ZUN is a good artist, isn't he?

>>49439801 (OP)
>uses ai to draw
lol
lmao even

>>49439801 (OP)
>ZUN is a good artist
was*

>>49439814
>>49439820
>using ai ONCE for your backgrounds and UI is enough to invalidate decades of your work as an artist
why are you xitter troons like this

>>49439869
Add to that forgetting that ZUN is and always has been primarily a musician. Apparently that's no longer valid as a form of art.

>>49439801 (OP)
I like 2hus without their hats.

>>49439869
>why are you xitter troons like this
Because they don't play the games, they're just interested in the drama. They'll forget about this whole thing the moment the next twitter drama starts.

>>49439915
I like 2hus without shoes

>>49439944
Isn't that, like, half of them?

>>49439915
>without their hats.
Your a sick and twisted man

>>49439915
Someone post exploding Kaguya

>>49439869
I wasn't talking about the AI problem, but about his traditional drawings. His new art is just fucking ugly.

I think he should go back to drawing and painting them manually and scanning them because he sucks at digital coloring.

>>49439946
Cirno has special feet tho

My favorite ZUNart was DDC and TD if we include digital art

Previous games had worse art but they had SOUL. Now it's just sameface over and over again

>>49439801 (OP)
That Youmu is gorgeous. His new art is lacking in soul.

>>49439869
>using ai ONCE for your backgrounds and UI is enough to invalidate decades of your work as an artist
Reminds me of this old joke:

See that wall?" said the bitter Scotsman at the pub...
I built that wall, all the way from here to Glenmore, but do they call me "Angus the wall-builder? Nooo!"
"And see the church spire? Built that too. Do they call me "Angus the steeple-builder"? Noo!"
"And that terrible night when the orphanage burned down,I saved all the wee bairns from the flames: "Angus the orphan-saver"? Noo!"
"But..." He paused to sip his beer... "You fuck just one goat..."

>>49439869
HRT fried their brains.

>>49440176
Yeah. She's got cold feet, haha!

>>49439915
marisa is so adorable in PCB. i was just looking at her portraits from the comiket trial the other day. it's a shame these went unused

Marisa drawn by ZUN during the conference
Beautiful eyes

>>49440402
her feet is so special she even won the championship!
everyone in this thread should watch the livestream where ZUN played gartic phone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3l5gbn_40

>>49441342
>Am I kawaii, uguu

>>49441342
Why does she look mentally retarded?

>>49441342
Marisa got a job in Hollywood!

>>49441391
Marisa is cute but she isnt the brightest

>>49440372
ZUN the goat-fucker...

>>49441353
fun video thanks

>>49439820
His lineart and shading were much better back then, unreal how soulless they've become

>>49440403
I bet she doesn't even have 10 fingers

>>49445203
i want to draw like him someday

i remember i have seen some japanese tutorials on how to draw like ZUN, i'll try to find it

>>49447065
https://msb-net.com/topics/illustration/

https://note.com/th_seaweed/n/n821d21542343

here you go

unfortunately there has been some time since their last updates

>>49446910
you don't get it. it's supposed to look like a saint crucified on the cross.

>>49447690
Looks more like humanity adopted the decimal system.

>>49440372
Reminds me of tub shitter
https://youtube.com/shorts/F_ogzbodL2I?si=mZD42_BBb7KgWZV7

One of my favorite of his is Reimu’s portrait in DDC

i really like the IN portraits, especially youmu, yuyuko, and reisen. was i the only one who thought tewi looked weird?

>>49451379
I thought Marisa and Sakuya looked weird.

>>49440078
oh yeah my bad then, because i actually totally agree with that
for all the weird anatomy some of his older tradionally drawn character artworks had, they all had infinitely more soul than pretty much anything he made after going over to digital

>>49447065
Just do it and don't give up, ZUN just did it and no matter how goofy it looked we're here today enjoying it.

>>49439869
its just cheap bait, and this is the real reason I'm mad at ZUN for using AI. I have no problem with it myself but it's just inviting an endless cycle of this bullshit

>>49451746
Thank you very much for the support
I may appear in the OC thread someday if i'm confident enough

>>49441353
DO NOT SKIP TO 53:26
YOU WILL SHIT

>>49451476
I think it's got something to do with how he did shading and highlights.
The newer art feels a lot more flat, and is missing some details in texture that his physical art has.
I say has because I remember seeing some Reimus he did on wood for a sign at either Comiket or Reitaisai some time ago, and it seemed pretty comparible to his IN work and the like.

