Retro Reimu

Long time no see. Been meaning to get back to this... as usual.

I started drawing something at random, then suddenly found myself channeling the 80s. And I found I was ok with that.

Lame Reimu lineart

Not really that lame, I just wanted to say that sometime.

Couldn't think of anything I could draw in an hour or so, so I just wound up doodling random poses and trying some different line thicknesses and weightings.

Filling in gaps with black looks good for some reason? Using thicker lines on focal points like the eyes and chin looks good too, but it looks pretty weird if all the other lines are uniform, so its not as easy to do as I thought.

I really need to settle on a style for eyes sometime...

STILL NOT DEAD

Angry Reimu and her "gohei", following a vigorous session of removing negative energies.

It's a different style for me. I thought of the gohei-bat a while ago, and last week the image of her expression came to me, so I wound up with this. Its pretty close to what I had in mind from the start - its not often that I manage to express things as I imagined them, so whether that's a sign that I'm improving or its just a fluke, I'm fairly happy with it.

I also used a bunch of colouring techniques I read somewhere - I don't think they came out awesomely here, but they're much faster than what I was using for the same thing before, so it's all good.

Yuyuko!!!!!!

Since yesterday's one was a bit too cute, I needed to do one like this to balance it out. The pose is somewhat influenced by the Card Crusher.

Yuyuko!!!!!

Yes that's 5 exclamation marks!

The thumbnail is a close-up of the Youmu that turned out exceptionally cute, but there is actually a Yuyuko in the full-size image!

And also Ran and Chen. They've been featured in an earlier post.

Yuyuko!!!!

Yuyuko is a ghost, but she hasn't passed on to the afterlife. Probably has something to do with the fact that her body was used to seal away a monster life-force sucking tree.

The blue haired character is supposedly the creator and lord of Makai (aka Hell).

Yuyuko doesn't want to go.

The Sword That Cuts Anything

Another Touhou/MH crossover.

In Monster Hunter, parts of monster can be broken or cut off. But annoyingly, only a few predetermined parts can be damaged, in the interest of maintaining gameplay.

In Touhou, Youmu's blade can apparently cut anything.

No doubt there will be trouble if the two are brought together.

Phantom Backround

Updated with a lazy background! Actually I guess it doesn't look THAAAAT bad...

Supply and Demand

Some items that are rare in Monster Hunter, don't seem to be as rare in Touhou.

In Monster Hunter there's a somewhat rare high-level item called "Phantom Butterfly" that you need at the end of the game for crafting equipment. I'm pretty high-level I've actually never even seen one yet.

But in Touhou, a character will shoot out hundreds of them during one of her attacks!

Yuyuko!!!

Well it's Tou hour again.

And it's Yuyuko again.

This time Youmu is here too. She's Yuyuko's body guard, but unlike Yuyuko, she's only half-dead. I don't know how that works.

I linked this earlier already, but she shows up in this video with Yuyuko:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BZf_ccGqfI

Yuyuko!!

Yuyuko is my favorite Touhou character, so it's only fair that I draw more of her!

Maybe a little suggestive... maybe!

TEWI

Another Touhou.

This time it's Tei, or as it's spelled in Japanese "Tewi" I actually don't know much about her, but I like to think she's a rather mischeivous and maybe a bit mean or something.

Actually she's supposed to have black/dark brown hair.... but it's too late for that now!

Once again, reference is Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7wUNYsM-bI

Yakumochen

Ran! Chen! More Touhou!



These two are pretty cute. Chen especially because of how she is always trying so hard.

Once again, a Youtube is worth a thousand words... so here's two. They're actually two version of the same thing.

Better art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHyjNQorwYk
Subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jip6DJC7qZA

Chiyuri

Another Touhou character.

Apparently this is a really classic one... Her name is Chiyuri, but I don't really know anything else about her though. I based it off another piece of fan art, so it's probably suffering from telephone syndrome and is actually nothing like the original character at all!

Yuyuko!

I'm trying out the software called Paint Tool Sai. Junk usually uses it for his lineart, so it would only be appropriate to take it for a test drive by drawing some Touhou fanart!

I've never actually played any of the games before though... but the music is nice!

This character is "Yuyuko". She's a ghost, but she doesn't let that stop her from being very cute! How exactly is she cute?

I think this will explain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BZf_ccGqfI

Happy New Year

Meh. I've been lazy recently...

Happy New Year, with Alice, along with a winter costume redesign.

I should stop drawing so much Touhou stuff, but its so much easier than learning things I can't do already~ Also its utterly freezing here, and I felt like drawing someone who was warm, and in warm colours.

I dunno if I like this or not... I like the composition, and the colour choices generally, but her face is funky somehow and as usual I don't like the contrast between the light and dark hair, there's too much of a dividing line there. Also it took way too long, but then thats what comes from being lazy so long.

The BG is a cop-out, but it still works fine somehow?

Touhou - Her Sake Not Even Drop

Always wanted to do a "inexplicably flying anime girl" style pic, so... now I have. Yuugi Hoshiguma, sake balancer extraordinaire. I was concentrating mostly on the pose, so I didn't bother fixing the face and gave up on the hands... I'm fairly happy with the colouring and colour choices though. Just wish I'd remembered to do it bigger, since it loses the subtlety at this size (this is pretty close to the original's resolution).

I keep meaning to do more mecha stuff and other series, but Touhou is so much quicker and convenient to draw since you can just fudge the details...

PacYuyuko

Lol procrastination!

Just a random doodle I felt like doing, to get back in the swing of things (yeah right). This kind of lazy shading / lighting isn't bad for the time it takes... I don't like Yuyuko being all blue, since it looks like her hat is just a tight skirt on her head or something, but skin-coloured and hair-coloured both looked weirder. Should have thought about it before I did the lineart...

Technically Yuyuko is a ghost too, but eh, details.

Touhou - Flandre is Love

Just a quickie for WTFR's Flandre Friday. I thought I'd get some perspective practice... its not terrible, but I rushed through it so much that i didn't learn anything from doing it. The skin contrast is a bit off too. I still kinda like it though, but it needs some finishing that I can't be bothered with.

Touhou - Patchouli Moon Attack

Zambot 3 reference. I wanted to do this for a while... it doesn't look that much like it, but hopefully people who know Zambot at all will get it.

Lazy cel colouring... I only had 2 hours to do the whole thing, so it's just a colour layer and a colour dodge layer. I kinda like the high-contrast effect, but I don't think I'd normally do it like this on purpose. The lightning is decent, considering it took about 3 minutes (some squiggles and a cloned blurred layer placed into a group set to "screen" (which for some reason looks totally different to a layer set to "screen")),