She's been rotating in my head like a microwave recently and I just needed to draw her again
Artists note:
I wasn't really happy with the way I drew her in my style, so I decided to try drawing her again, as well as doing some more experimentation with my style.
(Also pardon how tense Zanmu looks in this lmao, Hisami probably pissed her off that day lol)
as I was drawing her, I recently went to the (now finished) Touhou wiki page for her and wanted to capture the graceful side to her character as well. I was also inspired by that one tier list of the different ways Touhou characters refer to themselves in Japanese, and Zanmu refers to herself the same way old people do (lmao) so I added some white hairs and wrinkles at the corners of her eyes. I could've gone a bit harder on the wrinkles but I imagine she's probably aged gracefully. I also wanted to include some of the red eyeshadow that I see in other peoples art of her because it looks nice.
Also, I've recently been trying to improve upon the way I draw different body types with women, because I would sometimes make the shoulders too wide and it wouldn't look right. I feel like I've gotten better at that with this drawing.
I also wanted to practice drawing clothing folds as well as gaining a better understand of how her outfit works.
One last thing to note, the vibes for Zanmu in this piece were inspired by Renata Glasc from LoL (I don't play league I just like Arcane and animation and character design analysis videos for it).
Also on the topic of characters Zanmu reminds me of, she reminds me of ToTK Ganondorf for some reason maybe it's the horns but like, I haven't finished the game so no spoilers. Also, I think I brought this up in a previous post, but she reminds me of Meruem from Hunter X Hunter and Hisami reminds of Shaiapouf, like especially with the latter, those two have the same vibes.
