Maritumi

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This nice piece of music, made by the reference of electronics Maritumi-san is my little gem of a comission.
Originally I got difficulties to know what I was searching for
but the music itself helped me a ton. It became one of the song of my "imaginary blender movies".
This part would be the second part after my all time favorite music which is "Stargazer" from Liz Triangle.
First music would feature a broken robot and Tsukasa searching for solution in a mysterious and beautiful desert with a sad ending of the robot falling and dying
Then this piece would be the "rebound" of her trying her best to get out of this world (which is in truth a test tube of Ran)
The hope of this piece is really straightfoward and intense.
Maritumi's drum&bass is like the good old vanilla ice cream, it just works and hit well each time.


























Doggo_1d34

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The Tengu Gathering! I love this piece because of the Touhou mentality that is shares
A good drink and eat out with friends. We can say they are collegues
but they seems quite friendly here. It is just a warm and cozy ambiance and the
pen of Doggo-san bring lively organic lines. He changes all the characters' cloths to modern ones too.
The colors are warm and nice and the characters are respected, the angle of the camera gives us a global vision of the scene
Hotpot is the way to go, always go well with sake!


























Baek Ban

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The Mystias!!! Who doesnot LOVE the Mystias?? As you can see I am a HUGE fans of Mystia!
It took a while but it is my favorite chracter for lot of reason, from a little idiotic bird, she became a good hardworker, full of great values
She even learn to play guitar and not sing for her group "Choujuu Gigaku", punk music. Which is pretty funny to see her schred guitar about Gensokyo "society" is rotten!
Baekban-san, from South Korea, accepted my commercial comission, because it is the logo of my futur café! A touhou related café with others passion licences.
I love them so much that I made them in PVC keyholders for my futur clients. They are 100% awesome and represent what I strive for.
I even made "VIP" one, shiny ones, so I can offer for very good clients.I think having multiples logos for a café can be a dumb decision, but it can works if it's one character, like the "Mystia coffee"^^!
It's funny how Dojin culture is totally ignored outside of Japan, I want a café presenting all this insane culture to others. The blue one is my best favorite.


























Naufaldreamer

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Naufal's art! A reference to the West. Man got a loose style that is so cool to see, however he doesn't mean he is bad with fundamental, by far.
This piece would have been the cover of my second book, when my own version of Gensokyo breaks and chaos explose everywhere. It is darkgrim, to the point Suika got destroyed. That is scary.
Tsukasa, as the main character of the first book, is still is in this book. But while a main character can have the story unfold for her tribulations (nice word), here the character is trying to survive
The pose of her running of this picture is freaking awesome, the hues of red are cleannn and the composition is flowing. The focus is on their faces and worry.
And a little reference to doom behind, who ask for more? Doom and touhou are like bread and butter, right?
Very nice piece for a cover of a book, makes you wonder and change opinions of characters and does a complete 180 to the cover of the first book.


























Zzyma

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Well, this piece is kinda special. It was originally the cover of my book 4
A Reimu, stranded, trapped, her head, stuck into a special box. At all costs, she should never be free again.
It's not enemies, but friendly. The Yakumos did this to her? But why? We don't know. But perhaps to play chess against a bigger enemy.
I wanted this book to be the "final battle" before the last book that would have been the most creative one. But this book could shown the pure wickness of the Yakumos to a level readers would have never expected.
Reimu is conscious on the painting and it's the arm of Chen silencing her.
This painting have been made with lot of email with Zzyma, it's better to use emails for very compelx pieces.
The piece represent all the "canon" main games in order; There is others secrets in the painting for the trained eyes.
And the suprise to it is this : I gifted this huge oil painting to... ZUN-san! I did not receive news for a while, but one day during one of his beer streams, he actually shown it as "one of his best fan piece".
it is quite exceptionnal since he prefer not to show fan works for reasons : no autorisation of the fans and not profiting a circle to not disadvantage others.
He said it himself before, he prefers to stay neutral about all of it. But this painting (and my fan letter) were made in the idea to show it to a lot of people, West or East.
If lot of people enjoy my comissions, it's great because this piece is for celebrating Touhou for its 19th game. I can't wait the 20th demo release and swim into its music again.
I am extremely grateful he appreciated this piece that, I actually got the picture while you are almost sleeping but not quite. This state is fantastic for imagination. I remember to get up, note on the paper and went to bed again.
I think Zzyma art is quite specific but works perfectly with oil painting and symbolism. I actually have a Momiji from them on my desk and it is a great front portrait of her.


























