Born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii, Kekai has always had a passion for art. Finding the sunshine and beautiful scenery distracting, he moved to dreary Seattle in 2000 to attend art school. After graduating, he proceeded to attempt a career at doing art. The first meaningful step was getting a job at ArenaNet, the makers of the Guild Wars franchise as a texture artist. Through hard work and more than a little luck, he was able to become a concept artist. With even more hard work and little more luck Kekai was to branch out into illustration work where he was able to do book covers and even a few Magic the Gathering cards.