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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_
Informática:
David Portillo_
agradecimientos: Rubén Bruque _Montserrat Fernández de Arroyabe _
Lali Almonacid_Mati Barbero_Isa Isla_Carmen Frutos_ Marc Salinas_
Misha Kominek_ Mónica Cuende _Toni López_
Susana Baldó_
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Shohei Otomo
hakuchi.jp
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