For the Los Angeles Times’ special section on “The Journey of Shohei Ohtani,” we commissioned five artists to create portraits of the baseball megastar.
All of the stories in the section can be found at latimes.com/ohtani. To buy the special print section, go to the L.A. Times store.
Kenichi Minami (NOY DESIGN)
Find more of Minami’s work @noydesign_minami.
![Photos of Shohei Ohtani arranged around Japanese characters that translate to "The Journey of Shohei Ohtani"](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/28812a5/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2744x5879+0+0/resize/2160x4628!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F39%2F18%2Fbf265b1841a285c9eb1d5c9098fc%2Fla-sp-ohtani-illo-minami-vertical.jpg)
Dave Murray
Find more of Murray’s work @dave__murray.
![Illustration in cubist style of Shohei Ohtani wearing a Dodgers uniform holding a bat across his shoulders](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7045f76/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2160x4464+0+0/resize/2160x4464!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd2%2F19%2F31c138a047ff8e47ff055757c1f1%2Fla-sp-ohtani-illo-murray-2160.jpg)