Her design is strange, even by Touhou standards; she has raven wings on her back, a Sauron-like eye on her blouse, a control rod on her arm, and strange materials around her feet. Yet, her design has pros:

• Those characteristics make her recognizable and marketable to Touhou fans.

• A hodgepodge of design elements means that I do not need to integrate a photomanipulation.

• People unfamiliar with Touhou see the design as bizarre enough to be interpreted as modern art.

I had two challenges in front of me, given this decision:

• I had not before attempted photomanipulation. Thankfully, there is no restriction on the amount of time I could spend on this assignment, so I didn’t need to rush.

• My creativity would be limited to the resources I could borrow from; I no longer have ultimate freedom on a canvas if I want to make a suitable composition.

Product

I went to my bread-and-butter of Adobe Photoshop, and I used a collection of stock images from around the internet to piece together. In addition, I launched Autodesk Maya to make the geometry of Utsuho’s control rod. Here is the final product: