Manga portrait

A portrait of yours truly, Michael Downey, drawn by my good friend David Smith (below), owner of Watermelon Studios. He’s an aspiring Manga artist currently in his final year of University studying animation and also an ardent musician. Go and pay his site a visit, request a commission for some art or just read some of his blog. Update it more often Dave - we want to see more drawings and animation too!

As you might have guessed, it’s based loosely on the photo of myself on the About page of Knowing Nothing. Many thanks to Dave! Click the pictures for larger versions!

In other news I’m just three days away from the Japanese Speech Contest in London! I’m currently preparing for some anticipated questions I may be asked after I give my speech. I’ll be talking about the Japanese concept of ‘Omoiyari’ （思いやり), very roughly translated as ‘consideration for others’. Wish me luck!

(P.S. I wrote ‘Michael Downey’ above for search engine indexing purposes only! As if I wasn’t already being stuck-up enough by putting up pictures of myself… ^^;)

Go on, read more related posts!

• Random weirdness with the King of Sarcasm himself…
• Japanese Speech Contest 2008
• My address again
• GAP Japan Diary - Beginning!
• Shiso address

Filed under: English, Japan, Japan-eng by Mike on Wednesday, January 30th 2008 @ 9:37 pm | Trackback |