Art Post: Okamoto Keito

Woah, it seems like ages since I did my last art post. I've actually had this sketch done for ages but I never really got around to finishing with the coloring until now. Busy busy busy. =_=

But I'm back! And this time with some art of by far my favorite Johnny's boy out of them all, Okamoto Keito (岡本 圭人). Words cannot describe how smitten I am with this boy (but in a totally platonic way haha). I think it has something to do with the fact that he plays guitar, knows how to speak English (and speaks English with his hybrid Japanese-British accent) and is just an adorable clutz of a man lol.

Plus will you look at those arms?

He's currently a member of Jpop group, Hey! Say! JUMP, the rest of whom I am almost equally as smitten with, but not really. When I got to stay at the same hotel as the band during their Hong Kong Concert, I actually got a chance to see the entire band and Keito face to face and greet him, "お疲れさまでした!" (otsukaresama deshtia / thank you fr the hard work) when they came back from their last concert. He was by far the most sincere and actually bowed back lol. I will never forget that day.

That aside, he's also one of the few Japanese artists out there that choose to actually pursue college education and I respect him even more for that. EDUCATION, FTW!


It's no wonder then that I felt I should immortalize how much I appreciate his perseverance with a little fanart, albeit rather badly drawn, rushed and not very good in general haha. In all fairness, I did draw this without a reference so I can't really be blamed for how much I fail :P Hopefully his other fangirls don't kill me x_x And yes, I suck at drawing clothes. Sue me.

In all honesty, it's not as good as I remembered it to be ahaha. It looked a lot better while I was actually drawing and coloring it in, but owell. You win some, you lose some. The original sketch was done with a normal Mongol pencil and I just decided to scan and color it on Photoshop. I am in no way a professional artists and lack the tools to actually do decent shading, so please don't judge me too much. IMO, the sketch looked a lot better haha. Unfortunately, I saved OVER the sketch so I can't show you the raw picture D:

I could probably spend this entire post and a few thousand more words raving about why I find Okamoto Keito so interesting as a person as well as an artist but I think I might save that for another post (If I dare >:D).

And that's it for now. Tell me what you guys think. haha.