The Portrait

Yes, I had defined suspicions before, but now it is clear our scanner hates me and I have no clue why it the colour of my first black pen is blue, mostly that even the label on it and on paper it is black. Well at least for the portrait part this messed up scanning looks fitting...

Any way this is a picture made for the Youkai contest jisuk is holding: Yokai ContestDesign a Yokai Contest
Hey everyone! I’m holding a contest for Karasu where you can design your own yokai. I will draw the winning designs into the above sketch so they can have dinner with everyone at Urameshiya. Heh ehheh.
Deadline: March 2, 2015 (Monday)
Prizes
1st/2nd place: Spots A and B on the above drawing (and a mini print of the final)
3rd: Postcard and stickers
4th: Postcard
Details
Design a yokai character! Please use existing types so it follows proper Japanese mythology (eg: oni, yuki-onna, etc).
Types of yokai: Yokai.com /

When I first read through the contest I was planning to attempt drawing a Yuki-onna, but after two days of planning I kind of thought that probably a number of people might choose her and I'm really not that good with drawing humans so me and drawing a beautiful woman? That will take even more time so I ended up choosing one of my favs from Japanese folklore, the Kuchisake Onna. As you can see she is getting her painting taken by an Oni in a cave while two curious Hitodama give light in the dark for the painter.

By the hand I was doing the picture while I held a paint brush in my left hand and was looking at it while drawing only with my right hand (the model of the paintbursh and the writing on it were all taken from the brush I got as a present from my Chinese teacher who also gives me Calligraphy lessons). Ah yes, neraly forgot her name is Akane.