longer than you think it will.

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Anything else you’d like to add/discuss? Leave a comment! Share some before/after artwork of yours, let’s see how far you’ve come since you started.

Check out my social media links if you wanna follow along on my art journey, otherwise please share this post. It’s greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

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~ Spywi’s Mind Palace

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[whisper-chan]

SpOwOky OwOky Pumpkin Cover【Whisper】

[otp-imagines-cult]

One-Word Prompts

Jeez we’re sorry about all the big hiatuses that this blog keeps having. We have really busy lives right now. Take this big ass list of one-word prompts as an apology? And use ‘em how you will. Do whatever. Have fun.

Hands

Sleeve

Rescue

Train

Water

Shopping

Street

Window

Cooking

Quiz

Storm

Time

Picture

Blanket

Light

Shade

Pool

Leaves

Sweet

Color

Phone

Race

Stroll

Film

Bottle

Art

Cork

Grasp

Space

Dream

Scare

Mask

Thrice

Adventure

Risk

Security

Hold

Lie

Chill

Plant

Door

Boat

Pet

Embrace

Run

Rest

Break

Check

Song

Night

[zamisriza-the-resurrection]

Reblog the 500,000 dollar written check from Seto Kaiba and money will come your way.

[sadakotetsuwan]

Damn right we do cause we a got Seto Kaiba’s routing and account numbers

[whisper-chan]

Per request of one of my clients, they want me to post one of their requests so they can reblog 🐢💕

[whisper-chan]

Per request of one of my clients, they want me to post one of their requests so they can reblog 🐢💕

[whisper-chan]

Here's some commission work I've done so far. Thank you for those who are supporting me in my time of need!

[whisper-chan]

Heya! I'm in a rough spot financially right now so I'm doing commissions to help myelf out! I can only do chibis right now until I get more prices up and running.

•DM me if you want a commission or if you have questions!

• If not, please reblog and spread the word so I can get more help!

[whisper-chan]

2019 Demo Reel 【Whisper】

[whisper-chan]

My Arcana art journey.

Very old photo is the traditional one, the newest is labeled July 1. The pics below are the pictures drawn after June 22 in that order lmao.

+that one YT video lol.

Very very splendid improvement I think for like 2-3 weeks of playing it lol.

[whisper-chan]

Guess who's in a new fandom, cause she's fandom trashhhhh???? You right. It me.

This video took roughly 2 days to make with virtually no sleep, and honestly? I'm pretty proud of it, though my health status would say otherwise lol. Over 8 hours of editing and 16+ hours drawing and figuring out how to rig my OC lmao. Very fun times. Everything besides the music and background belong to me (yes, I also had to make the gameplay features)!

I also know there's a bunch of typos and grammatical errors, but when you're losing sleep while doing a project, you dont really care that much lmao.

Leave a comment, like, reblog, watch it on YouTube.... but let's not forget!

Please support the official release!

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Genderbent Deku Audition 【Whisper】

[fawnivy]

but why is reposting BAD?

i thought i’d make an faq filled with every excuse in the book about reposting, for those who still don’t understand why it’s bad…or for people who don’t know what to say in retaliation to these! so here we go. 

first of all, an artist doesn’t even NEED to explain themselves. in the same way with someone who says “dude, make sure that soda is diet” or “please don’t tickle me”. they don’t want you to do it. you don’t need to test them by ignoring them. the reason doesn’t matter: it’s the person’s wish with THEIR things. if you had any respect for others, you’d just take it at that. 

