/jp/ - Otaku Culture

- Learn to draw
- Make your own doujinshi, free of the limitations of a collaborative doujinshi
- Go to Comiket
- ???
- No profit, because you're a disgusting gaijin.

I wish you could draw, because the sad part about this whole mess is that every western artist is trying to get in on this thing regardless of whether they actually like the Aki sisters or not, just because they're so excited by the notion of something of theirs showing up in GLORIOUS NIPPON.

It's shit, just like another dream.

>>2296673
/jp/ writer's quality is far superior

You could just write you know, they're looking for writers to do a short novel thing too.

>>2296699
I don't know you, but writing is harder than drawing

>>2296707

But I can write and can't draw worth shit.

Maybe my expectations for myself are too high. I don't want to try making a doujinshi with them until I'm absolutely sure that I can properly portray every single aspect of them exactly how I envision it in my mind. It would be very upsetting to myself if I shamed the sisters' name with my shitty drawing and writing.

>>2296713
Can you write good? I don't mean any shit, I mean something GOOD.
Think about this, you can draw right? everyone can, what changes is the quality of it. Now, drawings are easier to judge, they don't require time to do so. But writing is a whole different thing, you can write shit that looks good because everyone is actually more forgiving with it, since you can just hide your crap with good rhetoric and shit.

>>2296647

>>2296727

I dunno, define "good". I've gotten praise for my writing before from teachers and professors and I've won awards before, but I have no plans of writing a book or being a professional author or anything. I wrote the Alice miscarriage story and that was an off the cuff thing, I think my writing comes out much better with even a little more preparation.

>>2296743
AoC?

>>2296751
Well uhhhhh, are you good at math?

>>2296699
OP here, I'm bad at both. I think I'm pretty much hosed no matter what I do. I can't make music either.

>>2296754

No.

>>2296757
ok

>>2296757
Well either way, I think that just good.
The problem with western fanbase is the fact that too many untalented people want to do something, unlike Japan and such.
Gathering talented people is important if we want to break the gaijin barrier, the art shown by /jp/'s anons has been quite good, add good writers, effort and guts, and we get a good doujin that won't stink to gaijin fanfiction or fanart.

You need to let your love for the sisters drive you to artistic excellence. Make a promise in your heart to them, and keep studying the art of doujinshi-ing and drawing until you can finally fulfill your dream.

Depending on where you're at right now and how much motivation you have, you might be able to make your doujinshi in a couple years...

At the very least, you can be very certain that you'll be the only one that cares about the Aki sisters then, instead of the half-assed love that will be spawned by the current doujinshi collaboration.

>>2296781
I want to be able to write and draw well. I want the whole doujinshi to be driven by my love only.

Write out an idea.
Get someone else to draw it.

I feel bad for this, most of the hard work is on the artist after all. But seriously, if you have decent writing skills and a good idea I think it would be best to take one of the spots writing the "novel" they're asking for.

>>2296783
At least most of the halfhearted attempts are staying out of applying for now. How I shudder to see comments like "I'll see what I can do" linked to a 14-year-old's dA with godawful mspaint images.

Not that I can say anything, I can't even do a decent stick figure...

Anyway, I know some of the writers here don't even know everything about tohuou, what's up with that?

>>2296831
>>2296801
>I want to be able to write and draw well. I want the whole doujinshi to be driven by my love only.
Looks like in the end, it will have to be something I work hard for over a long duration of time.

>>2296842
What?

>>2296842
Personally, it's that I was disheartened at losing time and time again in IN a few years back.
It's hard to learn every detail of such a huge cast of characters anyway, specially when fanon and canon collide. It's taken me a while, but I now know at the very least the story in the games and the personality of most of the girls. Still get confused at times recognizing the ignored ones, but I try.

I can write fairly well, but there are so many ideas that would show up that much better in drawings..

>>2296853
What's the deal with artistic license?

>>2296856
>It's hard to learn every detail of such a huge cast of characters anyway, specially when fanon and canon collide.
More like when canon and canon collide.

>>2296865
Not to mention that more than a few of us have not seen all the endings to the Touhou games.

>>2296866
Little did you know.....

Changed the idea of the calendar with an ongoing frame of a tree losing its leafs and the sun setting behind. Works better visually and it's not so much "dumbed down for your viewing pleasure"
Getting done with the rough draft for the artist to polish and improve.
Can't even draw a tree for fucksake...

>>2296884
Shiiiiiiiit, you suuuuuck.

Seriously though, I don't understand anything at all.
Also, why the spoilers? you know the show more than they hide.

>>2296892
I didn't actually mean the you suck part

>>2296866
I never understood why we can't have access to all the endings scripts, not even in the wiki.

>>2296892
Because I'm not done, wanted to share what I was doing with page one but not push it on anyone's face.

It serves a a companion for the actual script to get the idea better to the artist. But I'm afraid the fact I can't do a fucking stick figure gets on the way of that.

>>2296895
Yes you did. I know I suck, that's why I stick to writing. All I can hope for is that the visuals turn as good as they play out in my head.

>>2296884

Just keep practising bro. Either that or adopt a "style" that hides your massive deficiencies.

