More Touhou ZUN art outside of the games?

[Angelulu004]

Hi, good morning / afternoon / evening / night, I would like to know about the existence of more official art done by ZUN of the Touhou characters outside the games, and if they exist, where can I find them? i found this site which is really great source to find all the art ZUN made for the games, also including the ones he made outside the games and their cover arts and albums (also thanks to it I accidentaly discovered Marisa, Reimu and Yuuka and the art he made for them in Seihou), but I don't know if the collection in that site really includes all of his external art or if it's even intended to, would especially like to know about art he made in the 90s / PC-98 era as I can't find anything else other than the cover arts for the 5 games and the very few art available in that site, which could be because that's all that there is to it, or it exists more but it's rare. I don't know and I'm sure the veterans know a lot more than me.
So if you know about more external Touhou ZUN art that is not in the site I linked above, please share it, it's very important for a project I'll be working on.

 

[SateriCat17]

Hi, good morning / afternoon / evening / night, I would like to know about the existence of more official art done by ZUN of the Touhou characters outside the games, and if they exist, where can I find them? i found this site which is really great source to find all the art ZUN made for the games, also including the ones he made outside the games and their cover arts and albums (also thanks to it I accidentaly discovered Marisa, Reimu and Yuuka and the art he made for them in Seihou), but I don't know if the collection in that site really includes all of his external art or if it's even intended to, would especially like to know about art he made in the 90s / PC-98 era as I can't find anything else other than the cover arts for the 5 games and the very few art available in that site, which could be because that's all that there is to it, or it exists more but it's rare. I don't know and I'm sure the veterans know a lot more than me.
So if you know about more external Touhou ZUN art that is not in the site I linked above, please share it, it's very important for a project I'll be working on.

As far as I know of, except for maybe something he did a very long time ago, there are no public non-Touhou (and Seihou) artworks which ZUN has released.
I mean, ZUN's personal life itself nearly as a whole is a mystery outside of his work on Touhou.

 

[SateriCat17]

As far as I know of, except for maybe something he did a very long time ago, there are no public non-Touhou (and Seihou) artworks which ZUN has released.
I mean, ZUN's personal life nearly as a whole is a mystery outside of his work on Touhou.

He made a few artworks very early on, some of which are ambiguously related to Touhou, but there really isn't much else to my knowledge.

 

[Angelulu004]

@SateriCat17 just to make it clear though that what I'm looking for is his Touhou related art, not outside of the series. What I specifically want is the art he did for the series but outside the games and cover arts, and so far, I could only find those arts in the Touhou Memories site.

 

[SateriCat17]

@SateriCat17 just to make it clear though that what I'm looking for is his Touhou related art, not outside of the series. What I specifically want is the art he did for the series but outside the games and cover arts, and so far, I could only find those arts in the Touhou Memories site.

Ah. So you mean like the ones he's drawn at different events and such?
If that's the case, have you checked the Touhou Wiki? They have at least a handful of the artworks he's drawn for such events.
Though, I'm not sure how much more they'd have in comparison to Touhou Memories, as that site seems almost as thorough at documenting different Touhou-related stuff as the Touhou Wiki itself.

 

[SateriCat17]

Ah. So you mean like the ones he's drawn at different events and such?
If that's the case, have you checked the Touhou Wiki? They have at least a handful of the artworks he's drawn for such events.
Though, I'm not sure how much more they'd have in comparison to Touhou Memories, as that site seems almost as thorough at documenting different Touhou-related stuff as the Touhou Wiki itself.

Still though, looking at the site, I definitely can see that they have a lot of the artworks missing from some of what I've seen before (whether I'm remembering from the Touhou Wiki or somewhere else is something I'm not too sure of though).

 

[Angelulu004]

I checked the Miscellaneous Illust by ZUN page of the Wiki and indeed there are some art there not present in Touhou Memories. Though there are some also in Touhou Memories missing from the wiki in vice versa like you said. Still, already a big help, thank you! Only wonder if there are more out there, they say the latest discovery (PC-98 era related) is extermely rare, so I fear a lot of his art especially from that era of the series became lost media...

 

[Idkism]

Thank God he doesn't grace us with his kuso for things other than the games/music art

 

[SateriCat17]

I checked the Miscellaneous Illust by ZUN page of the Wiki and indeed there are some art there not present in Touhou Memories. Though there are some also in Touhou Memories missing from the wiki in vice versa like you said. Still, already a big help, thank you! Only wonder if there are more out there, they say the latest discovery (PC-98 era related) is extermely rare, so I fear a lot of his art especially from that era of the series became lost media...

There are probably dozens of his old artwork which has become lost media. As far as I know of, there are at least a couple artworks that were on ZUN's website which may be lost media.
There's also the original artworks he did for Rin Satsuki and Daiyousei which were never released to the public to my knowledge.

 

[Angelulu004]

There are probably dozens of his old artwork which has become lost media. As far as I know of, there are at least a couple artworks that were on ZUN's website which may be lost media.
There's also the original artworks he did for Rin Satsuki and Daiyousei which were never released to the public to my knowledge.

Yeah i found out about that these days, and that one about Dayousei. Which might imply that he also made art of all the other midbosses, and we won't see them :T
(I don't think we can blame him though as he very likely doesn't have the art anymore as well)

 

[vanyk]

I am not sure if this will help you, but there is ZUN art category on THB Wiki which has a lot of arts outside of the games and covers. Of course, most of arts in this category are from games but it is simpler to find ZUN artworks outside of the games this way.
There may be more ZUN arts and autographs on Twitter posted by Japanese fans, but it is difficult to find them. A lot of ZUN's arts on Touhou Memory is from Twitter.
By the way, I found this ZUN art some time ago. I think it is not well-known. (I don't remember how I found it. I think someone retweeted it and that is how I saw it. I am pretty sure there may be more photos like this on Twitter)

Spoiler: Art

 

[Angelulu004]

I am not sure if this will help you, but there is ZUN art category on THB Wiki which has a lot of arts outside of the games and covers. Of course, most of arts in this category are from games but it is simpler to find ZUN artworks outside of the games this way.
There may be more ZUN arts and autographs on Twitter posted by Japanese fans, but it is difficult to find them. A lot of ZUN's arts on Touhou Memory is from Twitter.
By the way, I found this ZUN art some time ago. I think it is not well-known. (I don't remember how I found it. I think someone retweeted it and that is how I saw it. I am pretty sure there may be more photos like this on Twitter)

Spoiler: Art

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I think mixed with the game art it's harder honestly, but thank you for sharing that page anyway! And indeed i couldn't find that art in neither sites, so it has to be of the rarer ones, thank you, if you find or remember of more share them here, I almost never use SNS to find this kind of media, so I highly appreciate.