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thought of this

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I came across this, and I thought it would be a fun challenge! So, I decided to try it out.

The three themes I got were "rain", "art", and "confused".

I present to you:

Confused Watercolor Tsukumogami ~ Kaname Kuhaku (空白 奏雨)

I gave her a backstory to sort of fit all these themes together.

She's a Tsukumogami of a rainy watercolor painting that the artist who created her rejected, and threw away. However, she doesn't quite realize that she's a Tsukumogami, and is confused about how she's able to walk and talk. I'd imagine she'd probably be a stage 1 boss, lol.

This started out as something just for fun, but honestly, I ended up really liking her. Maybe I should give her a theme song too... hmm...

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why do you feel the need to terrorize me with maid marisa

photo evidence that Marisa is a maid drawn by john touhou himself

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Cirno's Perfect Ice-cream Stand

My piece for @gensokyozine's Seasons of Gensokyo! Please check out the full magazine, there are tons of talented artists featured there!

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Ruler of Nothingness ~ Zanmu Nippaku

Some art I did of Zanmu. She's rapidly become one of my favorite Touhou final bosses.

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Strawberry Crisis!!

one of my favorite PC-98 characters!

Alt version:

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The Maid and the Pocket Watch of Blood

Based on her EoSD design.

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Quick Lily Doodle

Spring is here! (Her famous catchphrase)

Alternate version:

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蓬莱人形　～ Dolls in Pseudo Paradise

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It's Hifuu Day!

To celebrate, I made some art and music!

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Flandre Scarlet

"A criminal with as much imagination as U.N. Owen could have a rope around your neck before breakfast."

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this is canon, probably

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Marisa (As a Youkai)

I've seen tons of theories that Marisa is turning in to a Youkai, considering that it's stated likely to happen in universe, and that her eyes have been red as of late, so I decided to try designing a youkai Marisa in a crappy MS paint drawing.

Considering she lives in the forest of magic, I decided to go with a nature themed youkai. I ultimately went with the Jubokko since it's tree themed and also cool as fuck honestly

Since she's a Jubokko, she probably has a thirst for human blood now, so I stained her apron a bit and gave her tubes of the stuff, since the Jubokko can apparently turn it's branches into tubes(?) and suck blood out of victims.

I also threw in the ability to manipulate nature, because why not

On top of everything, I added subtle design changes that were introduced in 18.5 and 19 onto her.

All in all, I don't think it's very likely that she'll turn into a youkai in the series, considering ZUN doesn't like altering the status quo that much, but it's still neat to think about!

Edit: Just wanna add, I know she'd probably turn into a magician youkai if she did end up rejecting her humanity, but I wanted to try and imagine what Youkai she would become if that wasn't the case.

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Mandela's Leftovers Vol. 1 - False Miracles

Merry Christmas, everyone! Today I have a special gift to share.

Today, I'd like to go over some of the unused, extra, and prototype content that I made for my game, False Miracles. Think of it as sort of a look-back on everything I've done this year.

Well, let's get started!

Concept Art / Character Concepts

Aero

Aero was the first character I ever designed specifically for False Miracles. He was meant to be a personification of the Frutiger Aero aesthetic, specifically inspired by Windows Aero design from Vista/7.

This was the first drawing I made of Aero, for a discord server art contest. I drew this around the time I was still making Aquatopia, so my art style was a bit different.

This is the rough sketch of their cut-in portraits. I decided to give him a more silly atmosphere, so I give them that :3 face, lol. Also, some people have said that his shoes look like crocs. That wasn't intentional, but perhaps I'll roll with it if it's the majority opinion.

Adrian Pélagique

I designed Adrian after I designed Aero. Frutiger Aero as an aesthetic often portrays both technology and aquatic life. While Aero was the technological side of things, Adrian was meant to represent the Aquatic aspect of it.

This is a drawing I made of him on a school whiteboard around the time I was developing the demo. He's probably my favorite to consistently draw.

This is the sketch of his cut-ins. It was also the drawing where I designed him. For many of the characters, I was improvising their design while drawing their cut-ins. At this point, Adrian did not have a color-scheme yet.

Þ (Thorn)

Thorn was designed after I designed Adrian. Another aspect of Frutiger Aero is nature and plants. So, Aero, Adrian, and Thorn are kind of like the Fruitger Aero personification trinity, lol.