BUT for some people, they don’t want to respect others at face value, and want their reason. (which, i might add, is rude.) so let’s get into that: 

but i’m giving you exposure! isn’t that good?

no. 

you’re not giving artists exposure. for people like myself, freelance artists, you’re hurting us. about a year ago, i sent my portfolio off to an indie game. in it, i had a piece of work that had been reposted (that i didn’t even know about). i was told much later that they “looked into it” and saw that my work was posted by someone else, which means now they have no idea who the artist was, and THEREFORE can’t be sure my work was legit. i lost a potential job to a repost. 

doesn’t matter if you say “i didn’t draw this”. sometimes, they don’t even look. they just look to see if it’s on any site other than your own. and that’s terrifying for artists. so don’t endanger our livelihood for instagram likes. 

besides, you’re not even giving exposure if you didn’t credit, cropped out the signature, or somehow made the resolution so low to where you can’t even see the signature. which brings me to…

but i credited you!

some people still don’t want it reposted even with credit. the last answer should show you one of the many reasons why. 

you’re dictating what i can/cannot put on my page! this is MY page!

and it’s MY art you posted. you can’t take something i did and do whatever you want with it. imagine if you took someones drawing, photocopied it, and spread it all around the town without their permission. they’d have every right to be angry, right?

but you posted it online, which means anyone can do anything with it. so if you don’t want it reposted, don’t post it online!

i have to post my art onto my websites to build a fanbase, something crucial to an artist. it shouldn’t be on ME to not post it in the first place, it should be on YOU to not repost it. you’re just echoing victim-blaming arguments. 

you’re basically saying “if you don’t want to be bullied, don’t exist.” which is a terrible thing to teach people, rather than “be nice and respectful towards others.” yes, i know our world isn’t perfect. but that’s no excuse to contribute to vile things. 

well i would be honored if someone reposted my art. and my friend doesn’t mind reposts, so why should you?

good for you! good for them! but did you know there’s more people in the world other than just you and your friend? we have wishes and feelings too, so you don’t get to project your own emotions onto what WE should be feeling as well. i love peaches. some people don’t like them. that doesn’t mean that now they have to eat peaches because i don’t mind them. 

what an artist creates automatically belongs to society, though. 

go steal the mona lisa and tell me how that works out. 

everyone can VIEW it, yes. artists want others to view their work! we just don’t want you to do stuff with it we asked you not to do. 

WELL THEN SPEAKING OF THAT, since i can’t put your work on redbubble and sell it for myself, why do you have an umbrella of the starry night?? huh?? you STOLE van gogh’s work! (yes people have legit said this to me) 

putting my work on items and selling it is totally illegal. van gogh’s work is owned by companies now, who have authorization to print it on things. and i’m just ONE freelance artist who is, you know, still alive and not giving permission to do that. you can’t compare a dead artist from the 1800s to a digital artist in 2017. apples to oranges, my dude.

well i SAID “credit to the artist” so i DID give you credit!

because saying “the artist” really tells people who i am and lets them visit my websites! thank you so much! 

but all sarcasm aside, that doesn’t do anything other than show you were too lazy to find the artist. same thing with “source: the internet” and “who drew this xD” or misspelling my url on purpose or putting the credit under a cut. OR cropping the image to cut off my signature! you didn’t give me credit. 

it wasn’t on the website i wanted it on! you should have more social media.

i’ll have the social media i want to have. not up to me to make more accounts on more things just so you won’t disrespect me. 

but i don’t remember where i got it. besides, i reposted SOOO much work and saved it all a long time ago. how can i find it now?

reverse google image search is so great.

also, if you didn’t know the artist, that’s a HUGE reason not to repost it in the first place!! you didn’t even know if it was okay since you never got to see their position on that!!

take down your video with stolen fan art. take down your entire fan art twitter account. i don’t care “how hard it was to save those images” or “how many views you have now”. you got all that attention from someone else’s hard work. searching for art will never be as hard as making it. if it were that easy, you’d be drawing all the art yourself. 

but i asked the artist and they didn’t say anything! i assumed it was okay. 

yeah, i feel you. it’s the same thing as when you ask your mom if you can borrow some money, she doesn’t answer, so you just steal it from her purse. no answer means the answer you want to hear, right?

wrong. don’t take “unresponsive” as a yes. that’s disgusting. 

