Yōkai

Yōkai are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore. -Wikipedia

The kanji representation of the word yōkai comprises two characters that both mean "suspicious, doubtful", and while the Japanese name is simply the Japanese transliteration or pronunciation of the Chinese term yaoguai, some Japanese commentators argue that the word yōkai has taken on multiple different meanings particular to a Japanese context, including referring to a large number of uniquely Japanese creatures. -also Wikipedia

Yōkai are also referred to as ayakashi, mononoke or mamono. - Wikipedia is smart

However, most Japanese generally think of the two loose classes of spirits as highly different, although some academics and Shinto practitioners acknowledge similarities within the seeming dichotomy between the natures of them and most kami, which are generally regarded as relatively beneficent in comparison, and class the two as ultimately the same type of spirits of nature or of a mythological realm. - again that’s from Wikipedia

Well anyway that’s very interesting and all and thought it be a good introduction to my Yōkai drawing!

It is traditionally drawn with digital effects added. Originally I was going to just draw it digitally but something wrong with stylus pen. (Or maybe it’s me brain 🤣)

So moving on here are some of the steps I did mange to include.

Here is the tutorial I followed from the artist and author Danica Davidson seventeen step instruction drawing lesson book.

To get the effect here I used an app called Percolator Drip Mosaics by Tinrocket.

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