 - Arashi - Nomad [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - DO YOU KNOW WHAT THERE IS? ARASHI FANART. I was sort of hesitant to wander too far into this site at first, since it's Sho/Ohno, but I also have no real objection to the pairing, so I started clicking. And this is quite possibly one of the most adorable sites I have ever come across, the pairing is so incredibly cute here in this artist's hands. She draws them in adorable poses with these bright, shiny, cute colors and puts them in adorable clothes that totally capture the spirit of Arashi and I just want to scoop them up and snuggle them endlessly. It makes me want to go hunt down, like, every episode of MMA or the other shows that they've ever done because it fills me with such happy, fluffy love for them. I love the artist's style, she captures them really well, but also makes them even more impossibly cute. Plus, she even has a handful of Jun illustrations, which makes me just that much happier, too. ♥ (Sho/Ohno.)
 - Arashi - R*R [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - Right from the top illustration, which was one of the cutest things I have ever seen in my life, I knew I was going to like this site. It's the kind of art that fills me with warmth and happiness because it's just so adorable and almost like little sketches, except more polished and there are all these shiny clothes and cute Ohnos in various clothing and these soft colors that I adore so much and just... yeah. Yeah, a lot of cuteness here, the kind that makes me make the XD XD XD face a lot. I really do love the attention to the little details, it seems like such an... almost simple style at first, but it's really not. Very pretty. ♥ (Nothing I'm going to warn for.)
 - ARASHI - [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - It still utterly delights me that there are Arashi fanartists out there, especially ones who are drawing such lovely stuff like this. This artist obviously has great affection for Ohno, you can see it in the way she draws him, but she's also so good at it. She puts in a lot of strong detail and clean lines (even when they're still sketches, they somehow look very clean and neat) and uses color sparingly but effectively often times. Plus, she often uses that softener filter I like so much, but isn't too over the top about it for me. She also draws the rest of Arashi occasionally (which always makes me happy) and her Ohmiya is just lovely. I was so happy to find this site. ♥ (Lots of Ohmiya, a lot of gen/other.)
 - ARASHI - [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - Yeah, okay, it took all of two illustrations into this site before I knew I was going to totally cave on it. The artist drew this really cute, fun group image that was just so... well, fun, I guess. Then the second illustration was one of Jun with his Gokusen hair, doing one of those ridiculous poses that they so often do in magazines and I made XDDDD faces and was pretty much immediately sunk. I mean! He's pretty! He really is! The art is very nice! I still laugh! And I think I may have been here before, but it was likely early on in my Arashi fannish days, so I wonder if maybe it wouldn't appeal to new fans, but as someone who's a bit more established... I love the dorky group antics, I love the watercolor of Nino with stars in his hair, I love A no Arashi!Aiba with the magnifying glass and adorable :9 expression, I love the oekaki of Hanadan!Jun with Oguri Shun in the background, I love Ohno and Sho from their Super Soul dorkery, I love all of it and how the artist obviously loves all of the boys very much, too. (No real warnings/pairings.)
 - ARASHI - pin [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - Eeeee, the adorable group antics on this site! So cute! So cute I can hardly stand it! It's one of those sites where the artist's style is just so damn cute and full of love and so freaking adorable that it immediately touched me and I had to force myself not to rush through the gallery because I wanted to see what she'd do next. Maybe it's not going to be the style for everyone, but when it comes to Arashi, I am ridiculously delighted by the cuteness, especially when in a group setting like this. 'Cause I love pairings as much as the next fangirl, but my heart really wants the group dorkery, which this artist provides in such a delightful way. ♥ (No real warnings/pairings that I'm going to count.)
 - ARASHI - [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - It took me a little while to be won over by this artist's style, but I actually wound up really appreciating it. It's not something I would have considered much, the artist often has a very CG/anime-cel-esque style to her art, which I might have blinked at applying to real people, but... I kinda liked it after awhile. I actually like her cel-style images more than her doujinshi-style images, I think? They're both well drawn, you can see she has a lot of talent, but maybe I just feel like the images with color are easier to associate with the people I recognize. But mostly it's just really fun to see another artist's take on Ohno, whom you can tell is her favorite, she draws him in all sorts of fun, adorable poses/concepts. XD (A lot of Ohno standalone, but a lot of Ohmiya, too.)
 - ARASHI - [ English Fanart Site ] - [Note: The artist's devART account isn't always updated as often as her vox account, where you can find a lot more of her art, there's usually an image in every post.] I don't even know where to begin with this artist. She draws these cute little chibi/sprite-esque fanart images that are really cute and brightly colored and very adorable. But it's so much more than that. She is, absolutely hands down and no question, my favorite Arashi fanartist because she obviously has this tremendous love for all of the boys and shows how much they all care about each other in these really hilarious ways. She gets why they're such dorks and teases them about their various vices/traits (Aiba's love for animals, Jun's love for fashion, Ohno's amazing dancing, Sho's degree, Nino's evil fuckery, etc.) in such a way that reminds me intensely of why I love each and everyone of them. Her art is awesome because I always, always have the biggest smile on my face after going through her galleries and her "love" series (where she drew several strips to show why each one of Arashi was loved) were just so fantastic that I want to link to each and every one of them to point out how awesome they were. Just. asdlfkjalsklkajs I had the worst time not just shrieking and flailing with love here. And, you know. Not writing a rec that was three times as long as this one. I explode with love. ♥ (No warnings/pairings.)