This is a drawing I did of Thorn recently, I imagine this is her casual attire, when she's not gardening. Her fashion sense is inspired by my grandma.

And, her cut-in rough sketches. Like Adrian, her design was created on the spot.

Nisali Adriel

Unlike the last few characters, Nisali is not inspired by the Frutiger Aero aesthetic, because she's actually a character I created long before I created False Miracles, for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. I still play her as a character in D&D regularly, actually!

This was the earliest design I could find for her, from a character sheet from around 2021-2022? Her design and clothes are quite different. Note she doesn't have her wings. If I remember correctly, they used to be retractable?

and here's the sketches of her final design. This is also the design I use in D&D campaigns where I play as her. Quite a bit has changed!

Onyx "Roadkiller" Schäfer

While Roadkiller isn't necessarily inspired by Frutiger Aero, they still have that 2000s air to them, and I think that aids the game. I wanted to design a character of rebellious nature, taking inspiration from alternative fashion.

I believe this is the first proper drawing I made of them. Not much changed from this and their final design, although they did not have a color scheme yet.

This is the cut-in rough sketches. I notice that I left some of the details that required line-less art out of the rough sketch, so I could do it later. I also had their tongue out in their boss attack pose, but got rid of it for some reason. I don't remember why lmao

Skyler Woods

People who've been following me for a while probably knew about this character before False Miracles. I featured them as the main character of an old album of mine called "Into the Woods" which is very old now, lol.

Some old art I made of them in like, 2022? Meant for a sequel album to Into the Woods that I never ended up making.

Eventually I repurposed them for False Miracles as a sort of tribute to my old work. I also like them as a character, and wanted to use them more. Perhaps they can appear in all my work as a sort of sign that what you're looking at is made by me, or something.

Other / Misc

The sketch I made for Magu's sprite. Magu is a guest character, and was created by @d6ggyb0x. So if you want more of Magu, go follow him!!

This is art of Skyler and Thorn when they were younger. I'd imagine this is what they looked like in High School.

Originally, I wanted there to be alt-color palettes for you to choose from. These are ones I made for the demo, that I never ended up implementing.

Unused Assets

These are graphics that I planned on using in-game, but never did.

Unused Achievements

These are icons for achievements that I never ended up implementing due to time constraints. The first one was for clearing all Story Mode routes, and the other two were for clearing a match without using lives or bombs.

Unused Border

Originally, I wanted to include mini-games or something like that, sort of like Plants Vs. Zombies. This would've been the graphic used for those, since you wouldn't be competing against a CPU in some of them. This was scrapped pretty early on, because I thought it might've been too much of a task to implement. Maybe I might try something like this in the future.

Unused Staff-roll images

These were two graphics I wanted to use in the staff roll. Instead of the scrolling city, I wanted this image to pan from the grass up to the sky. It's a picture I took myself, but when I tested it out, the image quality was too low when zoomed in. So I never used it. The ball would've bounced around the screen, but I threw it out because I thought it might be too distracting.

Unused Music

These are songs that I wanted to be in the game, but I threw out before release.

*Note: The songs you hear were originally composed in Online Sequencer, but were remade in LMMS like the other songs to be accurate to the final version of the game.

Aquarium ~Vibraphone Version~

This was an unused version of Adrian's theme. The version you hear in game would've played normally, but when Adrian sent over a boss attack, it would switch to this version.

This would've been a cool concept, but ultimately with how limiting Scratch is as an engine, would've been a nightmare to implement. So I didn't use it.

Photosynthesis

This was originally meant to be Thorn's theme. When I was first creating Thorn as a character, I imagined her with a more bratty, childish attitude, but as I started designing her more and more and started writing for her, she changed to a more motherly, optimistic and friendly character, so ended up making a new theme for her. This one is okay, but in retrospect, I'm kind of glad I never used it. I think Serenity fits Thorn much better.

Looking back on this year, I'm really happy with how much I was able to accomplish this year. There were times where I thought I would never even finish this project, but I'm glad I did it. Thank you so much for sticking around. Happy Holidays, and I hope you have a Happy New Year!!

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I made an arrangement of a Touhou song

Also here's the isolated Meiling art

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I drew Youmu talking to Hannah Montana for a dumb qrt a while ago and ooc it's kinda funny honestly