well i honestly don’t care. artists are just selfish. i’ll repost their art if i want to, just to show them how much i hate their stance on reposting. and (insert another really edgy statement here from someone who only says things to get a rise out of people since their life is empty) 

one day you’re gonna come across an artist who has no chill and wants to sue, and can actually do it, since some people put their work under HEAVY copyright. and i’m gonna kick back in my chair with a nice capri sun and watch it all happen, since you have that kind of attitude towards people. 

yes, this whole thing seems a bit. well. “salty”, as some would put it. and i have every right to be irritated over this. all these questions are asking “WHY should i respect their wishes? give me a reason” or “but here is my excuse rather than just taking it down”. time after time, artists are villainized just for telling people not to repost. 

like i said, the artist not wanting you to repost it SHOULD be reason enough! we’re so tired of having to fight people just to have respect for our art. we have to deal with tracing constantly, so can you please take reposting off our plates? i know bad things will always happen, but that’s no reason to make it worse by contributing. 

artists are generously putting our art out there for free. if you want to keep seeing our art for free (btw we don’t HAVE to, all the big artists could just up and leave and go to patreon), maybe show us some respect? because we get pretty dejected when we see strangers getting attention from something we did, and it makes us want to remove everything we show you guys. you say “don’t post it then!” but would be mad if all fan art disappeared. 

if you want to keep the art, respect the artist making it. there’s a real person behind that drawing. 

[zeromelatonin]

Parents always complain how ungrateful us kids are, but you know, we’re so grateful for you that it leaves us speechless. We try our best to return the favour, to please you and make you proud. What hurts us the most is that you don’t notice our endeavours for your sake. You relentlessly belittle us, telling us we’re doing it wrong. The fact is, you’re the ones who are ungrateful… but do we say anything? No. I’m proud to have you as my parents, but not once have I felt any acknowledgement of pride from you. I have not once heard “I am proud of you”. Ever.

[dramachines-blog]

The Problems with Having Filipino Parents when they're Angry with You

See, this is one of those things that I know I’m going to be incredibly biased about because, well, we are all aware that we don’t fully understand any other culture as well as we would like to claim we do. Anyway, I just got a random scolding from my mom for not telling her something that really, to me, wasn’t that big of an issue. (Maybe, I’m also being a brat about this, and my opinion will most likely change in the future, but for now, IT REALLY WASN’T THAT BIG OF A DEAL) So here we are, i, writing about what my problems are about having Filipino parents, and you, probably agreeing to most of them (if you are, in fact, Filipino too.)

1. They constantly contradict themselves, specially during an argument.

Now, before you say anything, I have never actually had an argument with my parents. When I say argument, I really just mean a full on 3 hour long scolding. See, when my parents scold me, they do so in a calm manner (at least they start off that way. Towards the middle, it kind of escalates to “I’m shouting but it’s my inside-voice-shouting. That’s when I know the decline is about to come and we’ve reached the half-way point.) And I say they contradict themselves not because of the values and lessons that they’re trying to instill in me contradict, but because my mom/dad, throughout the scenario, would start off by saying, "you should’ve said something; told us we were doing something wrong. You really should’ve mentioned something earlier.” and so on. This would last for about a third of the process and then they’d keep quiet, like they were waiting for a reply from me. But as soon as I breathe in, (here it comes..) they start the yelling part of my scolding. Yes, I do believe that it’s a trigger. and yes, they do start yelling because they instantly assume that what I was about to say was me answering back (aggressively or something along the lines of being disrespectful), and at that point, they tell me, “Don’t you dare say anything.” That’s when I am left confused and well, quiet. 

*Notice that I never used the word conversation? that’s because a conversation requires an actual verbal interaction between people. That never occurs when my parents are reprimanding me.

