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he/she 🪭🧪 - multifandom minor

[shoujomisshitsu]

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patch | he/she | minor

feel free to call me whatever though

hello! i am patchouli; any nickname is appreciated. primarily a blog where i dump slop into. this varies from art to random analyses so dont follow for anything in particular

apologize with my whole heart if i ever say anything weird im very Awkward.

main interests

umamusume, touhou project, arknights, object shows (im Sorry.), multiple other things i cant be bothered to list

[shoujomisshitsu]

that one tiktok trend

[lyricalive]

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Touhou 07   (Crystallized Silver)

—English fanlyrics—

           Now that we've met, swear to never tell a soul…

Welcome to the winter wonderland!  Join me for a tour. What lies over ice-capped hills is a secret human eyes never knew before. These arms will be here to guide your way, through blizzard and storm. Wrap tight in my silver blanket, until its sweet embrace feels a little warm...

     Let yourself go to the resplendent beauty of the storm!      Gaze on its bright, beautiful white form! Don't be afraid anymore~

           Now that we've met, swear to never tell a soul…            But don't forget, lest I melt away in whole…

Intense yet ephemeral are they, these remnants of snow... By coming of spring, they cling like a dew upon the buds, nowhere left to go. But you, like the rarest snowflake, are so firm to the core... Your body may crystallize and be frozen in its place, shining evermore!

     Become as one with the resplendent beauty of the storm!      Show me your bright, beautiful white form! Don't be afraid anymore~

[rawserhh]

i like when she holds him gentle like this like a burger

[shoujomisshitsu]

the master of yap and misinformation himself

[fernsnstuff]

May I request Kosuzu from Forbidden Scrollery? She's my favourite :)

tried to post earlier but tumblr was down so sad

[pankielovesfan]

I didnt wanna put this on my main art account bc its sloppy as fuckkk

(template by redheadyuri on twt)

[pankielovesfan]

this is kind of exactly what i thought when putting him there. its both funny bc hes my favourite but its also serious bc he really IS so overrated now with s4 which is characterizing him in a way that ignores majority of his overwhelming traits mainly negative ones that the fandom was ALREADY ignoring even when it was on full display (i.e. s3 ep2 with stealing from cabby)

(tags from magic-ace)

[shoujomisshitsu]

fanbrush ship chart!! ^u^ idk how to draw pb errrr yeah ive been very discouraged about my art sorry this is bad

[shoujomisshitsu]

marshmallow ii gijinka rkgk

i uploaded on my twt too

[maruzenskys-commodore64]

imagine being nice nature. you're born nothing special but work your ass off and get accepted to the most prestigious racing academy in the country. you're not the best, yet, but you know if you apply yourself, you'll get there one day, maybe even win a G1. then you meet her, a goddamn generational talent. whatever you're good at, she's better. her aspirations start with the triple crown, and she's strong enough to meet her goals. she takes the concerts just as seriously as the races. the press loves her. the fans love her. you want to hate her, but you can't bring yourself to do it because she's a genuinely kind and friendly person whose apparent biggest flaw is being oblivious to how far ahead of the pack she is. even in this nascent state of your career, you know you'll be running against her again, and again, and again.

and then you try to vent about this to your roommate and she puts you in a fucking pocket dimension

[nynnyn666]

hanfu seiga

[fuujin-roku]

River of prisms

[bluebell-42]

Shortly after that Zanmu drawing, I went on an art spree and made small little drawings of a majority of the current playable characters in Touhou (I've been procrastinating on drawing Aya and Ran) and finally gave myself refernce points for how to draw all these characters going forward! Also, don't mind the change in background colour, that's just me changing the background so the values are actually visible lol.

Artist's Notes;

So the first one I started with was Reimu, and the inspiration for her pose came from this pose reference on Pinterest of a girl doing ribbon dancing, and I thought "Damn, that's very Reimu-coded" and did a quick little Reimu drawing from that.

This was also the drawing where I finally learned what makes a Reimu drawing feel like Reimu. It's the shirt, it's literally just the shirt. I decided to try making Reimu's shirt have a stronger square shape and oh my god it's like I discovered some kind of secret sauce because it just feels so much more like Reimu. I also gave Reimu a tabard and loose pants because I felt like that also fit her very well and also tied in some element's of Yukari's design into hers. I also made her bow look more like a very geometric butterfly as a bit of a tie in to "Diochromatic Lotus Butterfly" and also because I think butterfly symbolism fits her a lot. I also left the hands unfinished because they are not the focus of this piece, Reimu is, I don't wanna cry over how I can't get the hands right and then never get to the actually fun parts of the drawing. Previously, I did some design experimentation with Reimu where I added a little ornament on her obi that was inspired by Yuna's design from Final Fantasy 10 (I can't remember if I ever posted that one lol, also FFX is so good you guys I love it so much) and I like it, I think it adds some fun assymetry to her design that I think makes it look neat. I also gave her some more traditional Japanese shoes (I don't know the name of them so please correct me if you know) since I've seen other artists doing it and I love that look so I added that to this drawing as well.

I also really like how Marisa turned out, I experimented a bit with her body type and outfit, though I didn't really go too off-model with her compared to Reimu. I liked the longer sleeves on her and I gave her a big bow on the back of her apron since I thought it looked cute. I couldn't find a spot for the bow on her hat that looked good so sadly that isn't present in this version of her :( I do like how her face turned out though, since I've also been experimenting with how differently stylized I can make faces in my art. I will always love mangas like Hunter X Hunter that can put two extremely differently stylized characters on the same panel and make it look cohesive, it's why I love the style so much.

