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A black and white illustration of a camera. The number “194” is written above the left side, with Japanese text to the right.

Ohara Daijiro’s Sophisticated-Simple

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Rui Tenreiro
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Date
1 March 2010

Man behind the latest cover of Idea magazine, designer and illustrator OHARA DAIJIRO, has one of the most sophisticated drawing lines I’ve seen lately. With simple colours and effective use half-tone patterns, his drawing line is a combination of round and ruler-drawn-like straight lines, unjoined at the ends. It has characteristics of Manga and the maturity and sophistication of Takehisa Yumeji.

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