Japanese Figure Skater Akiko Suzuki. 鈴木明子

For those people who are not familiar with figure skating, Japan has some excellent figure skaters. Some of the most famous are Miki Ando, Mao Asada and Torino Olympic gold medal winner Shizuka Arakawa. This year Japan has some very strong competitors going to the Olympics in Vancouver. One of the skaters, Akiko Suzuki, made the Olympic team by surprise and I think many people are excited to see how well she will do in the Olympic competitions. I thought she was a interesting subject so I drew her for this pen and ink/photoshop drawing. Let's hope she does well at the Olympic games.