
Touhou illustration master Geister returns with another captivating image, this time of Yukari Yakumo posing alluringly in bed.
There are some more of works to admire below, along with a spot of entertaining controversy:

Izayoi Sakuya and Remilia Scarlet.


More of him on the Channel, or on Pixiv.
In case you were interested, there is some drama concerning the original masterpiece we saw, which now happens to be the highest scoring image on the Channel:


Unsurprisingly, the image is based on a photo (or “traced” as the comparison is keen to point out); unsurprising as the knees in particular look to have been impossible to draw without a reference.
There are some significant improvements in the 2D version, but the usual noisy debate as to whether this is plagiarism or normal use of a photographic reference rages…
....excellent...
Good work.
Sankaku Complex sure is turning, little by little, into a pron site. I hope this doesn't aggravate even more.
what are you talking about, a lot of the first articles here were about lewd stuff.
"Little by little?"
Uh. Hate to break it to you, but it's been h-tastic for ages...
welcome to manhood boy ^^
What's wrong with pron?
moralfag or underagefag?
Neither. But when 8 out of 10 articles are about pron and only 2 have anything to do with news/anime/dolls/Japan at all...
I will be sure to up the doll content for you!
Sex doll content that is.... BWUAHAHAHAHAH!
I kind of agree though, also you might aswell not have an Anime section, as the hentai gets mixed in with that aswell.
fail to read sarcasm there...
WTF?? Masterful 2D illustrations no matter if ecchi or not were well within the scope, you could even say at the core of this site from the very beginning! And these are artful enough to not even qualify as porn anymore...
if I were to list a couple of my porn sites that I consider to be safe, sankaku would definitely be one of them.
you're new to this internet thing, aren't you?
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.
I agree, the first definitely used a reference like the Sakuya image. That doesn't mean I enjoy it any less of course...
It doesn't matter, the first pic has already given me the boner!FTW.
who cares if its plagiarism, awsome pics is awsome
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!
Referencing is one thing, straight copying is another. Many art schools will specifically discourage using pictures for figure studies because photographs will have already translated a 3 dimensional figure onto a 2 dimensional plane for you. That's half the task!
This isn't an art critique, but I think it's topical to point again that he fails to compensate for photographic distortion in perspective. That's an amateur mistake.
Not to say it doesn't take skill to do this, the artist certainly possesses more than the average. He doesn't hold a candle to contemporary masters though.
Contemporary masters are not drawing characters from Touhou unless I am mistaken?
Also, it seems unlikely the vast majority of such illustrators have ready access to 3D models, so it is not very understanding to critique them for this...
This is not a trace. You can clearly see there are a lot of anatomic differences between the two pics.
Most of the OG masters used models anyways, I don't see what's the big deal here.
That is one sexy image of Yukari but then again i much prefer the Sakuya one
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!
who is this yakumo?i only know school rumble yakumo.
and this yakumo is scary somehow
Yukari Yakumo, of Touhou.
There's a saying. Taking from one source is plagiarism. Taking from two is research. :)
I rely on this idea every day of my university course.
is it just me, or the knees are a little too far on the 2nd pic? ( the one with the 2 girls )
I don't see any resemblance between the picture and the photograph. You people are crazy.
Then you need to check it better :D anyway who cares...its a piece of art with a "live model"
If this is the problem then the word "art" havent a meaning to exist....
Amazing. I wanna know how to do that XD
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.
That's a silly argument. So if a drawing is 99% the same as the photo referenced, he didn't plagiarize? It's one thing to use a photo for reference but when your basically lifting the composition, pose, lighting, shading from a photo, that IS plagiarizing.
Is that Aki Hoshino? Can we get a high res of that pleaseeeeeeeee?????????
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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.
3D+2D+ART= BONER!
lol that^
seeing the last pic made me a little bit more confident
Confident in what? Fapping?
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...
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.
The one time when i'm not impartial to Touhou.
How anyone can think those pics look good is beyond me.
How anyone can think your opinion matters is beyond me.
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.
You sir, fail.
As does your sarcasm sensor.