- ARASHI - [ English Fanart Site ] - [Note: I'm not sure how often the artist updates her devART account, but you can also find her art posted to her livejournal, if you want to check there as well.] As much as I'm surprised that there are j-fanartists for Arashi, I'm even more surprised that there are English artists for Arashi! Especially ones with such cute art! You can totally tell how much the artist really loves Ohno and Ohmiya, how much she really enjoys drawing them and asdlfkjaslkdslkj they are SO FREAKING CUTE. Not that she only draws Ohmiya, she also has the occasional cute Matsujun image or adorable Yamatarou image or... well, okay. If I had to pick a favorite? It would totally be Cardcaptor Sakurai. I crack up every time I come across it again. Or possibly the one where they try to give Nino his gifts. I LOL again. She has a lot of really super-cute art and I love that you can still totally tell who's who even in her chibi-esque style. ♥ (A lot of Ohmiya, some gen, too.)
 - ARASHI - 00MAIDEN [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - I was seriously only two illustrations into this site when I got to SHO AND OHNO AS UTENA AND ANTHY FROM SHOUJO KAKUMEI UTENA. I was kind of pissy about all the j-fanart I'd been forced to intake over the last couple of weeks which was making my brain melt and I was pissy because I'd finally stumbled onto all the JE search engines (which meant even more fanart), but then I saw that and... I tried valiently not to glee at the sheer awesome of that, but I could not resist it. SHO AND OHNO AS UTENA AND ANTHY. SO SO HILARIOUSLY AWESOME. There's also the most ridiculously cute Halloween illustration with them as chibis and beautiful bright colors and adorable basic lineart and, you know. Jun breathing fire to light his own birthday candles. It's not a perfect site, but it's-- Well. Between everything being cute and the utter lol on some of the pages, I just love this site ridiculous amounts. ♥ (....nothing I'm going to warn for.)
 - ARASHI - [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - The very first illustration I saw when I came to this site (at the time I wrote this recommendation), it was one of Nino in his Yamada Tarou maid outfit (which is never not hilarious in and of itself) with the wig falling off while Sho is deeply amused in the background. And it looked great even just for the way I could totally tell it was them and it was actually pretty. There's not a ton of art elsewhere on the site and you have to poke around a fair amount, but it's cute, solidly done stuff with pretty colors and there is Aiba/Nino fanart. I love Aiba/Nino fanart! ♥ There's even fanart from the Happiness PV where Aiba is totally chewing on Nino's head. And there was even a Jun/Nino sketch! I almost never see art of Jun and Nino, this was very nearly worth the site alone right there. And there's art from the Shukudai-kun cosplay episode and the Odoroki SP3 and--! So much really fantastic Nino art here. ♥♥♥ (It's... sort of half-gen, half-potential slash? It's a little all over the place, but the most prominent would probably be Aiba/Nino or Sho/Nino.)
 - ARASHI - indigo garden [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - It took me kind of an embarassingly long time to figure out to click on the "love" section rather than the regular gallery, so that I could find the Arashi fanart (since "love" usually so often refers to a link page and there was a gallery page right there and... it was confusing for a minute or two, okay?), but it was totally worth it, the art here is lovely. The artist uses the kind of coloring I love, the lush, rich shades that practically just glow. Her group illustrations are fabulous, the chibis she so often uses are adorable but they are also SUPER CUTE. The one of them playing in a field is nearly physically painful with how much I love it. And summer!Aiba? Yes, plz, omg. ♥ Or the one where they're practically dogpiling onto Jun in those red TIME concert outfits and the cake goes flying? That is what I love about fanart. (Nothing I'd really warn for, maybe some Aiba/Nino.)
 - ARASHI - [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - This site is definitely not going to be for everyone, the early art is kind of shakey and the artist does improve, but it's still not going to be for everyone. However, I fucking loved this site. Right from the top illustration (at the time I wrote this rec, of course), it was of Arashi dressed up in Power Ranger-like outfits with them looking so freaking cute as chibis... and Jun being SO FUCKING CUTE in his little pink out fit and PINK FUCKING SKIRT AND MY LOVE FOR THIS SITE EXPLODED RIGHT THEN, right before I ever even stepped foot into the gallery proper. Most of the rest of the site is more tame, there are a lot of chibi-esque illustrations and I didn't get really into the site again until about halfway through, but occasionally there's a really cool illustration of Ohno in traditional clothing or the group dressed up in animal costumes or Jun with his pretty pretty princess curls or princess!Jun bitching out the rest of the group for annoying the crap out of him on his birthday or the oekaki of Jun with a bazooka and I just... this site had so much of the spirit of what I love about Arashi. (No real warnings/pairings.)
