How to Draw Japan
Yokai & Festival Characters — 100 Characters in 6 Steps
Series: How to Draw Japan
- AuthorAki Wakamatsu
- PublisherTakikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC
- CategoryHow to Draw
- ISBN1990000159152
- FormatEPUB ebook
About this book
100 YOKAI & FESTIVAL CHARACTERS. 6 STEPS EACH. 600 STEP-BY-STEP DRAWINGS.
A kappa is not just "a frog person" — and a tengu nose is not just "a long nose." This book draws the spirit world the step-by-step way.
Every character starts as a plain circle and grows one honest layer at a time: construction guides, face outline, features, hair and dress — and only then, in Step 4, the yokai feature itself: horns, antlers, wings, a tail, fin ears, a third eye, the kappa's dish of water balanced dead level. Nothing moves between steps — the face you draw in Step 2 is the exact face you colour in Step 6.
In Step 5 the festival arrives: taiko drums, mikoshi carrying poles, fox masks, gourds, magic mallets, bells and fireworks lanterns.
Inside: 20 mountain & forest yokai · 20 river, sea & rain yokai · 15 house & town tsukumogami · 15 festival spirits & lucky yokai · 15 festival people & performers · 15 chibi yokai & festival folk.
And after every character: a practice page. Trace the faint guide, then draw your own version in the empty frame. 100 characters, 100 practice pages.
Spooky-cute, never horror — real folklore, drawn friendly. The companion volumes teach general anime characters and samurai & kimono; this volume is 100% yokai and festival. All you need is a pencil and an eraser.
