About the Artist
Today I created a new topic to write about the artist who leads and created many digimon arts for the digimon anime, as well as the digimon card. When we play a card game, who would not be more happy and excited to collect the one with nice art, the one that was always in your memory from your childhood tivi show.
Watanabe Kenji is the lead designer of the toy planning company Wiz, who created the "Digital Monster" series, known as Digimon Digital World in anime. He is the artist that illustrates Omegamon, the combined fighting version of Metalgreymon and Garurumon. It is now the symbol of the whole franchise series. The Omegamon figures as a Knight of hero side, an art with the feeling of chill, safe and shining. (Watanabe Kenji is the artist for BT1 Omegamon parallel art, not the normal art). I would like to keep this image as its very high dimension, so you can see detail of the art.
Besides parallel art of Omegamon, I also like the series of parallel art in BT3 for SR card. These series of card are totally unique and easy to figure out that they are from the same artist. The BT3 parallel art for all super rare card are illustrates using all line drawing colors with monochromatic color scheme. It is easy to identify which color that digimon belongs to. It is such a systematic and remarkable technique.
The RED theme designs for BlitzGreymon and Ragnaloard mon, the BLUE theme for Leopardmon and ImperialDramon: Dragonmode, the super cool Yellow color for Kentarousmon. I love the yellow art Kentarosmon the most, its yellow is very special.
For the other 3 color, we got the green theme for Ceresmon, the dark grey theme for Ceresgarurumon and Craniamon, with violet beautiful art for Mastemon and Lilithmon. Lilithmon seriously gives us the vibe of a mother, while some people don't even know Mastermon is a female (if they don't watch the anime).
His Favorite Digimon
In one interview, Watanabe Kenji said his favorite digimon is Beelzemon, this digimon suits his taste the most. But because Beelzemon is from dark side, so Beelzemon is created as a solid dark hero in enemy brigade.
He is currently also a representative and character designer for WOW FACTORY. If you want to check out and find or buy his original design, you can check out there. There is many drawing of original art in his pixiv account, there is not only digimon, but also other of his art work.
Update on BT5 releasing - parallel art illustrated by Kenji Watanabe