>>49451476
I think it's just a lack of knowledge about how to use digital art tools to their full extent. He's still got it with traditional, pic related was made in 2022 for some festival and looks pretty good even though it's in the new style

His new style is admittedly much more simplistic; it works better with traditional art. I actually suspect that the mof nitori pictured is actually made with digital art tools of some kind that emulates watercolor/pencils

>>49464833
>I actually suspect that the mof nitori pictured is actually made with digital art tools of some kind that emulates watercolor/pencils
to add on to your post, i think that there's some digital textures and overlays he used to spam that he now chooses to omit. it's especially apparent on portraits in th8, see pic rel

>>49464867
That's true, but somehow even the colors seem more drab and lifeless

My favorite recent ZUN drawings is when he draws marisa in general
I prefer reimu but he always draw her with beautiful faces

I've always considered Mokou as good. Not "soulful" or good for ZUN's standard, but simply good. Different from mainstream styles, but the linework is good, the pose works and I find coloring very appealing.

Nothing will beat this portrait I'm afraid

Pure sex

>>49456688
Great art. Really feels like what ZUN would be if he took the time to master digital art

>>49464867
He should’ve kept them, they had more sovl than the current color schema
Weird how he had a hangup over a fake watercolor brush but not over using AI for some backgrounds (not that I disagree with him about the AI thing)

>>49447065
This might help.

>>49464833
He really should go back to traditional, it fits his style way better. Wasn’t that what 20 was all about, anyway? Going back to the beginnings?

Huh, I just noticed that ZUN actually drew Marisa 's teeth in some of her th20 expressions. He usually doesn't in his modern style.
>>49480219
Even when he started 2hu his traditional looked nice and cute.
>>49464867
Looks like some noise effect, in Alice's case it doesn't look that good but with Nitori it blends in very nicelly imo.

This Sanae was pretty lewd

>>49480985
i think it looks fine on alice, adds some nice texture and a very murky yet dreamy feeling that was prevalent in windows gen 1. i prefer it to the extreme flatness of his current art.
th8 was my first game so i may just be biased, though.
>>49481015
kanako's gotta tell her to stop rolling her skirt up...

>>49481058
Don't worry, skirt length doesn't matter when shrine maidens are naturally sexy
Recently, he's been drawing Reimu with a really defined body outline.

ZUN art are religious icons.
Religious icons are drawn in a way not to provoke the carnal desire, and only to reflect a higher reality.
ZUN really is the high priest.

>>49483713
That explains why they’re so formulaic

>>49483713
>>49483813
After thinking about it more, you might be on to something anon

>>49483868
Adding to this: Icons are formulaic and are deliberately in an “unreal” style in order to evoke a sense of the divine. A transformed representation of the world, so to speak

>>49481058
>i think it looks fine on alice
Poor wording on my side, should have used "as good as". It imo looks pretty, but it looks better on the rest of the IN cast and on Nitori and Suwako (who might have the effect to look water-like).
>i prefer it to the extreme flatness of his current art.
Same, doubt anyone disagrees on that, Touhou has a lot of patterns here and there that add a bit of messiness and uniqueness.
>th8 was my first game so i may just be biased, though.
idk th8 and th9 might be the sweetspot of uniqueness and cleanness, since 6-7 feel to weird to most people and 10 and beyond is were people consider he lost his touch( some people still love 10 tho)

Last time that noise texture was used seems to be with Tojiko now that I checked, which is fitting since those textures are used quite a lot for clouds and mist. Her texture is way darker but it makes sense because it probably represents thunderclouds.

>>49483868
I mean the portraits and patterns had a similar feeling to medieval/older art, imo.
But in icons you usually see serene or stoic expressions though, so there it seems to differ. You do need varied expressions for a game tho.
Funny observation thought.

>>49485272
>on Nitori and Suwako (who might have the effect to look water-like
i've never noticed that they're the only ones with it in 10. it's definitely not nearly as flattering on tojiko, that's a much rougher looking portrait than i remember.

on an unrelated note, i've always liked shizuha's portrait, i think it's one of the more obvious ones to have been drawn and lined on paper and then scanned in.
i almost want to say she looks like she was colored traditionally too, with alcohol-based markers or something, based on some of the smudging on her skirt and socks.

