Tales of the Jorōgumo – Vol. 1

“He was deceived by her smile and drawn in by promises of pleasure and eternal peace. 🕸️
The Jorōgumo is a spider yōkai who shapeshifts into a beautiful woman, luring naive, able-bodied men into her web to satisfy an insatiable hunger. She nests in forests, caves, or forgotten homes—using charm and cunning intelligence to seduce and trap her prey. To her, humans are little more than insects.”

This piece marks the first entry in my “Tales of the Jorōgumo” series. Every illustration starts by hand —drawn with tsumi ink on watercolor paper or canvas, capturing that raw, organic motion in the flow of each line. Once scanned, I bring the sketch into Adobe Photoshop to refine line weight and experiment with color. From there, I vectorize it in Adobe Illustrator to prep it for screen printing onto shirts.

The process feels like a journey of its own—full of creative traps, mental detours, and unexpected breakthroughs. But I resist the seduction of procrastination… just like a wary traveler avoiding the Jorōgumo’s web.

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