Kamijo 20th Anniversary World Tour

References coming soon.

NOTE: The original drawing is on 1600x2000 pixels size. Since I will do a postcard with this, print it and give it to the person who is the reason of this fanart, I decided to put this view smaller and with watermark.

EDIT: Drawing given to the singer as a gift in May 29th 2015 via organization of Colombian Street Team.

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Ah, finally!

Well, again a fanart who will be given to a singer in a live.

Someone remember my beloved fanart of the guys of Versailles? Well, yeah, this band went on hiatus during 2012 year, and then the singer, Kamijo, decided to make a solo career. And this year he began a World Tour in order of celebrate his 20 years on visual kei scene. He will perform songs of all the bands he was (officially): Lareine (legendary 90s visual kei band), NEW SODMY (a sort of non-VK j-rock project he had, very good btw) and Versailles, as well as his solo career. With him a support band will go, among them, his Versailles mate, Masashi, as the bassist.

Guess what, again Colombia was included as part of the tour. It was his decision and he and his manager made all the organization for make it possible, so he really wanted to go to my country.

And, even more: I will go to see him live. And with VIP tickets, again xD. So I will be able of have a meet&greet with him again, and even more, the fortune of a personal cheki two-shot photo. Yes, I know the group photos of the European Tour were a disaster and people had been complaining that in USA and Latin America the photo will be way better (Actually I really did not believe we would have a two-shot photo and I thought this would be another delusion of crazy fangirls, but in the end life slapped me and we will have this), but I can assure you: It was only possible because the guys of B7Klan in the end decided to don't commit the same mistakes for the USA and Latin America parts of Tour. And, I am very sorry this happened with the guys in Europe.

I used his outfits who he is using for the Tour in Europe.

This won't be the fanart I will give him for the live. But the art will be used for a postcard I am doing and I will print soon.

Mother of pineapples, this made me realize how much I improved. My first Kamijo attempt in 2011 was very above my average and it was a great challenge, but in comparision to how I draw now, actually I am shocked of how much of different it looks. This one was also a sort of challenge because Photoshop has not a very good performance on Windows 8.1, and what is worse, the RAM consuming was so wild I've had to optimize the program so it would not get that crazy.

I used on here for the shading a mix of techniques. In some ares i used some basic blur, and in others smudge tool, since I finally could find the smudge tool in Photoshop CS6 and configure it again as I had it before. So that's why the hair looks so good and not that plain anymore.

So, I hope things go well. Wish me luck! ^_^

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This person and his support band belong to themselves. He is part of Chateau Agency and his discography is released under Warner Music Japan.

Credits to redheadstock for brushes.

Artwork by Kanaru Abe kanaruaizawa16.