>>2296910

Because ZUN said so.

>>2296939
That's....that's not fair

>>2296647
>>2296667
What thing?

>>2296946
http://reine-musik.com/pub/aki/

>>2296943
Anyway, from all the endings I've seen, I'd say I don't miss much with the others

>>2296947
What the hell does Columbia think he's going to do?

>>2296992
It's Colombia

We need a banner, now

>>2296992
>That's the thing, I'm not completely confident of my idea.
>Here's what I wrote him:

>>For now, the idea circling my mind is fairly slice of life, to illustrate snippets of the sisters' daily life trying to enjoy themselves as much as they can during the Autumn months before Letty arrives. They don't resent it, just accept it as part of life. Every day they rip a page of a calendar and see it slowly grow thin.
>>Melancholy fills them as they realize that their fun will be over soon, so they held a big cookout, baking potatoes for everyone in Gensokyo. In the end, Letty, looking as if she just woke up, comes near to have some baked potato too. The sisters give him one, grinning happily, and rejoin the party. Maybe the last frame can be the last hanging dark leave from an almost nude tree, standing in contrast with the moon, and the smoke of the cooking.

>Had to go to shrinemaiden to get more details, and I hate that. Anyway, seems I have 6 manga pages to work with. I'm thinking big setting page, 3 following pages with ongoing adventures, each one focusing on a friend, mostly Stage 1-2 bosses. Each page ends with a panel of the thinning calendar.
>Last two pages would be the cooking scene. High contrast, lots of shadows. Maybe make it a double page spread to fit most of the cast around a big darkened pot.

>>2296992
With an o, spell the name with an o for crying out loud...
And I'm doing what you've been seeing. Got an outline, got a decent artist, having trouble doing that storyboard thing he asked me.
I think its good as a mood piece, not much of an actual story or conflict, but if pulled off right, it can be something one can be proud of.

>>2297011
Working on that, along with a proper circle name. Intend to correct the submission data in the following days.

Remember they're gods

I think you should give it a shot. /jp/ has some pretty good writers and we need to show the world that we're capable of so much more, that the shrinemaiden crowd doesn't represent us, and that we are fit to belong in comiket.
Make us proud.

>>2297184

But the shrinemaiden crowd is so much more numerous and obnoxious. It's like trying to be heard over a crowd of Britney Spears clones.

Thinking about what international collaboration could bring to a project about the Aki sisters has led me to mull over what represents autumn to me personally, and about differences in what is quintessentially 'autumn'. As an inhabitant of the Western end of the 49th parallel of North America, 'autumn' makes me think of raking leaves and jumping in the piles. Of Jack-o-Lanterns, firecrackers and sunny days where the dew makes my bare feet numb and the air nips at my lungs. Never having lived anywhere but here and Japan, I don't know what 'autumn' looks like to other people.

I don't think it would make a very good doujinshi (barring very specific execution, which I am not capable of), so I'm not suggesting this as an idea for one... but I can't stop wondering. I know it's a bit kindergarten, but I want to hear about autumn in other places. If I pretended this was a doujinshi idea, would people tell me about what autumn is to them?

tl;dr: What does autumn look like where you live?

>>2297236
I've never seen any seasons in my life

>>2297427
Where the fuck do you live?

Who?

Never heard of them.

>>2297236
As long as it has "Happy Halloween for Marisa"...

>>2297596
Tropic

Do a 4koma series using Walfas screenshots and photoshop.

Neither have I experienced any seasons other than "rainy" and "hot".

>>2296647

I remember a time where Yuka pictures where rare, and hard come by. But since Pixiv exists Yuka has risen to be japanese Touhou #9. I'm happy.

I can draw, and I like them touhoes, but the idea of having to draw Aki sisters makes my dick shrivel. What is there to tell about them? One of them has squiggly patterns and a manjaw that would make Bruce Campbell ashamed, and the other... Bleh.

>>2298486
>>2296733

>>2298483
Well, you see, Yuka is awesome

Yuka

>>2298503
Wow, i cant believe it. It's really good.

>>2298509
Don't worry. It's shopped a million times by a dozen of professionals.

>>2298509
It is, except for the umbrella.

Not shopped.

>>2298503
That Mokou is actually guy, damn

>>2298523
Looks good anyway

>>2298524
Yup (top left)

>>2298535
I like it better unshopped

>>2298539
Oh.

>>2298535
>.jpg..jpg

Where the hell is my Renko cosplay?

That Yuka is actually pretty damn good.

Too right. She brought a friend.

>>2298958
What's with this Yuka, she doesn't look menacing or scary at all.

>>2298980
Yuka also sometimes looks moe. Non-menacing moe.

I think that /jp/ is the right place to get a good submission going. We have good writers and artists, we only have to bring them together.
So, if you're interested in drawing but don't have a story, and if you have a good idea but can't draw, then post. A collaborative effort that can shadow whatever the rest do.

I need to find more pictures of this event.

Ojou-sama uu~

>>2298460
>>2298481
Delineating the seasons by weather is one of the differences I was thinking of. I was hoping that Autumn would have some other significant events/characteristics by which to set it apart.