![☽[ 妖怪 Art Contest Entry]☾ - Jorōgumo](https://cdn2.scratch.mit.edu/get_image/project/469598451_480x360.png)
[ T h a n k s f o r 1 k !] I appreciate all of the support that I've received here! All information can be found inside the project, and remember to remix this project to enter :) 【space/ tap/ arrow keys to navigate between slides】 ▶Deadline is February 15th ========================================== ~As an update of sorts: I probably won't be making any fine art projects for a while now since I'll be focusing my efforts on a visual novel/ RPG series I've been working on. Of course this genre includes a huge selection of artwork displayed throughout scenes so don't worry! As of now, I'll try my best to get the trailer out as soon as possible. In the meantime, have fun creating some wonderful artwork! ----------------------------------------------------------------- /All art and code are mine ; /♪, Lone Wanderer- Tenno ; #art #contest #yokai
TabbNabber here! (I think i'm the first to do this yokai) {press space} So, I decided to do the Jorōgumo, which is a spider-woman yokai who seduces men and drains away their life force. She has many interpretations, so I made my own based off of myths and old paintings. My rendition of the Jorōgumo has the black widow marking as pupils, many other red eyes, pitch black hair, and a green mottled kimono. She also has spider thread strung tight between her blood-red claws. It's hard to see but I put the waterfall from a story in the background. The most popular story of the Jorogumo is as follows: At the Jōren Falls of Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, allegedly lives the jorōgumo mistress of the waterfall. The local legend tells of a man who rested beside the waterfall basin when the jorōgumo tried to drag him into the waterfall by throwing webs around his leg. The man transferred the webbing around a tree stump, which was dragged into the falls instead of him. After that, people of the village dared not venture close to the falls anymore. Then one day, a visiting woodcutter who was a stranger to this all tried to cut a tree and mistakenly dropped his favorite axe into the basin. As he tried to go down to fetch his axe back, a beautiful woman appeared and returned it to him. "You must never tell anyone what you saw here", she said. Initially he kept the secret, but as days went by, the need to spill the story burdened him. And finally at a banquet, while drunk, he told the whole story. Feeling unburdened and at peace, he went to sleep, but he never woke again. In another version, the woodcutter was pulled outside by an invisible string and his corpse was found floating the next day at the Jōren Falls. In yet another version, the woodcutter fell in love with a woman he met at the waterfall. He visited her every day, but grew physically weaker each time. The oshō of a nearby temple suspected that the woodcutter was "taken in by the jorōgumo mistress of the waterfall", and accompanied him to chant a sutra. When a spider thread reached out to the woodcutter, the oshō let out a thunderous yell, and the thread disappeared. Now knowing that the woman was actually a jorōgumo, the woodcutter still persisted and tried to gain permission for marriage from the mountain's tengu. When the tengu denied him the woodcutter ran towards the waterfall, where he was entangled by spider threads and disappeared into the water. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jor%C5%8Dgumo#The_J%C5%8Dren_Falls_of_Izu software: krita artwork: @TabbNabber
