Geister’s Touhou

Damn. Makes my stuff look like the doodles of a child (quite depressing in fact).

Cool style.

Damn pretty awesome art.

What the fuck is that growth on Reimu's arse?

wow. those are simply superb ^^

finally some really good artwork!!

Very good coloring and all, but there is really something wrong with Sakuyas hands in pictures 2 and 3.

How can it be so awesome!?

Hey wait he forgot sakuya's pa-*knifed*

i rike them!

It's too bad he traces.

Don't give me that reference=tracing bullshit.

great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this autor piant so diferrent very stranger

thanks ^o^

I think the guy is actually Chinese...
that surprised me a little but holy shit the drawings are awesome

Guess my comment didn't print. So I'll do a redo with some revise.

Comment by Artefact
Who cares as long as he is not plagiarising other people's illustrations? It possesses rather more artistic merit than most of what you will find in gallery of modern art.

I am surprised to see that you dont hold Photography and Hand drawn images on the same level, at least to some degree.
It is one thing to use a photo as a Reference, it is another to completely copy every detail from a photo, and then claim it as your Original work. However if an Artist gave credit to the original Photo, Model, and Photographer, then there would be less backlash.
It is obvious that he hand draws these images by looking at photographs, but he does not (in anyway) alter or change what he has seen. He literally just copies it. Even doing a Franken-drawing would at least give some form of difference.
Then there are the people who draw food, by looking at a photograph of food. It is impressive that they are able to redo a realistic drawing, but again, just give some credit and be on your way.
Now when it comes to someone drawing a photo that they took themselves, then no credit is needed (obviously). Using your own body as reference is at least more original.

It IS possible to draw and paint this well without tracing a photo, you know. Not saying he doesn't heavily reference photos, but there's nothing wrong with that. If you choose not to reference anything when you're drawing a detailed human body, I can assure you it will come out wrong. The fact that the Touhou costumes etc. look just as good as the rest of the piece should show you that he definitely knows what he's doing and isn't taking shortcuts by any means. He does a good job of fitting animu face on a super-realistic body.

When you've developed your art as much as Geister, it's no longer an issue of whether you're using references. I guarantee you an amateur couldn't produce something half as good as this if they blatantly traced a photograph.

That being said his art is not ~kawaii~ enough for me, Mota is my idol!

2nd one looks too much like cut from cardboard, at least medium part of her body.

Then 6th, nothing seems wrong but I can't watch it without thinking, that she has disjointed her left arm. Sure some people are flexible enough but it still looks painful.

Comment by Artefact 06:43 16/11/2009
Who cares as long as he is not plagiarising other people's illustrations? It possesses rather more artistic merit than most of what you will find in gallery of modern art.

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0_o shocking that you think photography is not on the same level as hand drawn work.

The previous comment is correct. Remember the Slam Dunk controversy?

It is one thing to use reference (a lot of people do that, and continue to do that) it is another to CLAIM work as your own, with no credit given to where you got the image from.

Great Job!
but... will have pics of chen, tewi, or udnoge?
remilia & sakuya pic it's great!

:'( http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/327999/bed-bra-geister-hoshino_aki-izayoi_sakuya-lingerie

Where are Sakuya's pads?

e__vampire?

Udonge's looking a bit too loli, I'd prefer her with bewbs...

His rendition of Sakuya is awesome, nonetheless.

I prefer the other two images of Sakuya compared to the first, especially the 2nd image of her which is just awesome.

It's still an incredible artwork even if he heavily uses photoreferences, i'd say that's also one way to work...

Looks so nice that it makes it hard for me to care that he traces everything.

interesting artwork~

...wasn't Geister highlighted in an earlier posts in sankaku already?

I like/

Reimu's ass, damnit all.

aya looks so sweet...

Sakuya's lovely as ever. Picture #2's a real killer.

Nice, I hadn't seen some of those before ^^

Absolutely awesome artist :) The colour is incredible!

sweet aya is sweet

I love the style of art work xD

it's official this guy is god

Oh he did the one w/ the vw beetle too. I didn't realize. Anyway, the second sakuya will always be my favorite.

such good art~
2nd and last picture are my favs

Better than other "artists" featured on this site, that's for sure.

too-hou-some

This is some damn good artwork.

the faces are ugly..

Trace or no trace?

looks more like the european way to draw then the japanese

Am I the only one that hates Touhou?

Nice work, correct me if im wrong but, this its what is called surrealism?