Dai Touhouten Recreations and Info

On this page, I'll usually discuss and show recreations of art shown at the Dai Touhouten exhibitions. I never went to the exhibition myself, so I used other recreations I found to piece together details and make some stuff more accurately.

Most art shown is partially traced in some way, but it's mostly for accuracy (And for fun).

Rumia (Sketch)

This is the one I found the most recreations of, so it's probably pretty accurate to the original sketch.

Anyways, Rumia wears shoes in her sketch. Rumia also has a belt in her sketch unlike her digitally colored portrait art.

For whatever reason, her right hand is clenched instead of being open like her left hand in the sketch.

In the corner of her original sketch, ZUN wrote "紅皮郷1面ボヌ
間の妖怪ルーミア" (I didn't include it in mine because I didn't want to butcher the japanese writing). From all the recreations I've found, no date was written on the sketch.

Also, the translation didn't make sense.

Doll's In Pseudo Paradise CD Label/Labelko (Sketch)

This was one of the harder ones to recreate, as ZUN put a lot of details in the original colored art. The main inaccurate part of my recreation is the frills.

Anyways, the most notable part about the original sketch is that there's strings attached to the right and left arm, and feet.

Aside from that, the sketch shows that Labelko doesn't wear socks nor shoes (This is probably one the only times ZUN has drawn actual feet).

If you're wondering what the top left text says, it roughly translates to "Hourai Doll Illustration" (The one time the translation made sense).

Alice Margatroid (Original PCB Sketch)

(I wasn't able to scan this one, so I used an old camera to take a photo of it because I wanted to). The year on the camera was incorrectly set, so it says 2024 instead of 2026.

The top part of image is traced over a September 2003 issue of a 18+ magazine called "Colorful PUREGIRL" which featured a portion of Alice's actual original sketch drawn by ZUN for PCB.

Unfortunately, the lower half is cropped out of the photo in the magazine, so I had to trace over the final portraits used in PCB (And the portrait in the PCB music room). There's not many differences other than a few lines being changed.

There was a ton of japanese writing on the right including a drawing on the left side of Alice that couldn't be fully seen in the photo from the magazine (I also just didn't want to butcher the japanese writing ^_^,).

Also, ZUN actually wrote the date he made this on the original sketch. Only the day and month was included, but it was definitely drawn in February 11th of 2002 (Saying this because the first trial version of PCB released that year).

(Credits to @Majic_of_Life on Twitter for posting a high quality photo of the magazine page featuring the sketch).

Hong Meiling (Sketch)

This is the 2nd time I've had to remake this sketch (The first one was HORRIBLY inaccurate). The date was also incorrectly set on my camera for this photo aswell.

Anyways, I've had this one finished for a long while, but I haven't had the time to write about it until now.

Now...

I wasn't able to find a single actual recreation of the sketch other than one being slightly seen behind one of the papers in the recreations from the source I used for the Labelko recreation (Which was horribly inaccurate in every way).

Because of that, I had to resort to using a recreation of Meiling's fullbody portrait based off the sketch shown at the exhibition (Credits to @Majic_of_Life again)

In all recreations I've found based off the original sketch, she seems to be holding her skirt while bringing out her middle finger... for some reason?

She also seems to be wearing a bracelet in all of the recreations I've found as well. Other than that, there's no other notable differences other than the fact the entire body being shown.

(Also, I didn't write the text that was on her hat and skirt due to me fearing that I would butcher the writing).

More to be made in the near future...

To be added: Cirno, C62 Circle Cut Girl (NOT RIN SATSUKI), and Prismriver-like girl.

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