Alternate official artist thread

[Anonymous No.]

Do you miss Alphes?
Also what's your favorite non-ZUN's official art style, whether from the fighting games or print works?

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Alphes is a special case because his art went from good to bad for seemingly no reason

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>>44853011
This. I remember when HM was released and everyone got super confused by how the characters looked suddenly. I still have this image from those threads.

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>>44853036
Kek

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>>44852965
>Do you miss Alphes?
Hell no!
>Also what's your favorite non-ZUN's official art style
tokiame

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>>44854233
tokiame yuuma is pure sex
throat goat blowjobhu could suck your soul out

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>>44852965
I never understood the HM Alphes hate, I think the colors got a little wacky but I thought they had charm.
I'm partial to Moe Harukawa's art but I don't think that's an unpopular opinion. Her anatomy and posing is a little off in a lot of cases but most of the time her overall skill level makes up for it. Things tend to be colored on the yellow end but it gives a kind of antique feel that reminds me of old touhou. Also the fact that she did FS and two fighting game arts and then kind of dipped, with no real other info about her. I wish she was still the "face" of non ZUN touhou art instead of Azmaya, who had a lot of growing pains in the past decade and still has questionable anatomy that is now mostly covered up by her bright shiny colors.

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>>44854973
While I agree in most cases, I don't think I can ever agree with moe's tenshi over alphes
Alphes tenshi actually gives me the impression of an eldest daughter and it fits with her constantly quoting ancient literature, while moe's tenshi gives me young brat vibes, which I guess fits the feel of the game she's in, but doesn't fit my impression of tenshi as a character

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>>44855023
Understandable, I like both for the reasons you stated to be honest, especially about Alphes Tenshi who is meant to be taken more seriously as a character I suppose. I just thought small Tenshi was so random and funny when she dropped.

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>>44852965
I really like Mizutaki's art style, his art has some grittiness to it that fits the tone of more mature LE than your usual 2hu manga. There's a lot of cool shot in that manga and his Suika is basically the definitive depiction for me.
While Moe's FS is good and all, her signature large eyes sometimes deflate the mood of the scene imo

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>>44855539
Moe's eyes are too rounded for me.
Y'know, I'd actually be pretty interested if someone like Spacezin was comissioned to do an official style manga, the guy can draw real good even if he decides to do weird shit most of the time.
It's be cool to see how he did with the limitations of not being able to draw CBT all the time.

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>>44855638
i dont get why so many suck him off. the expressions are either too neutral or comically overexaggerated + fucking shark teeth on everything. the only good thing is the lineart. lets also not get into his character redesigns.
i think youre just saying this because you thought it would be a novel idea to have the funni cock crusher man try to stay onmodel for a second.

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>>44855638
I don't think ZUN will commission an artist that have R18 stuff as part of their portfolio, or else Hirakasa would already create fuckton of Three Fairy hentai with how horny he is with them fairies

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>>44855539
>>44856010
We already have the CDS guy, who in a similar vein has designs where you can just smell the coom fetish style being held back for an official work.

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>>44856052
>CDS
Wut?

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>>44857442
Cheating Detective Satori, anon

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>>44857608
I know that, duh
I mean, what kind of coom fetish you got from that Jobbing: the Manga?

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>>44857719
If you look at his pixiv or twitter, the dude exclusively draws depressed lolis, a lot of the time with some sort of weird self harm shit, knives, blood, bandages, etc. It activates some sort of red flag that I can't explain.

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alphes' art lacks a sense of texture to me. Hair, cloth and sometimes even skin all have that same super plasticky look. A bit shocking since ZUN art usually gets this right.

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>>44857772
I don't find it?

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>>44852965
Forbidden Scrollery is the best Touhou has ever looked.

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>>44857772
pretty sure we're not thinking of the same person, dude
akimaki yuu's pre-CDS work was a bunch of racy koakuma pictures and other random character drawings along with like two koishi and satori non-h doujins, and gin_fragrans pre-CDS stuff just had that extreme doll aesthetic going on

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>>44860839
Nah it's the same guy. He has a lot on his pixiv though nothing r-18, but it just gives me the same weird "off" feeling as the Made in Abyss characters or something. Plus a lot of feet.

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>>44861633
Can you link his Pixiv please

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>>44856010
he draws well, you come across as someone literally only familiar with him as a meme yourself

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>>44856020
You mean Touhou r18? Because Hirasaka's drawn porn, just not (publicly available) Touhou porn

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>>44855638
talking about non-official but prominent 2hu fanartists, I would love to see a Touhou manga with hitori as the artist

don't see it happening, but ZUN's a fan of his. His artwork is goregoues when he's not being silly.

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>>44862099

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>>44854233
What is tokiame doing nowadays? his social media has no activity

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>>44855539
My favorite thing about mizutaki's art style is their attention to detail towards the character's proportions

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>>44862603
no clue, I wonder the same thing

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it's just kinda sad that he and Moe just disappeared from the internet the moment they failed at something(Moe when her og manga got axed)

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>>44863115
>(Moe when her og manga got axed)
This is the first I've heard of that, what happened?

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>>44853036
>HM
Unzan looked pretty good.

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>>44863126
she worked on a manga after FS was finished, but it only lasted 3 chapters before it got axed. and she disappeared since then

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>>44863181
What is Mamizou doing there

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>>44853011
Drugs

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>>44863181
Where is she........I loved her art.......

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>>44870164
She'll return as a gacha artist

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>>44871512
Many such cases

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>>44871512
Kantai Collection specifically

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>>44875966
Kancolle is dead, every sellouts go to AL now

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>>44852965
Alphes is a special case because his art went from good to bad for seemingly no reason

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I like Moe's art (in FS more so than the games) and both of the CDS artists for different reasons so it's hard to pick a favourite, but I definitely have a big soft spot for Makoto Hirasaka's thick eyebrow Cirno.

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why does ZUN not know how to draw after decades of drawing

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>>44893214
I would argue that ZUN has a generally good sense of drafting a character even if they are a little potato, it's just the coloring that gets a little wonky. He's also balancing everything else in the game creating process, music clearly being the best and the part he cares about most (or did). He can't be a god at everything especially without formal training.

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>>44893214
He churns out memorable character designs everyone loves, that’s good enough

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>>44862826
>>44862603
hopefully he doesnt do what kazuma kaneko did and come back to do art for a NFT game

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>>44900965
What game?

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>>44901120

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>>44901140
>JobTribes
What a name
Also Kaneko why?