 - ARASHI - Strawberry Strawberry [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - Oh, I fell in love with this site almost instantly, the soft and pretty colored-pencil-esque style is just lovely with this artist's work, she has the strength in her basic art to pull it off. It doesn't hurt that she draws some of the cutest (without being too terribly over the top fluffy so as to be ridiculous) Aiba/Nino I've seen all day. The kind that just makes me melt into a puddle because they are so adorable. Also, Aiba is suitably hot even when being a dork, always a plus. :Dv There's a decent amount of art on the site as well, even the oekaki illustrations are fun to look at. ♥ (Aiba/Nino, some gen.)
 - ARASHI - [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - The art on this site starts out a little shakey and it's never quite perfect, but I loved this site with squeeing abandon. It's actually quite adorable and often pretty art, but the real delight of the site is in the spirit of it, the way Jun is all long-legged and gorgeous in a waiter's uniform or super-cute in his rhinestone-studded boots or how there is SHO/JUN FANART YOU GUYS I DID NOT THINK I WOULD SEE THE DAY ♥♥♥ or Sho in a doctor's outfit or Jun in pretty traditional female Chinese clothing or super-adorable group illustrations (the Halloween one is so damn adorable!) or Ohno + Jun doing that goldfish catching game with the little paper catchers and Jun has wrecked his so he is all D:< about it and I-- I love this site a lot, okay? Like, it fills my heart with rainbow happiness. (Some Sho/Jun, but it's mostly a gen site.)
 - ARASHI - acorn [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - It took me awhile to warm up to this site and perhaps I wouldn't have given it the extra effort, but it was Arashi and the current top page illustration on the site is of Jun with his shirt unbutton and surrounded by roses. I couldn't help but be charmed by this. The site also has one or two Aiba/Jun illustrations and I rather like her take on Aiba (he's so pretty, omg) and the artist does some really sweet group illustrations. I think that's what won me over more than anything else, really. Her style is much like watercolors and this often makes for some really interesting looking pictures. ....and it doesn't hurt that the artist does seem most fond of Aiba and Jun. (No real warnings/pairings.)
 - JE/Takki & Tsubasa - GAZEBO [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - So. I was looking for Arashi fanart. That's all I was supposed to be doing this afternoon. Just. Arashi. Fanart. And then I discovered the hell that is the Johnny's search engine and I was morbidly curious about clicking through the NEWS links. Which led me to... a bunch of T&T sites. And I didn't want to be looking at T&T art sites, but I couldn't quite look away, not until I could see if there was at least one good one. And then I found this site. And the art is so goddamned cute and the colors are so shiny and pretty and there's a couple really beautiful ones of Tsubasa especially and then a couple of really hot T&T doubles illustrations (if you accept that this is fanart so they don't precisely look like themselves all the time, though, the artist is pretty solid at Tsubasa ♥) and just... as;fdkljasdl;alskj I'm in JE fandom hell right now and I'm never getting out. ;__;♥ (....nothing I would warn for.)
 - ARASHI - Stone Seeker [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - It took me a bit to figure out how to navigate this site (since it's a lot harder to surf through jpop fansites) but it was totally worth it because there is some fantastic art here. It's kind of stylized, so it's not going to be for everyone, but I really loved the bright colors and really clean lines and just how much fun everything was here. I was enjoying the whole site (there were some really pretty Ohno illustrations) but when I got to the Nino page with the quick sketch of him in the pompom hat and holding the DS with that expression on his face, I knew I was definitely sunk. Just. a sd;flkajslkj HEE, SO CUTE. ♥ (No real warnings/pairings.)
 - ARASHI - garret [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - Another site that's not going to be for everyone but somehow quickly won me over. Maybe it was the super-adorable Tensei Kunpu (I think?) art of Ohno. Maybe it was the ridiculously cute Sho/Ohno chibis. Whatever it was, I just kind of... really liked the art style, it's very cute and fun and light-hearted and adorable. I mean, there's Aiba/Nino dressed up in cute little costumes! How could I resist it?? There's not a lot of art here, but it's a fun little site, I enjoyed it a lot. ♥ (A little Sho/Ohno, a little Aiba/Nino.)
 - ARASHI - Airspace [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - The more I look at this site, the more I was really kind of charmed by it--there's not a lot of art here, at the time of this rec, there were only about 20 blog entries total (and I don't think all of them had art), but... there were a couple of things that stood out. One, her art is really very nicely detailed, there's a lot going on in them and I can recognize who they're supposed to be. Her b&w style is really nice and kind of reminds me of a manga-ish style almost. Two, NINO/JUN ART YES PLZ. ♥ Mostly it's Nino or Jun by themselves (a;sldfkja the image of Nino from Himitsu no Arashi-chan is great) but a couple of them are together. DO YOU KNOW HOW OFTEN I FIND NINO/JUN ART? LIKE NEVER. Much less art I really like! So, this was a wonderful little find for me. ♥ (Mostly gen, maybe little a Nino/Jun?)
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