FOR SILVERFA 8D *GAHAHAHA* I hope this makes it even more impossible to get this crack moment outta your head, simply because you made me laugh too hard yesterday. Revenge. LOL.

From the epic episode – epic because I’ve watched it more than 10 times in, idk, 4 days?.. and still counting – of Arashi no Shukudai-kun「なりきり80秒トーク」。For this part of the impromptu 80-second talk, Arashi turn into blondies speaking with a fake gaijin accent about the given topic (good points about their fellow members). 片言 Katakoto means to speak with a smattering of a language.

Sho [pic] あ、後は何だろうな、じゃだれにも一人（引く?）話聞くかな。★ Ah, what’s next.. So, I wonder if we should just talk about one person for now (don’t know for sure lol)..
Nino [pic] じゃ、翔。。。鼻曲がってるよ！★ Okay so… (looks in his direction, observing) Sho… HA-NA MA-GA-T-TE-RU YO! YOUR NOSE IS CROOKED YO!
Sho [pic] (making a huge fuss) OH–MY–GOD!
Nino [pic] 何で？★ Why?
Ohno 何で？★ Why?
Jun 何で？何での？★ Why? Why?
Nino 鼻曲がってるよ！★ YOUR NOSE IS CROOKED YO!
Ohno 何で曲がってるの？★ Why is your nose crooked!
Sho [pic] WHY!!
Nino WHY! 何で？
Ohno WHY! 何で曲がってるの？★ Why! Why is your nose crooked!
Sho [pic] HELP ME! HELP ME! *nose falls off*
Nino [pic] はー！怖いよ！翔、鼻取れたよ！★ Ahh it’s scary yo! Sho, you managed to catch hold of your nose yo!
Jun [pic] 翔, 取れたよ！★ You got it back yo!
Ohno [pic] 取れても鼻あるん ★ You got your nose back..
Jun おっ、治ったよ ★ Oh now it’s fixed.
Nino 本当だよ。★ Yeah.
Sho [pic] I’M BACK.
Nino びっくりさせてないでよ ★ Please don’t surprise us like that yo.
Sho [pic] I’M BACK. (smirks)

When I’m brain dead from the lack of sleep and subsequently being hyped up over the top, when I watch Arashi crack, this is the sort of nonsense you’d get. I actually enjoy drawing ugly *coughNOSEScough* things. Nino is too awesome for coming up with that line. XD

*video credits: ArashixDream

お誕生日おめでとう大野智！

大ちゃん！おっさん！智くん！とし！リーダ！釣りバカ！
いつも大ちゃんはアーティストとしてすごいと思うよ。だからフアンアートを描いて、大ちゃんにあげたいんだ。
テームは『FREESTYLE』のフィギュアだ。でも見て見て、その描いたフィギュアの顔は大ちゃんだよーーー！
さすがかわいいな〜　大ちゃん、今日お誕生日をよく祝してくださいね！Enjoy！

Happy 29th Birthday to Ohno Satoshi

the incredibly cute artist ^^ Ohchan – and everything about him – never fail to surprise. Oldest in Arashi yet blessed with a *grumpy* baby face; he’s such an enigma. I love the way he dances so perfectly, sings with a beautiful and distinct voice, makes all sorts of expressions that tugs at heartstrings, spaces out way too often and has a vocabulary limited to one word when made to comment on food, and the fact that his brain is filled with awesomely weird ideas. <3

“Ehhhhhh—-?”…
Any idea why he’s making that awfully funny face? Comment and share your thoughts!
何でリーダがそのおかしい顔をしているの？面白いアイデアをここでコメントしてください〜

The digital painting took 2 days, based on Ochan’s figurine idea from his FREESTYLE art exhibition series. What’s unlike his personal image is that he seems to have been strongly influenced by the African-American culture and music, which can be seen throughout his entire collection of artwork. Looking through his artbook, inspiration hit and at the spur of a moment, I turned Ohno into one of his figurines.

I’ve actually a more elaborate plan for this thing 8D Let’s just wait and see how it will turn out.

今、目の前で君が口ずさんだメロデイ ~♪
気づいてないかもしれないけど僕は感じる
前とは違う　近づけば自然に伝わる
僕らにしか見えない秘密の架け橋が出来た

Now, right in front of my eyes, you hummed a melody.
You probably won’t notice but I felt it.
Things were different before,
If I approach you, we’ll be able to go along naturally.
We can only see it, the secret we made.
(translated lyrics @ arashilyrics)

A couple of posts ago I mentioned that I got down to drawing again with my wacom pen. Since the internal mechanism broke when it dropped, I replaced it (with $60 of course) some time ago when we visited a store at one of the IT malls.

It so happened that I dove into my *extremely rare, probably once a year* FULL TIME Arashi fangirling mode when I began to download stuff (oh the joy!) instead of watching them on streaming sites and recently suffering the effects (yes Silverfa knows too well) from an overdose of fanfics posted on the LJ communities. Particularly, the inspiration to draw Ohmiya 大宮 came from this story Fallen Angels which sucked me in, kept up the good drama and blew me away with the twists and ending. <3 As I carried out my search, a picture caught my eye and I just HAD to draw dear ♥Satoshi♥ and ♥Kazu♥ right then. It's such a lovely and spontaneous moment that made it irresistible to translate their expressions and natural stances into my own art. Arashi’s NATURAL ^.^

Well don’t be mistaken, although it has an uncanny resemblance to a normal pencil drawing, it’s done entirely using my wacom and in Photoshop. I worked on it for a few days, in the process whining to some people about Ohchan’s striped shirt with evil creases all over the place which gave me hell no doubt. I probably have never had enough patience to fill in accurate details of fabric and textures before this grueling practice. Good grueling practice that reaped pretty results :) Please, this is like one of my most accomplished drawings ever, personally, considering the resemblance to the pair and attention I paid to the details. I hope. Though I’m nowhere even near the midpoint of a competent artist. Now I understand that (self)perfected art takes way too much time. Haha. Glad I persisted till completion.

They showed Letters from Iwo Jima 「硫黄島からの手紙」 on Okto one Sunday night last month. Ade and Silverfa were glued to their TVs, I was glued to mine even when I had already seen it once in the cinema and twice on dvd before. Major hints of Ohmiya ラブ ♥ in a Hollywood war film zomg….. Right, I probably did notice that Saigo’s (Nino’s role) hometown was in Ohmiya when I first watched it but there are actually MORE; I only recently learnt that Ohno wanted to own a bread shop if he hasn’t become an artiste. So, Saigo and his wife were bakers :3 and when war broke out, their products were supplied to the military, and afterwards their baking equipment as well. A downcast Saigo then mumbles, later on, that “I should have been a fisherman..” (Because he could join Ohno in his 25-hour fishing trips and get a nice dark tan for his pale skin. But too bad Nino won’t even be able to cope at sea. Hence being a baker is fine, anyways.)　(・ω・)ノ 大ちゃんはどんな食べ物も好きだから。