Rin Elica

Artist, she/her, rin.elica on IG/Pixiv/Twitter

[rinelica]

Your artwork is always such a pleasure to see. While it has similarities to my personal favorite manga series' style, the charm and cuteness of your art never fails to make me smile. I sincerely hope you have a wonderful day, and that things get better for you.

Thank you so much!! Reading this means a lot, I'm really glad my art can do that (and I'm curious as for the series now haha) 💕 I hope your day will be wonderful as well!

[rinelica]

Got covid and my brain was way too slow to work on my current projects so I made this on a whim

It was absolutely useless but fun to make!

It's been a while since I drew the whole MS cast, I often wonder how old each devil are and what eras they are from... I'm doing a new lineup lately, with historical clothing as a bonus, and I'm still pondering if I should include Ayana this time, she may just be a midboss but she's still part of the cast (well, there's Hikariko too...)

[rinelica]

btw your style is like. so cool?? keep up the awesome art bro

Thank you very much!! I'll keep it up for sure😊

[rinelica]

Mai and some doodles❄️

[rinelica]

Read : Left -> Right

The little summer themed comic I made for @gensokyozine 's Seasons of Gensokyo! If you haven't already, go check out everyone's heartwarming works :

Seasons of Gensokyo by gensokyozine

A Touhou fanzine showcasing over 100 works about the four seasons!

Thank you again for this opportunity, I had a lot of fun working for this zine ❤

(I hope this post will come out nicely, I had a very bad connexion lately)

[gensokyozine]

IT'S HERE!!

We're excited to present ☀️ Seasons of Gensokyo ❄️, a Touhou Project fanzine with over 100 contributors and over 200 pages of incredible content! It's all free to download, too!

⬇️ https://gensokyozine.itch.io/gensokyoseasons

[gensokyozine]

IT'S HERE!!

We're excited to present ☀️ Seasons of Gensokyo ❄️, a Touhou Project fanzine with over 100 contributors and over 200 pages of incredible content! It's all free to download, too!

⬇️ https://gensokyozine.itch.io/gensokyoseasons

[rinelica]

Hi there! Here is a preview from a 5 pages comic I did for @gensokyozine's Seasons of Gensokyo which will be available later this month

This is the first time I managed to finish a comic, it may be short but I had so much fun drawing it (I'm so proud of me finally getting out of the given-up-wip-comics spiral haha)

Thank you so much to the mods for giving me this opportunity and for the nice feedbacks! I look forward the zine's release to see the fruit of everyone's hard work!

[rinelica]

Your account is everything to me, your artstyle is my favourite artsyle I've ever seen, it's so edible I want to eat it🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Oh wow, thank you!! What kind of flavour would it have? I'm curious now😂

[rinelica]

why is your art literally perfect. like you just have the best style ever. it makes me feel so much

Thank you so much, it means a lot! I'm glad I can pass on feelings with my art 😊

[rinelica]

I like to imagine Yumeko and Alice having a sisterly bond! Alice's dolls can swordfight, what if it was thanks to Yumeko?

Ayana's here too, she might be a midboss but I like to include her

[rinelica]

how did you find your art style

I really don't know how to explain it... An art style seems like a mix of tastes and experiences, how it ends up really depends of individuals, so all I can do is throwing here my own experiences and tastes in hope it'll somewhat answer your question :

(I'll talk about art schools because I went to one and a few courses had a big impact on my art but I don't necessarily recommend it as the "magic must-do thing" to improve)

Art school helped me by :

This practice -> drawing from real life subjects (or photos) but quickly : I had a teacher who made us draw from a model in limited time (< 10 minutes). Thanks to that, I understood how I really liked to draw, which kind of lines and tools I instinctively was drawn to. I used to spend hours on linearts and hated that part, to me, it wasn't fun to polish, it felt unnatural and I always liked my sketches better. During the practice, I ended up using mainly colour pencils (often orange/brown because I like warm colours) and went from "focusing on the "lineart" of what I see" to "drawing by hatching-sculpting" and that was fun. I wanted to have a similar experience in digital art too, so I picked a brush looking like a pencil (the 6B one on Procreate) and started drawing with it. By doing a first lineart in orange which doesn't have to be perfect since there will be a black one over it, I found the most satisfying way to draw linearts I ever used.

Making me enjoy art analysis and giving me the habit to draw daily (daily art doesn't have to be a fully finished digital piece per day, it can be a random sketch on a piece of paper, as long as it helps fleshing out an art style)

What I did on side of school :

Learning about colour and shape theory, anatomy, art history : These are knowledges supposed (imo) to be learnt in art school but aside from European art history, it wasn't the case in mine. Colour theory is a thing I love, I spent time to really get it but it's worth it, I have a lot of fun playing with colours. Shape theory is something I learned more recently but it helps me greatly with composition when sketching.

Random inspirating things : Landscapes, crafts, games, books... Everything I like feeds my art style and can provide me inspiration.

Examples of works which inspirated me in my art growth :

Also : Madoka Magica (witches scenes) and "Celtic" art (is there a word for that)

[rinelica]

I love your artstyle so much!

It's so unique, and it reminds me a little bit of children's books for some reason, I love how it blends the vibes of traditional and digital art in a very satisfying and aesthetically pleasing way, and I like how your lineart style emphasises and de-emphasises anatomy in creative ways

Thank you very much!!

This makes me really happy, thanks, I'm glad to be able to convey these vibes in my art!! Wow thanks! Anatomy sure isn't my forte, I'm still struggling with some things (hands…) but am studying to get more natural with that. I'd like to draw more things like the Reimu piece I've done, the shapes look so… free/flowing?

[rinelica]

Long time since I last drew them!

[rinelica]

Eternal Shrine Maiden ☯️

[rinelica]

Happy Holidays @spiral2005 ! I was your @touhousecretsanta too! Thank you again for your cute artwork, I hope mine will please you!

Since Tenshi is your favourite, I followed your idea by drawing her gathering Gensokyo's nobles for whatever reason and gave her a big spotlight, kind of like a book cover : Kaguya, Miko, Shinmyoumaru and Kotohime are here because of the royalty title, I didn't really know for Yuyuko so she's here anyway, and all the "*clan name* no *first name*" are here since it tends to show a belonging to nobility. Oh, and Remilia's here since she claims to be a noble and would totally feel like she belongs there!

[spiral2005-deactivated20260110]

happy holidays @rinelica ! i was your @touhousecretsanta this year ! i love the pc-98 characters, so i’m very glad i got to draw yuki and mai for you ^^

[rinelica]

Thank you!! This is so cute, I love the colours and how you used them, it makes the vibes pretty warm despite the big amount of blue, this is so soothing to look at!