Oil Painter, Freelance Illustrator, and Graphic Designer

Welcome to my new online home! Here you can find my latest paintings revolving around my travels to Japan and my passion for yokai. I worked for years as a freelance artist in the tabletop gaming industry creating fantasy character illustrations for a variety of role playing games and am now on a new journey focused on traditional painting and building a new collection of personal work.

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Lance Red seated on a stool wearing a straw hat and red plaid shirt
Portrait of artist Lance Red wearing a straw hat and red plaid shirt
Detail of a Namahage painting showing a fierce red-faced ogre with a shaggy straw mane, by Lance Red
Lance Red's hand painting fine details on a colorful illustration of a figure in a patterned kimono
Kappa oil study painting of green kappa yokai around a daruma doll, displayed on an easel, by Lance Red
Painting of Wanyudo, a fiery demon face in a flaming wooden wheel, by Lance Red
Lance Red painting a yokai illustration at an easel in his studio

'Yokai Bestiary: How to Draw Eerie and Enchanting Japanese Ghosts and Monsters'

A fun learning-to-draw book through which I share my passion for yokai mythology and walk you through drawing a wide variety of yokai creatures. Yokai are supernatural creatures and
monsters from Japanese folklore and tradition. Before diving into drawing I share a little origin story for each yokai and where they come from in Japanese culture.

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Yokai Bestiary: How to Draw Eerie and Enchanting Japanese Ghouls and Monsters book cover by Lance Red
Pencil sketch detail of a yurei ghost woman being drawn, by Lance Red
Lineup of yokai monster illustrations including a kappa, lantern ghost, cat, snake woman, and umbrella yokai, by Lance Red
Painting of green kappa yokai gathered around a daruma doll in a mossy forest, by Lance Red

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