I made these two oni faces to mark the release of *The Great Book of Oni*, to go with my stalls, just like the red oni figurine. First, a few layers of extruded polystyrene. I glued two transparent plastic half-spheres onto these, having first painted the insides gold. Then I modelled the faces out of […]

I’ve wanted to make a decent-sized figurine depicting an oni – an ogre or demon as it’s usually portrayed in traditional tales – for quite some time. Follow the various stages of its production below. I started with a sturdy wire frame secured to a thick wooden plank, which actually happens to be a trivet

You often ask me how Tatchan – the dragon who accompanies me to conventions – is made. The original idea was to create a dragon that could be used as a prop to promote *The Great Book of the Ryû*, based on one of my illustrations of a Japanese dragon curled up into a ball.