Sake Not Even Drop

Back on track with these!  Next up are my otp Yuugi and Parsee of Subterranean Animism fame, also known by their Touhorse monikers, Knockout Drunk and Jellybean.  They were commissioned as a pair, so I tried to make them “interact” with each other through their expressions and height difference.  Thus the final products can be posed in two different scenarios; the two of them staring awkwardly into each others’ eyes, or Parsee looking annoyed because Yuugi is checking out her ass.  The possibilities are endless!

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She may not look it but Yuugipone was one of my more technically difficult customs.  For one thing, I had to alter her proportions to give her the larger stature I always draw her with.  I cut up and resculpted her face, legs, neck and midsection to make them all longer.  I didn’t have to re-pose her raised hoof, thank god; her body bait is the Twilight Sparkle that came with Yukari’s Celestia, which comes in a raised-hoof alternate pose.  Her head was based on a Pinkie head to get the right eye shape.

She was also difficult because of her massive sculpted hair.  I had the damndest time translating her hairstyle from drawing to 3D.  Especially since I’ve only done one other sculpt-hair custom before this batch…I think I need a little more practice before I reach OtakuSquirrel levels of hair sculpting. :P  I do like the little bit of movement suggested in her tail.

Again, a lot of the design comes from my headcanons about the actual Touhou…I did her horn as a kind of blade shape, flattish, a little curved, and coming to an edge in the front, rather than an even cone.  I interpreted her hair as being in two layers; a short one around her head and then a long one in the back, hence the little fauxhawk on her neck and the ruffle on top of her tail.  I don’t know how well that translated, but hey, it looks okay.

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Parsee was fun because she’s such a contrast to Yuugi, who is this big, vivacious, brilliant ogress while Parsee is a drab, soggy little bridge troll.  The only thing the poor girl has going for her are her intense green eyes, so I put a lot of loving care into them.  Like Yuugi I mixed and matched her head and body to get the right eye shape; her head is from Feathermay and her body is Pinkie’s.  Fortunately the batch after her called for a pegasus with a dehorned Twilight Sparkle head, so you see, all this headswapping worked out in the end!

I altered her bait as well, truncating the legs to emphasize her height difference with Yuugi and re-posing her ears to be pinned back in irritation.  I did one of those expression resculpts I am so fond of to give her mouth a little grimace of jealousy. Because what is Parsee without self-inflicted unhappiness?

Her hair was much easier to sculpt than Yuugi, but it is hilariously heavy. For both ponies, I broke them up into several sculpted components (in the case of Parsee’s hair, quite literally broke it up) and painted everything separately.  Then glued them back together, spread Apoxie over the seams, and painted it, with pretty good results!

Yuugi was surprised to be paid another visit by one of her old friends. The last time she’d heard from Suika it was through some kind of.. device. To see her in person made a lot of different emotions rise up all at once.

Still, she couldn’t be cruel to her Suika, regardless of how upset she could get about the whole situation. Reaching out, she offered the smaller oni her fist for a friendly bump.

“If ya want to, sure! The work’s been going pretty smoothly, though the others aren’t really used to staying on task as much as they used to. Guess we’ve gotten a little soft down here.” Herself excluded, of course, as she winked and pounded a fist against her abs to demonstrate.

“Is that a man eating spider? Why is that girl in a bucket?” Renko asked between jumps, slightly frightened but more curious about the residents of the cave.

With the two of them on the surface and no longer moving. Renko stepped away from the Oni and gave a slight bow.

“Thank you for getting me out of there. I’m not going to say I owe you my life or anything, but I feel a need to thank you. Next time I’m around, maybe I could do something for you.”

With that Renko straightens her back and puts her hands akimbo. She gives a huff in thought.

Yuugi placed her hands on ehr hips and smiled down at Renko as she moved away. Lifting her shoulder in a shrug, she gave the human a thumbs-up.

“Sounds good to me, but don’t worry about it too much. I’m just glad we got you out of there before there was some kind of incident. You should be alright up here.. we try to keep hostile youkai away from the entrance, so the only ones you might run into are people looking to move down here or visit.”

Turning, Yuugi would make her way back towards the entrance. 

Yuuparu commission for yollm

Yuugi was surprised to be paid another visit by one of her old friends. The last time she’d heard from Suika it was through some kind of.. device. To see her in person made a lot of different emotions rise up all at once.

Still, she couldn’t be cruel to her Suika, regardless of how upset she could get about the whole situation. Reaching out, she offered the smaller oni her fist for a friendly bump.

At the mention of her other friends, her face brightened up a bit more. “Oh, really?? I wonder how the others are doin’?” She asked Yuugi but didn’t bother waiting for an answer as the need to see them again grew stronger. 

“Yeah, yeah. Just feel lucky that I’m willing to lug you around.”