This is technically a making-of post, although I'm really just reposting the WIP images I shared on Twitter. I felt like drawing a Japanese-inspired creature again after quite a while, so I decided to create something based on an Inugami, a dog spirit from Japanese folklore. ＝＝＝ ツイッターにアップしてたwipをそのままここに掲載しているだけですけど、一応メイキングです。久しぶりに和風クリーチャーを描きたくなったので犬神をモチーフにクリーチャーっぽいものを描こうと思いました。 Rough sketch and preliminary drawing / ラフ兼下描き First, I threw in all the things I love: a huge mouth,

Creatures of EdoAberrations / EdoAberrationsのクリーチャー The next theme I started exploring after amusement parks was Japanese-inspired creatures. It's easy to come up with ideas based on Japanese yokai and ghosts, but turning those ideas into creature designs was a little challenging. I could have made them grotesque by adding masses of flesh, just like I did with my amusement park creatures, but I wanted people to take one look at them and immediately think, "Oh, this looks Japa

Creatures from WHERE LAUGHTER SANK / WHERE LAUGHTER SANKのクリーチャー The amusement park-themed creatures shown above were the first designs I started working on. When people think of horror games set in amusement parks, mascot horror is probably the first thing that comes to mind. However, I wanted to create something much more grotesque, fleshy, and unsettling—creatures that feel completely out of place in an amusement park. That's how I ended up with the designs you see above. E