#youkai girls

“Veil“ - Quick doodle on Procreate and edited on PS. Originally wanted to draw more visible patterns on kimono but after tweaking colors a lot, it kinda got lost. I’ve been really trying to explore more color combo compared to my past where I only did paint bucket coloring but now I play around with gradient map a lot. Also right now I’m liking the vintage vibe by adding noise texture, applying RGB effect and choosing retro desatured neon color palette. It’s fun. 

Listening to : Keina Suna - veil 

“Youkai Girls“ - for Giant Robot Gallery’s “NANA” show. Original was black & white with red copic accent.  I wanted to emerge more youkainess with street fashion. I enjoyed it so much I wanna make it into more series collection. 

Youkai is mostly referenced from Sekien Toriyama’s Hyakki Yagyo series and ukiyo-e artist Kuniyoshi Utagawa’s youkai illustrations. Recently I also see a lot of anime / Japanese culture inspired street fashion trend which I think its cool but I personally wanted to bring it to next level. So I researched in more depth about youkai & myth creatures & traditional Japanese tattoos that I can incorporated in design. I’m happy with the overall result, but I think I want to work on drawing more variety on clothes materials and styles. More close up and high quality images are on my Behance. 

Listening to : Fantastoc Youth Meledy