>>49485473
>it's definitely not nearly as flattering on tojiko, that's a much rougher looking portrait than i remember.
Yeah, TD is where stuff went full flat, her dress would looks fine if the ofuda didn't look that flat. But of course everything else looks lifeless (which I could exuse for maybe the 3 dead characters of TD but not the rest)
>i almost want to say she looks like she was colored traditionally too, with alcohol-based markers or something, based on some of the smudging on her skirt and socks.
I assume they where drawn on paper, but also edited digitally. Not sure if he painted them physically or if he really put some effort into making them look like non digital, maybe he mixed a bit of both because indeed Shizuna looks painted traditionally. But idk, maybe I need to learn how to paint in old ZUN style myself since it doesn't seem like he will anytime soon.

>>49491166
I’ll have to learn his style too. At first I thought it was disgusting, but it really grows on you. It really is endearing

>>49485473
Cute!

>>49482140
Look how beautiful reimu is here

>>49441353
Now I remember that Haitokukan is dead

>>49480146
>hangup
it's not really a hangup at all he changed it for efficiency
At first, he used to actually draw the character sprites and art on paper, scan it, then digitally colour it in. There's one interview I remember where you can see on his desk one of the uncoloured ending slides to TH8
Then starting from Touhou 13 he switched over to digital, cuts out the whole scanning process and makes it much easier
Which actually brings it back to the AI background thing, before he used to buy stock photo packs, browse them for some neat ones, slam them through 8 photoshop filters and composite them together. Now he's using AI to save time browsing so he can get to slamming the images through 8 photoshop filters sooner

Ironically there was a very similar outrage to him switching over to digital as there was for him using AI in the backgrounds of TH20

>>49485272
he should start bringing back these noise textures, they really help combat the flatness.
>>49485473
he can't have used alcohol-based markers he'd drink them before he gets the chance to use em!
>>49491166
I misread and thought you were saying ZUN put in the effort to make Shizuha look non-digital / all traditional because she's technically a painter so he wanted to put in the extra effort to reflect that

>>49495883
>he can't have used alcohol-based markers he'd drink them before he gets the chance to use em!
kek

Another thing to note, these days the art gives off more of a doll impression than actually looking like people, especially due to the lack of shading. Here comes my crackpot theory:
The disk title "Dolls in Pseudo-Paradise" is a very fitting description of what Gensokyo is. Alice as a doll maker is basically ZUN’s stand-in and divine avatar (“Team Shanghai Alice”) and Gensokyo itself becomes ZUN’s grand dollhouse. Every character is merely a puppet animated by his design; never acting on their own will, but performing as ZUN’s marionettes in an idyllic yet hollow paradise.

Speaking of beer, the art ZUN made for the Akiba Beer Fair needs mentioning. Apparently the girl’s name is “Beerko”-chan

>>49497810
more Beerko posting

>>49497831

>>49497810
>>49497831
>>49497849
Wasn't there some Korean beerko equivalent done by ZUN?

>>49502488
Yep. Makgeolli geolli

>>49441353
>Haitokukan

this is a good thread. i'm not letting it die.
traditional aya

traditional ikusan

traditional tenko with comically tiny hat

traditional "moonbitches" watatsuki

>>49476620
The pose works? She is literally just standing there. He put her hands in her pockets because he was too drunk to draw hands.

>>49509977
please don't call these ladies b*tches

>>49510112
moonladies

>>49510121
thanks anon-san

>>49480985
Looking back at the pc98 covers you see how ZUN first just draws characters (and the orb), then a bit of a pattern for LLS and in MS he starts his habit of drawing a bunch of items here and there of his early 2000 era like seen here >>49497800

>>49507898
Here's another Aya, from GPT radio show.

Drinking time

>>49522515
Did someone say drinking?

UFO has one of my favorite reimu sprites, I wish ZUN did this kinda artstyle a bit more

>>49522638
I did!

ZUN self portrait

Not actually by ZUN but scarily close

>>49439801 (OP)
he used to be until touhou 12, arguably touhou 10

>>49439944
I miss the silly socks tho

>>49503282
wow!

>>49503282
Does anyone have her original ZUN drawing?

>>49530702
>copying the master

>>49509977
They're very cute! I bet they have nice married lifes!

>>49544671
If the master dies one day, his word still needs to be spread....

>>49539314
I can’t find it anon. Perhaps he never drew one and the fans made up the character because he said he loved the drink in an interview once or something

>>49441353
'People' that don't quite qualify as such will diss ZUN for selling out to gacha or $$$Beat.MARIO$$$, then say nothing about him collabing with someone that routinely did possession/rape doujins of the characters, AKA >>49493709 >>49503464
(good fucking riddance, stay well dead)

>>49556047
There's nothing wrong with raping 2hus.

I think ZUN drew my wife Reisen the best.

>>49563928
what about her sister?

>>49565907
the pink one was not as good.

>>49566953