2. They bring up things that you’ve done wrong way back when you were still inside your momma’s womb.

This is why said scenario takes at least 2 hours long. My parents especially love the part where they can drive a conversation to every fucking possible direction. Mind you, everything that I have done wrong, I have had my 2 hour share of agony, but still in every new situation, they never fail to mention the last 500 things I’ve done wrong. (Including washing the dishes, cleaning up my room and/or texting them whether the Tennis player they were rooting for lost or won the game.) For example, a few minutes ago, my mom was talking to me about how I handle my finances, then all of a sudden she’s listing up the fact that I was up all night last night and that I didn’t wash the dishes this morning. How am I supposed to keep up with this? How is anyone supposed to keep up with anything at this point?

3. They always tell you to grow up and be responsible, but they don’t actually want you to make your own decisions.

For this one, I do admit that most of the time, I do know where my parents are coming from ;and they’re very understanding of what I need and feel regarding being an adult. However, I also cannot deny that they never fail to grind my bones when they tell me I need to grow up, then the next thing I know, they treat me like a child. In all honesty, I just wish that there was manual to all of this, because I feel so lost at this point.

*I feel lost because I have this made up idea in my head of what my life should be like at 20, but right now it’s nothing like it. Also, I have friends younger that me, that have done more with their lives at 18 than I have ever done at 20.

4. They love to repeat themselves.

My parents LOVE to do this. They think that by saying the same thing over and over again throughout the 2 hours, it’s going to have a different affect on me. Also, they don’t just repeat the same exact sentences over and over, my parents are more creative. They like to rearrange the words in the sentence and use it in different contexts. I mean, I pretty much get what they’re saying the first time they say it to me. But they just love to always repeat everything that they’ve said the first 30 mins, every 30 mins.

5. You can never live your mistakes down.

Everything that you’ve done wrong in your life under their roof will always be remembered forever. It’s the truth.

6. You get annoyed with them– angry even. But you will always love and respect them no matter what.

You know it’s true.

[whisper-chan]

Personal question for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

I wanna elaborate on this post so that there's no misunderstanding. This in no way is hateful toward the LGBTQ+ community. I do not hate any one from the community and I fully support the whole thing. I am an ally of the LGBTQ+ community, and as an ally I'm a cisgender heterosexual from a Democratic state.

Now, I know this scenario doesn't apply to the whole community of LGBTQ+ community, but it seems to be a common occurance when I talk to my friends who are part of it. I love my friends and love who they are and I mean no ill intent towards them but sometimes they say things to me that kinda make me uncomfortable. All I'm looking for is some clarity or if thiss kind of behavior is normal....?

What I'm referring to is that some of my friends who are part of the communtiy tend to degrade cisgender heterosexuals in the name of gender equality? They would often say that being straight should be illegal and that I should be put in jail cause "screw breeders" or get really offended when there would be a derogatory term tossed around or what would even seem like a derogatory term....? A recent example of this would be that I had a friend who was gay openly talking about drag and drag queens and how much he loved the idea and concept but got shut down but another friend who's also in the community by telling him that thats a slur towards the LGBTQ+ community, saying its like a type of hate speech and so forth. Ever since then I've been watching what I say because I'm scared that I'll make them mad along with all the hate and insult towards cisgender heterosexuals.

Sometimes they would go out of their way to insult my sexual identity and orientation even though I'm an ally of the community. Listen, I'm all for making the world more gay and the like, but I just feel kinda discourage that I'm being treated like this, when I haven't done anything necessarily wrong...? They would sometimes force their sexuality onto me and my other straight friends and it can become uncomfortable sometimes, when we dont force our orientation or sexuality on them (all my straight friends are also allies so it's kinda like a huge support circle, just to clarify so there's not any awkward tensions within the group).

I'm not asking for people to make a Straight Pride or anything, I just want clarity or a response because I know this doesn't represent the whole community, and the friends who are a part of it and don't give out any insults assured me that my friends who do are probably just joking.

Thanks for listening to my concern! Sorry if I ruined your day in anyway! Have a fun month and celebrate who you are!!!

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