Yakumo Yukari by Geister

woah...luv teh art...

nose bleeds...@@ love the art style..
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He draws shoes very well, better than most anime artists I've seen. Not that his style is exactly anime. It seems to border on realism.

I DOUBT it was traced. There's nothing wrong with using an image as a reference. Look at the exquisite detail of the art. This is good stuff and I'm not even a Touhou fan. I've only ever seen the anime that fans say doesn't exist (notice I'm not naming it).

beautiful artwork <3

Great (and so phucking artistic) job!!!

I'm quite sure this new one is a trace too, you'd need skills superior to Rembrandt to get the lighting and anatomy right without using a reference.

Mmm!

Regardless of the drawing method, his works (the traced ones) are really cool, minus the anatomic/lighting/perspective errors. In my books, tracing is a viable form of art and I don't really care how it's made if it looks as awesome as this.

i have near countless books of referance drawings, anatomy/medical drawings, and gigs of othere referance material on the harddrive. using a picture as insparation for a certain pose is not bad, tracing it then sayings its your own.. thats bad.

and his coloring is damn excellent.. wish i was a 1/4 of his skill..!!

I've never felt such desperate need to sodomize a woman in my life, until I saw Yukarin. Fuck...

I think the lat image is indeed plagiarism is obviou he saw the pic liked it and either copied it or traced, if he used it for reference the final pic would be different to the photo, but they are the same, even the pillows are arranged the same way as in the photo.

Check Boris Vallejo, he takes pics before doing a painting, but the
end product is never exactly as the photo

as an aspiering manga artsit who draws girls a LOT:) I can under stand him useing referenc material shit I know I do! People on here need to stop the bullshit! Cuz you know there is know way in hell that you fags could draw that without some referenc!

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-images-xx/geister-touhou-ero-yakumo-yukari.jpg

nice:)

i don't like them, they look too realistic to me
i rather they look more ANIMEted
they are good though, i just don't like them (the pictures)

Personally, that Yukari pic is so beautiful it made me cry.

same pose same shade same muscle bend.
when all you need just to relpace the anime head
that what ppl call plagiarism

he used the same pose, and since he didnt take the picture, thats plagiarism

so where can i see a larger version of the photo that was used for reference? anybody know?

I'll have to try and get a pixiv account, hopefully my jp girl will sign me up so i can view more his shit

Strange... why is it a crime to use reference? Isn't imagining the pose in memory after looking at real poses also considered reference? All artists are practically referencing from their own imaginations for god's sake.

i think him/her using reference is okay. (IANAL-- this is just an opinion, mind you.)

Touhou artists should march in his footsteps. I've seen about over 9000 pics with exactly same pose. It's about time someone breathe new air into this over-saturated genre.

When I first saw that image, I new right away that reference was used because many of his other illustrations anatomically aren't as accurate as this one.

late as usual

You mean artists DON'T draw everything purely from their imagination? They use REFERENCES???

I am shocked and appalled at these talentless hacks!! I'm going on a trip around the world's art galleries to cut up paintings now.

There's a saying. Taking from one source is plagiarism. Taking from two is research. :)

who is this yakumo?i only know school rumble yakumo.
and this yakumo is scary somehow

is it just me, or the knees are a little too far on the 2nd pic? ( the one with the 2 girls )

Palagiarism?
It take a lot of skill to tracing a picture you know??
i wont call it plagiarism since it done by hand and skill not stealing!

That is one sexy image of Yukari but then again i much prefer the Sakuya one

Sankaku Complex sure is turning, little by little, into a pron site. I hope this doesn't aggravate even more.

Good work.

....excellent...

I was thinking that the first one looks like a photo was used for reference. It's hard to draw things like that without some kind of reference that's for sure. But it should be used as a learning method and not as a pure trace job that way, in the future those kinds of angles are easier to draw.

Greetings ~

Xcellent work all round... and how is a "reference" plagiarism?

That's plain idiotic...

However, that is another issue that will be debated for years on years...

The MAIN point is the drawing... and that is definitely FTW!

who cares if its plagiarism, awsome pics is awsome

I don't see any resemblance between the picture and the photograph. You people are crazy.

Amazing. I wanna know how to do that XD

Regardless of the working method, his Sakuya looks magnificient minus the perspective mess-up. In my books tracing is a viable form of art. I'd fancy his works more, were they more SFW...

seeing the last pic made me a little bit more confident

Wow, nevertheless, good job

Regardless of the working method, his Sakuya looks magnificent (minus the insane back-arching, it looks like there's a perspective or anatomical mess-up to me). In my books, tracing is a viable form of art.

How anyone can think those pics look good is beyond me.

The one time when i'm not impartial to Touhou.

3D+2D+ART= BONER!

Until someone overlays the image on top of each and they line up exactly, I'm sticking to heavily referenced; Sakuya is arching her back more than in the picture. Besides, every artist uses a reference. Chances are, it's going to look almost exactly the same because you're trying to draw something you otherwise would have no idea how. You want to get it right before you change it how you like it.

using real life human references to draw is normal. artists the likes of tony and ishikei do it aswell i'm sure.

however, the only thing that I could say that may constitute as plagiarism is the fact that he pretty much reproduced everything else in the photos, like the pillows and bedsheets. that's just being lazy and uncreative.

Is that Aki Hoshino? Can we get a high res of that pleaseeeeeeeee?????????

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