Shohei Otomo, sometimes stylized professionally as SHOHEI, is a Japanese artist known for his drawings with ballpoint pens.
11 Facts About Shohei Otomo
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Shohei Otomo was born in 1980 and grew up in Tokyo.
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Shohei Otomo is the son of manga artist Katsuhiro Otomo and his wife, Yoko.
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Shohei Otomo always envisioned that he would become an artist.
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Shohei Otomo studied oil painting while attending Tama Art University, but switched to ballpoint pens to create ink art, as oil paints are expensive.
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Shohei Otomo prefers ink pens to pencils, as pencils left a silvery finish he found undesirable.
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Shohei Otomo uses "ordinary ballpoints that you can buy anywhere for about 80 yen".
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Shohei Otomo creates the drawings on paperboard, though, at one gallery exhibition in Japan, he applied acrylic paint to a human model in a live sketching session.
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Shohei Otomo spends up to a month on an illustration.
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Shohei Otomo's work is inspired by the stress of Tokyo, a city he finds "suffocating".
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Shohei Otomo has additionally had his work displayed in exhibitions in France, Italy, and Mexico.