Ramnik5

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Now we are talking the Momiji's specialist. He is probably one of the few artists that spend years and years only drawing her like a madman.
This comission was a character sheet for a 3D model. The 3D model would have been used for my first ever 3D blender movie.
Well, when I finished part 1 of minusT's tutorial of blender, after 3 months, I decided that it would be way harder than expected.
The problem is : Blender is really hard. It is the photoshop of 3D and can be too powerful for the beginner.
The other problem is : the course is in...korean. So you must gets it with...english subtitles.
While watching a movie, it is fine. But for learnign a high-level new skill, it is hell to stop again and again.
That's a big shame if you ask me because minusT is a good teacher with a superbe patience to show everything from the ground. If you are korean and wants to get into 3D, it's 100% worth its price.
For the piece, it is a SUPERBE revisited Momiji. Please try to see her jumping on flying Tengus machine at 100meters high-level
Then with 50 others Wolf Tengus, they all jump on a gigantic floating plateform and fight goes insane.
The culmination happens when the music explode like the big flying thing
Momiji got ejected and hurt badly, losing her armor
Now imagine a struggling, a one-on-one, BLOODY hand-to-hand combat with a strong "Thing", stronger than her.
By sheer luck, Nitori with a jetpack comes, give 2 or 3 futuristic shotgun shots, then surcharge her "energy cell" on her back
Then she save her friend while jumping, camera upwards looking at a red maple explosion. Full hollywood copium.
it's the direct awesome action injected into the veins. The design here really define the whole tone of my series.
This little movie in my head actually started my passion in all the others....9 others movies.
I would need a whole life to make them, art can be so frustrating T_T
If you want a nice Momiji, that is not the moe one, and not the agressive one, but a the awesome/realistic one, don't search more, it is Ramnik-san.
He did a manga too that is short and pretty good too, check it, it's about yokais. https://ramnik5.com/


























Hikanyan

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There is never enough Momiji !!!
But this one is the dangerous one, the moe, the cute, the addictive Momiji.
Collecting "super-deformed" or "chibi" Momiji is a dangerous adventure, because it will take you multiples days.
And more so if you commission it from the best artist to draw the chibi momiji.
You can't hate her, it's impossible, it's physically impossible.
Giving her a toast was the best thing I did, and look at her, LOOK AT HER, she is SO happy. With her little antenna on her head.
The chibis are actually a weapon, a dangerous one to weak hearts. Be cautious to not take too much Siever-Miji with her art.
Hikanyan-san is a Master of making others saying "GNHHHH!!" She always use the good classic emotes too, a person with real taste.
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Another one!
Mystia and Kyouko having a nice refreshing iced beer.
Like a lot of people playing Mystia Izakaya, thoses 2 are one of my favorites.
They are hardworking but silly too.
A mug of beer is so good after a hard day of work.
They are well detailed even for chibies.
Hikanyan-san did a wonderful work in record time like before.
She is the Mike Tyson of cuteness (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง̲


























Liztora

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This piece was commissionned for thanking the biggest commissioner of Nazrin (prononciation is "Nazurin")
The generous man is Louisdesnow As of today the 24/04/2025, he sended 675 comissions.(!!!!)
It is a world record, right?
So I added ANOTHER Nazrin to his quite insane collection.
So, yea I think a comission as a gift is a minimum for his generosity.
I got the art from Lily, my favorite singer and she made a nice cute Nazrin, with a timid twist.
Who doesn't like a timid, summer-dressed, rat girl, with shiny eyes?
It can be a modest cover of one of their CDs, and the music would be a relaxing one, right?


























Envenomist

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This piece was more spontanious and a personnal guilty pleasure.
While I am a fan of Momiji, I am a fan of Nitori too.
I kinda relate to this smart kappa, because I was a technicien in industry.
I found one of Evenomist-san art like but it was erotic, while the piece was fantastic, I wanted a piece without the erotic part
This artist delivered with so much more, all the details are great. The cloth fold(!!!), the detail on the boots, the background.
It is a great piece that satisfy my inner techy nerd in me. The big key tool in her hands is absurd but credible too!
That composition and pose, camera angle are hmmmm~~~, really good. I love her pose, it keeps a bit of her feminity without showing more.
There is a little fish-eye too, and it's well done. just light enough to reinforce the position of the camera and show the background.
Sometimes a serious piece like this one is the best.


























Numenoko

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This art should have been the background of a Twitch channel I should have made.
Numenoko is a person of mysteries on twitter.
He/she always poses mysteries as games, and sometimes if you win, you got a comission as a gift.
The art is definitly into the cute category, but more into the goofy one.
Actually the interactions with the artist are never serious, and rarely, he/she go VERY serious in heavy subject, it is actually so funny.
Cute art with incredible consistancy, I love the 4-koma/little stories with Koishi that have ZERO sense too
Besides the skilled craft, this artist show that your behavior can art itself, even if you are completly goofy and out of your mind.
That's pretty interesting to keep in mind.
I kept the art little like that,
I don't think it was the original piece, but it makes it funnier.


























Ikedaruriko

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The Chibis Tsukasas! It was intended to decorate the bars of descriptions below the stream.
I wanted very high quality to make the difference and Ikeda-san doesn't do chibis a lot. But she nailed it.
They are absolutly adorable cookies and i would eat them if I could.
i don't have the original pieces since I didn't need it, so I heard fellow fans in Japan got them.
It gives me good feelings to know others people enjoy the same chibies!
Then, there is the BIG painting. A masterpiece I guess?
This painting is the cover of my first book and the one in front of my desk.
It is the true and most sincere definition of a Kuda-Gitsune, the black mixed with white. And the gold are there to keep your precious attention.
The piece was so good that it helped finish my book.
Tsukasa is still one my favorite touhou, but after writing a book of 300 pages, you can guess it's not so much anymore.
But the painting is still full of energy and wickness. This fox is absolutly evil.
While I can describe the piece, It's preferable to let you enjoy it yourself.
The name of the piece given by the artist is "Control me"!


























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