Edition I · Two bindings

The
Ink
Dragon

U G Morihara

Over 150 panels in ink-wash and screentone. Then twenty-five pages of open frames, and the brush is yours.

Front cover of The Ink Dragon: an ink dragon erupts from a scroll as a robed apprentice recoils and a masked thief lunges with a blade in a wooden temple hall.

The book

Half a story. Half a sketchbook.

A hero’s journey in over 150 panels of ink-wash and screentone. Haru grinds ink until an ancient dragon rises from it; together they face a masked thief wearing his old master’s face, to win back the village’s sacred Seal Stone. Twenty-three of the sixty-one story pages carry a caption; the rest are told in pictures alone.

Behind the last panel, the story ends and twenty-five pages of open frames begin, in twenty-two distinct layouts — splash pages, diagonal panels, four-panel action. Each page prints single-sided, so the back stays clean no matter how hard the pencil presses.

Don’t draw the dragon. Let it draw itself.
  • TitleThe Ink Dragon
  • AuthorU G Morihara
  • ImprintKagemori Press
  • Pages120
  • Story150+ panels · 61 pages
  • ArtInk-wash & screentone
  • Open frames25 pages · 22 layouts
  • PrintingSingle-sided — your ink stays on your page
  • PaperMatte, uncoated — pencil, colored pencil
  • BindingsPaperback · Hardcover

Buy

Two editions.

Front cover of The Ink Dragon, paperback: an ink dragon erupts from a scroll as a robed apprentice recoils and a masked thief lunges with a blade in a wooden temple hall.

Paperback

ASIN B0H8PTFX14

120 pages. The story in over 150 panels, then twenty-five pages of open frames.

Paperback on Amazon →

Inside

Interior pages.

Interior page: the dragon coils above a mountain range under a full moon.
Interior page: the boy at his writing desk as the dragon rises from spilled ink.
Interior page: the masked thief confronted in the temple hall.
Interior page: the closing panel of the story.
Interior page: the opening panel of the story.
Marketing graphic titled "Single Sided Blanks": an open story spread beside two open spreads of blank frames, noting pencil and colored pencil work best on the matte, uncoated paper.

Reach the publisher

Questions or corrections about this book? Write to [email protected] — it goes to the publisher, not a queue.

Free

Ten of the panel pages, printable.

Ten pages of the open frames, no cost, at kagemoripress.com/premium — along with a short, optional question about a heavier, marker-proof spiral edition.

The ten pages →