mag_nº 8 artist

Shohei Otomo

Editor: José Manuel Bejarano_

Director: Isidre Estévez_

Editor gráfico y maquetación: Óscar ferrer_

Jefe de Redacción_Rubén Romero._

Redacción: Jordi Muro_

Sílvia Micolau_

Colaboradores: Adrián de Alfonso_

Albert Duat_

Antonio Baños_

Boko_

Carles Riu_

Chabela Díaz _

Christian Barranco_

Cristian Campos_

Cristina Ros_

Desirée de Fez_

El Negociador_

Federico Navarro_

Ferran Llauradó_

Gonzalo del Castillo_

Guido Reyna_

Guillem Clua_

Half Nelson_

Íñigo M. Möller_

Iban del Campo_

Iván Caparrós_

Jaime Casas_José Sánchez_

Laura Folguera _

Laura Sales_

Luis Escudero_

Marc Prades_

Marc Piñol_

Matías Corea_

Marga Durá_

Mónica Artigas_Noemí Zapata_

Oriol Rossell_

Óscar del Pozo_

Quim Pérez_

Ramón Vendrell_

Rubén Mayoral_

Rubén Romero_

Salvador Santó_

Sebastià Roig_

Sylvia Patterson_Valentín Roma_

Vicenç Batalla_

Xavi Ayén_

Fotografía: Ángela Bonadiés_

Anna Ripoll_

Biel Capllonch_

Cès DeVilallonga_

Corinne Day_

Daniel Riera_

Darius Dombek_

Jack Ristol_

José Manuel Bejarano_

Jack Ristol_

Julian Broad_

Julio Garcia_

Kevin Westenberg_

Marc Goodwin_

Misha Kominek_

Nacho Juárez_

Natalia_

Nico_

Onofre Bachiller_

Ronnie Black_Simbolek_

Tristan Macherel_

Udo Hess_

Xevi Muntané_

Ilustración: Bernat Lliteras_

Berto Martínez_

J. Carrasco_

Jordi Ferrera_

Juanjo Sáez_

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David Portillo_

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Shohei Otomo

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His name is Shohei Otomo, the son of Katsuhiro Otomo, one of the Japanese great manga artists who created world-famous man-ga/movie “Akira.” He has already released some illustration works in Japan, but still has not well known over the world.

Let’s have a look on his thrilling technique in drawing. He mainly uses a ball point pen, and it seems that he is working strictly in black, white, and red.

Few artists are able to build an entirely new imagery starting from a traditional background. But definitely, the Japonese artist Shohei Otomo (aka Hakuchi), is one of those happy few. We don’t know many things about him: he graduated from Tama Art Uni-versity, and, soon after that, he managed to develop a personal style, gaining international recognition with his signature ballpoint pen illustration. Further, he keeps it simple – always using black&whites with some killer red accents. His works are just impos-sible to ignore, they’re powerful, filled with a genuine creative passion and a lot of attention for the details. Although we can get an idea about his inspiration – manga, traditional Japanese iconography, western comics, gheisha look or samurai attire, it is still difficult to drop Shohei’s art in a particular style. It’s just his own style. For me, it’s like Sin City treated a la japonaise, or like a playful alternative of Bjork’s infamous Homogenic cover, designed by Alexander McQueen.

But, what I like most about Shohei Otomo’s art is his particular spirit of vitality, the enthusiasm of mixing violence with juicy fas-hionable elements, always adding a dose of good humor. I think the Europeans have a certain (mis)understanding of the Japanese culture, which they often regard as minimal, intellectual, sober and colorless (the Japanese fashion makes no exception). But, as the Harajuku style already showed, there’s a lot of creativity out there, a sense of theatricality and a creative optimism. And Shohei Otomo’s art stands as a major proof for it.fuente: fashion-salad.com