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A Halloween-themed Touhou collaboration! Check out the rules to participate! ✧ Applications currently closed: all characters are taken! ✧

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Do you hear it? The sound of the wind whistling through the dead tree branches? Or the wolves’ howls in the distance? If you strain your ears hard enough, you might even hear a...

BOO!

Magus Party may be coming to a close tonight, but as evident by the overwhelmingly positive reception, it surely won’t be forgotten for more Hallows’ Eves to come... and for that, we thank each and every one of you!

Here are the individual group pictures―click through to view the full sizes, and a big thank you to all of the artists who pitched in! Without you this project wouldn’t have been possible.

Stay safe this Halloween, and as always, stay spooky.

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Girls do their best now and are preparing. Please wait warmly until it is ready...

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Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick... Ding! The clock strikes midnight, and the day turns over...

Thank you everybody for your submissions, whether they came at the very beginning or the very end, and thank you everybody who supported us the whole time!

As it is now midnight the 30th in my cozy little corner of the globe, the deadline has officially been met and we will no longer accept submissions unless you have spoken to us beforehand, or if we can work something out (e.g. you were unable to complete it due to an emergency, power outages, etc).

Thank you again for sticking with us! We’ll be piecing together the images, and you can expect it to go up sometime midday the 31st, PST.

Take care, and good night! Stay spooky.

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This is definitely the last reminder you’ll get from us: today is the last day to send your Magus Party submission! Don’t forget! We’ll be accepting pieces all day long so please try to finish yours as soon as possible! We most likely won’t send individual reminders.

And again, if you know you won’t be able to complete your artwork on time, please let us know. Thank you!

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About the deadline being the 29th, does it mean it's due midnight on the 29th (aka tonight) or 11:59 pm on the 29th (aka tomorrow night)?

Tomorrow night! We’ll be accepting submissions all day tomorrow until 11:59 pm, UTC-8:00.

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After you put the submissions together and the event is over, we can post our works on their own, right?

Exactly! You can upload your artwork wherever you want once the event is over; we’re just keeping it secret until the group pictures are finished.

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Will you still be accepting artworks after the deadline?

Sadly no, sorry! We have to put all the submissions together, which is gonna take a little while on our end, so giving more time for people to work on their pictures won’t be possible. A deadline is a deadline, after all. If it’s only a matter of a few details or a problem with submitting, we’ll close our eyes and still accept your work a bit after the deadline, but that’s it.

In all cases, if something comes up and makes you unable to submit your artwork on time, please let us know.

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Is semi-transparency allowed in our artworks? For example ghostly or glass/crystal objects could be semi-transparent.

Hi there! Yep, semi-transparency in your designs is totally ok, whether it’s for ghosts, crystal, glass, fabric, wings... Whichever piece of your picture would look nice this way. We’re eager to see the results!

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Which time zone are we going by if our pieces are due on the 29th?

Mods live in different time zones, UTC-8:00 and UTC+1:00. So ultimately, as long as you submit your piece on the 29th in the UTC-8:00 time zone, you’re still on time.

But please try to avoid playing with fire too much when it comes to the deadline, and send us your work whenever possible. It’ll make things easier for everyone so we’d really, really appreciate it.

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what happens when we're done with our work? who do we send them to?

When you’re done with your work please email the file to [email protected] with the title being the name of your character. Thank you!

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What would happen in the event of someone failing to complete their work? Would that be much of a problem to the event as a whole?

It wouldn’t really inconvenience us that much, except that we’d be a little sad to see the character missing from their group. In the event of someone not submitting their piece on time there isn’t a whole lot we can do except simply not include that character.

Though, if you think you won’t be able to finish your piece, pleaaaase let us know if you can! We’d really appreciate it.

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is it okay to post teaser pictures? Like a super zoomed in or distorted picture of the original

One of the mods was a bit on the cusp, so we both discussed our two cents on the matter and decided that we’d prefer if you didn’t post these kinds of things just yet! Especially considering that there’s less than a week to wait, I hope you’ll understand this.

Thank you for asking us!!

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Hey there, everyone! Did you miss us? We missed you.

This may be the last time we remind you guys, so try not to forget! Our deadline is Oct. 29th, so it’s coming up pretty quickly! If you haven’t started working on your image, please start it ASAP, and if you can’t finish yours let us know so we can figure something out!

Thanks for sticking with us this long, take care, and as always, stay spooky.

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If you’re participating in the Touhou Magus Party Halloween Event, don’t forget to draw your character soon!

The deadline is coming up! 

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Hello! Quick question, is it okay to have a small character beside the ones we're gonna draw? Because my characters outfit will be like a cosplay and it would be kinda cute if the being (demon) they're cosplaying as is floating beside them since the being does not have a human form so I had to make my own design. It's okay if its not allowed!

Howdy!

Yes, this is fine― however, we are really going to stress that the mascots people might include have to be small, unobtrusive, and do not distract from the main character. After all, these cute little mascots aren’t the star of the show!

Just having it float around beside your character shouldn’t raise any problems, we don’t think! If you’re unsure you can just shoot us an e-mail and we’ll let you know what we think about it.

Hope that answers your question!!

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Originally, I was planning on doing a pose involving perspective, but after reading about the side-by-side orientation, that would mess with the relative scale of the characters, right? So I guess my questions is, what are your guideline and regulations for posing, if any?

Hey there! We don’t really have a lot of restrictions when it comes to poses, I’d guess. You’re free to come up with something original, as long as it follows these guidelines:

character must be seen from head to toes, unless exceptions in the design (Kisume’s bucket or Shinmyoumaru’s giant bowl hiding their legs, for example)

the easiest would be to make your character stand up so we can see their full design, but we’re certainly not against other types of poses! One of the submissions we got, for example, had the character sitting on a pile of items. This is perfectly ok with us as long as the design of the character isn’t hidden.

we just ask that participants avoid very low or high angles. Eyelevel angle is the best here!

If your pose meets these requirements, then chances are we’ll be ok with it too! And of course, participants are also free to send us a message if they want to make sure the pose is alright before working on their final piece. Hope that helps!

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Hello there! Just wanted to address a matter that I've been thinking about; It's alright to draw traditionally as long as the finished drawing is made transparent, right?

Hey! Sure thing! As long as the background is transparent in the final picture you send us, you’re free to draw your character traditionally.