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where do you get all the references for your whumpy art? i notice they all have very specific, dynamic poses, and are very well drawn!!

Thank you !!

Most of them are from imagination. Sometimes I'll struggle with my idea I have in mind so I use the Magic Poser website to help me with anatomy and perspective.

The rest is from Pinterest, Google and random whumpy media especially anime and animated shows since they're the ones that will have those exagerated and dynamic poses. But I rarely "copy" them entirely, I only use them as a base and then tweak them to my liking.

What I always keep in mind when drawing is line of action. Use a lot of curves when drawing poses. Especially for whump, you can go wild with them! Have you ever banged your toe so hard you wanted to bend your spine the other way from pain? Same goes for whumpees!

You can see a few more tips I already gave on my blog. They're under #drawing tips

Hope this helps you!

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A is for Anaesthesia - my art and letter page in the Whump ABCs (@thewhumpyprintingpress)

The art I drew for this was of my ocs Kyle Kindall after an incident, and Yuuki Takahashi trying to offer what soothing and comfort he can - in spite of the fact that neither of them like hospitals.

The Whumpy Printing Press has now published the Whump ABCs zine (from 2nd April 2024), if anyone happens to be interested in it!

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My piece for the ABCs of Whump zine @thewhumpyprintingpress My letter was T for Torture ! If you want to acquire this very whumpy zine, there are physical and digital copies still available. Make sure to visit The Whumpy Printing Press Tumblr for more informations

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Yesss !! Hardest part of drawing is indeed sitting that butt down. But once the butt is sitted, drawing comes easily ! There's no time for overthinking since you are already in the process of changing all the ideas into a drawing

I love when a caretaker is in control when saving their whumpee, but once whumpee's state is stable, all of a sudden they just freeze. It's only then they process what just happened and how close they were to losing whumpee.

Drawing process video :

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Psycho-Pass

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Re:draw series

I missed drawing Birb! I have no idea where to go with his story, that's why pictures of him and Caretaker are scarce. Anyway, here's the redraw of one of the first art involving Birb's caretaker. Love me some feral caretaker ❤️

Suggested by @notactuallyatreefrog

Old version :

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Wolf's Rain - Ep 05 & 06

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Re:draw series

I missed drawing Birb! I have no idea where to go with his story, that's why pictures of him and Caretaker are scarce. Anyway, here's the redraw of one of the first art involving Birb's caretaker. Love me some feral caretaker ❤️

Suggested by @notactuallyatreefrog

Old version :

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Hello there! I wanted to test my artsy skills and see if I improved and i thought it'd be cool to redraw a few drawings (prior to 2023). I don't know where to start, so suggestions are very welcome! All my art is under #whump art on my blog so it's easy to see and you can link me a drawing in the comments or send an ask. 👌

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Homegrown, Organic, Certified “Whumper-Free” Whump

I was going to say “cage-free” up there too but then I realized that’s not always the case…

Anyway. Here’s the thing, folks. It could just be the blogs I happen to follow, but I’ve noted a fairly recent trend of people lumping torture fic in with whump fic, or using the terms interchangeably. Specifically, I’ve seen posts implying that there needs to be a “whumper” character hurting a “whumpee” for a fic to be considered whump (and while this isn’t inherently torture, most of how it’s interpreted as prompts and fics tends to be).

I just wanted to set the record straight. There is no need whatsoever for one character to purposefully/personally hurt another character in whump. That’s just limited thinking. Heck, the only thing “required” for a whump fic is a situation in which one character accepts their vulnerability in a situation (and, arguably, overcomes it with or without help), which usually involves an injury or illness. *Old man voice* back in my day, “whumper” was a term exclusively used for a person who enjoyed consuming/creating whump content. 

Can torture be a part of the injury or the cause of the vulnerability? Sure! Is is required? Absolutely not! In fact, I’d argue that torture is only a very small segment of the whump world, and similarly, the presence of torture does not a inherently a whump fic make. (Straight up non-whump torture fic exists, and that’s fine to use/enjoy as it’s own tag/separate category!)

So, what other situations can you use to create whump without using a “whumper” or torture?

Accidental

Falls- tumbling off a cliff and breaking a bone

Burns- saving another character from a fire and ending up with their own injuries

Bites/stings- sticking their hand somewhere to accomplish a mission, ending up envenomated

Poison- accidentally eating something not meant for eating/surviving an assassination attempt

Friendly fire- character ends up accidentally shooting his friend

Lost- hungry, tired, cut off from all communication or resources

Environmental

Storms- whumpee gets hit with flying debris

Floods- whumpee gets swept away from friends and injured

Lightning- whumpee gets struck by lightning

Cold- falling into an icy lake or being stranded in the cold with no way to warm up

Heat- dehydration, heatstroke, hyponatremia from needing to do hard work in the heat

Collapsed building- getting trapped when a building collapses

Low-resource setting- something that would be perfectly treatable is now possibly deadly due to not having the right equipment/medication

Violent

Active shooter- whumpee catches a stray bullet and has to wait for the building to be cleared to get help

Bombing- getting caught up in a blast, losing hearing or vision, catching shrapnel

War- high stress, bullets, bombs, desperate people, getting trapped behind enemy lines without help

Bank hostage situation- busman’s holiday-type situation where the whumpee just happens to end up trapped and needing rescue without being the target- possibly injured, ill, or slated to be killed

Emotional

Fear- specific phobia or just plain situational fear

Another characters death- mourning, grief, disbelief

Mental illness- specifically ones that mess with the ability to regulate emotion

Trauma- acute or PTSD

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Trying to interact with the rest of your fandom as a whumper:

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Ppl: “Glaze and nightshade all your art!!”

Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*

Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.

Like i make my art on my ipad. My MacBook is from 2014. If i tried to download and run nightshade on my decade old macbook and go throufg 10+ years of artworks i might as well just set it on fire.

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tumblr has an AI toggle you should turn on to prevent your work being shared with training models/etc! it's under settings & visibility.

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@whumpers-monthly

Issue no 25:

Blinded/Blindfolded

𝗙𝗘𝗕𝗨𝗪𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 DAY 18: “I can’t see”

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These tortuously beautiful colors are from @whump-side's piece T is for Torture.

I know it's torture to wait, but ABCs of Whump is coming soon! Make sure to preorder your copy today!

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Commission for @fluffyblueblanket123 of their OC Atlas and Damian