If there’s one game that has had a massive impact over the past twelve months, it’s Genshin Impact. It released for Android, iOS, PlayStation consoles, and is expected to release on the Nintendo Switch. When the game launched, it was downloaded 17 million times. It’s no doubt that the game’s sprawling open world, cel-shaded art style, and anime characters have attracted many players.
The onslaught of frequent, addictive, and rewarding side quests and content, as well as the gacha mechanics, draw players in, keeping them playing for items and currency in an attempt to nab their favorite character and make them stronger in combat. Recently, the character Ganyu was released, and she’s been making waves all over social media. Fans have fallen in love with Ganyu thanks to her unique design and aesthetics. Here are a few pieces of incredible Ganyu fan art done by artists in the community.
10 Sweet Rain
Ganyu’s name is Chinese, and translates to “sweet rain,” as this artist has captioned their fan art. By using soft, muted, cool colors, and some smart lighting, this fan art is calming to look at.
Ganyu is a quiet and serene character, and this art does a great job in getting that mood across in both her expression as well as the background and overall color choice. Her color palette also comes together nicely, with the gold of her bell and the red of her horns adding some fantastic contrast.
9 Ganyu With A Braid
A common and much loved trend in fan art is to take a simple aspect of a character, such as their clothes or hair, and to alter it a bit. It can be like playing dress-up and always makes characters more varied and makes the art more fun for the artist and other fans.
This artist has drawn Ganyu with her long blue hair done into a luscious braid. It looks cuter and the fluffiness of the hair adds personality to both the character and the art.
8 Ganyu Resting Under The Shade
The environment in an artwork can tell a whole story. Similar to how fan art can be used to change a character’s clothes or hairstyle, the environment drawn in the art can be used to tell a story about the character.
In this fan art, Ganyu is resting under the shade of a tree. This is a great image because Genshin Impact is am open world game focused on exploration, so the thought of the character taking a moment to rest in such a huge world feels peaceful and calming.
7 Teatime For Ganyu
Chibi characters and drawings are really popular, for a lot of reasons. They’re cute and they allow for the exaggeration of a character’s features and accessories. Here is an adorable fan art of Ganyu where she is a small chibi character next to a slice of blueberry pie.
This fan art stands out because of its soft colors but also because it plays with the sense of scale, putting a tiny Ganyu next to a large slice of dessert to emphasize how small and precious she is.
6 Sparkly And Soft
The caption for this fan art refers to Ganyu being mistaken by Qiqi, another character in the game, as a “Cocogoat.” It’s clear that Ganyu’s design alludes to goats as well. She has a bell accessory around her neck and horns on her head because she is part Qilin. The thick lines surrounding the art make it cohesive and bring the soft, swirling colors together.
In Genshin Impact, Ganyu is a Cyro user, and the medley of colors used in this art seem to allude to something that could be both sweet and cold, such as ice cream, which would be a fitting treat for her.
5 Ganyu In Combat
There are a variety of attack moves in Genshin Impact. Normal attacks are the most commonly used, and over time and through other methods, Elemental skills and Elemental Bursts can be charged up and used to deal massive amounts of damage and trigger elemental reactions.
In this art, Ganyu is using her Elemental Burst skill, Celestial Shower, to summon an icy pearl. This pearl rains down shards of ice onto enemies, dealing continuous Cryo damage. The movement of the piece is impressive and really gets the feeling of Ganyu’s power across.
4 Ganyu With Qingxin Flowers
Fans of Ganyu and Genshin Impact may have noticed that fan art of her often contains a specific type of flower. That flower, which she’s seen holding here too, is the Qingxin Flower seen in Genshin Impact’s world.
In the game, materials are foraged, including minerals and plants. Qingxin flowers commonly grow on high peaks in the Liyue region and are useful for crafting. According to character information in the game, Ganyu actually enjoys eating Qingxin flowers, which is certainly strange, but perhaps oddly endearing.
3 Ganyu’s Elemental Burst
This fan art shows off Ganyu’s Elemental Burst attack again, swirling into a massive, pearly ball of ice in her hands. This fan art captures Ganyu in movement again, with her hair and clothing flowing like water.
With Ganyu’s varied move set, players have some options when it comes to building her as a viable unit for their party. She can be built as a frontline DPS fighter with her charge shot bow that deals freezing damage to surrounding enemies, or as a support character used primarily for her Elemental Burst skill.
2 Rolling For Ganyu
Sometimes, when a new character is about to be released into a game, especially a gacha, fan artists will draw the upcoming character and suggest that focusing on that character in their art will improve the odds of rolling them. There are countless memes about this, and sometimes, players will even fashion “summoning circles” in their home for the joke and superstition.
In this beautiful fan art, Ganyu is once again holding Qingxin flowers (and maybe looking at them hungrily), bringing the art together and threading in some of the character’s personality while at it.
1 Welcoming Ganyu To Genshin Impact
Another art with a lovely composition, this fan art welcome Ganyu to the massive and exciting world of Genshin Impact. Ganyu’s character is from the game’s region of Liyue, which is inspired by China. The artist illustrates Ganyu’s Liyue background, with the motif and design around her being inspired by the Liyue region.
Ganyu is also showing off her Cryo abilities here, creating an ice flower and ice shards with her hand. Artists and other fans have welcomed Ganyu and her beautiful design into the game with open arms, embracing her play style and personality.
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