I think the crulest irony is not being able to draw your favourite character well while you're hyperfixating on them, but then only being able to draw them how you picture them once they're no longer your favourite, and that happened with Sakuya here. I was initially gonna give her the flashiest eyeshadow known to man but when I removed the layer wih the eyeshadow rendering on it I ended up liking it more without it, so now she's just got some nice bottom lashes. I tried giving her more of an hourglass shape for her body type, mainly to differentiate her more from Reimu and Marisa, and I focused on making as many points in her drawing as sharp as I can. I also gave her some white gloves because I like the idea of Sakuya having fancy gloves, it fits her. To me, Sakuya has always been the most high femme of the main Touhou characters. Maybe this is just because she was my gay awakening, maybe it's just influence from the fandom, but it just kind of makes sense to me. Much like Marisa, I also emphasized the bow ribbons for extra oomph with the silhouette and when I added the red bows and looked at the overall design, I fixed the lack of red anywhere else by just... covering her in blood... I mean she does work for two vampires and she's exactly the sanest person in Gensokyo so please pardon my indulgence in edginess it couldn't be helped.

Youmu was really fun to do but also kinda challenging. In my mind I wanted to make her feel different compared to everyone else I've drawn so far, short enough to be somewhat accurate to canon, but not too childish looking since she never really acts all that childish in cannon and it wouldn't make sense for her to look like a child. I also had to make her look fast and speedy without her looking like Sakuya and potentially avoiding same body syndrome with Aya, who's whole gimmick is speed. In the end, I think her drawing is my favourite, mainly because of the shapes and silhouette. I also really like how I golden-ratioed myon. I also took a few liberties with her outfit and decided to give it some layers to add visual interest. I also like how the cuts in the clothing add more triangles, which adds to the shape language. For her face, I was wondering what to do with her eyes until I decided to just go for the simple, glowing, circular eyes she has in the final product. I was also listening to a bunch of Gorrilaz albums while drawing these (Demon Days is my favourite album btw, idk how basic of a take that is though) and my brain 100% was subconsciously influenced by some elements of the art style (it's so good omg). I also like the shade of green I gave her, though I am a certified green lover so I am 100% biased.

Reisen is where I let myself get a little weird with it, because as you can see, I turned her into an anthropomorphic bunny because she is a weird moon rabbit god dammit, why should she look normal? I was more excited about drawing her IN design than her modern design so that's why she's dressed like that, but I do have a sketch of her in my sketchbook of her modern design. I also had fun rendering her velvet suit jacket. This also helped me tie in some of the reds in her eye and ear, which is also a nice bonus. I also gave her pure white fur to create more visual contrast. Overall, I'm pretty happy with how she turned out, though I wish I didn't shade the legs too much because it's kinda blending with the skirt colour....welp, ya win some ya lose some I guess.

Sanae is also relatively on-model compared to everyone else here, though I did try to make some changes to her outfit to make her feel different from Reimu. First of all, I made her big sleeves (IDK the proper Japanese term for them, if there is one, so again if you know please correct me on this) more open than Reimu's, as well as making them more pointy to give her a different silhouette. I also tried out a new rendering style on her eyes that I also applied to Cirno (we'll get to her in a moment) to also make her face feel different from Reimu's. I'll be honest, I didn't really know what to do with her body type so she just kinda got the "basic slim girl" look in her drawing. I'm not too big a fan of the frills I added to her skirt though, I don't really think she needs them. I'm glad I gave Reimu pants and a tabard instead of a normal skirt because that does help to make the two of them feel different. I also kept her little frog hair clip the same shade of blue as her dress, mainly to economize my colour usage and limit the palette into something a little more tight-nit. I do like how her little hair snake looks though, it's cute lol.

And finally, we have Cirno. I have been a firm believer of "long sleeve Cirno is best Cirno" ever since I saw the art of her in PMiSS because she's an ice fairy, I think it would make sense for her to want to keep herself warm, same reason she has little socks too. Now that I look at it more, her colours are pretty similar to her design in Great Fairy Wars, and honestly I like that, I think keeping her colour palette simple is a good idea so I'm happy about that. I mainly wanted to focus on rendering her wings though, mainly because rendering ice and crystals is fun even though I have done zero studies of them! I also wanted to experiment with rendering her eyes in a similar way to Sanae's, and I like how they turned out! I don't know if I'll continue with this style in the future but it will probably stick around because to me, any stylistically different way of doing eyes is another facial feature I can use to bend the rules of same face syndrome.

While I'm on the topic, I want to mention that the reason Hunter X Hunter's art works so well is because everything is kinda rendered the same. It showed me that if you do everything else consistently in your style (i.e. rendering, lineart, shading), stylizing each character's faces differently will be a lot easier, at least that's how I see it. IDK if I'm ever gonna do drawings of Aya and Ran in this style since I gotta think about them more as well as stop procrastinating lol.

[townslore]

my two favourite umas 🥕🌟

[lilacs-stash]

Btw II being Fan’s whole life is him being ND and unhealthily attached to it. It kinda doesn’t have anything to do with what II itself is it’s just what Fan happened attached himself too. His arc was him coming out of his shell and finding there’s more to life then just hiding away. And he still loves II after it’s just he has more, it isn’t all he is. He’s made his own show he’s got friends who care about him he does fun little events at the hotel. He’s really living now. FFF was a great end to his arc, well not being an end to his character.

And then they threw that alllll away because AE needed to write survivor again and Fan is the only person who’d be willing to be a game show host

[mokoedits]

tojiko pride icons!! like/reblog if using, thank you!! ♡

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