Touhou sparks too many creativity

I used to sleep at exactly 10 pm. every night, even on weekends. This ensure that I can sleep long enough and able to wake up around 5 or 6 am. without any ill merit. Waking up and sleeping this early give me the advantages of proper communications and interactions with perfectly diurnal people without dozing off in the middle of their conversations..

Touhou completely ruins my schedule, not because I play the games, but because I play with its soul.

Dramatization aside, it's a well-known fact that the Touhou project has over 13 games, over 70 characters, and just as many locations. It also have a sort-of backstory and personality, each one of them unique, for each and every single character. Sort of. There's not much canon backstory and personality shown, but Touhou is already like a community project where every fans participate with making the whole story. Sort of.

Nowadays, every time I play Touhou, or read about it, there's a sudden urge in me to draw fanarts, to create fanstories, to browse the internet for its fanremixes, to basically do something about it. I don't usually make fanworks, since my brain is heavy enough with ideas to supply me with art and story concept for decades to come. But for Touhou it's different. It pulls me into it, begging and crying for me to expand what short details we have about its characters, world, and stories into something bigger.       

Before I sleep, for some reason, that is the voice that speaks to me. So instead of letting myself into Dreamland, I would get up, get a piece of paper, a pencil, and doodle or write whatever. Sometimes it's not even anything to do with Touhou, but I know inside that it's somewhat influenced by it.

Then I ended up sleeping around midnight.


I already have about a dozen pages in my drawing book of Touhou fanart. Might scan it sometime. I also already have a couple thousands words logged in my computer for Touhou fanfic. Might show it sometime if I ever finished them. For now, here's some Photoshop results I made for it:

 

Nuclear Utsuho

Original artwork by U-Joe of deviantArt

Mystic Oriental Shrine Maiden

Original artwork by Silver Forest doujin circle

 

Marisa Kirisame

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Original game artwork for Touhou Scarlet Weather Rhapsody by alphes 

Flandre Scarlet

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Original artwork by marionette ex of deviantArt

I might use some brushes made by someone else there. No idea what or how or where. So if you somehow notice them and know where they come from, give me a call. If you're also the artist of the original artwork used in them and do not want these to be shown, also give me a call.