Michael has been a serious artist since his fifteenth birthday, on which his father bought him his first set of oil paints. Since then, Michael has taken AP art in high school, majored in art at the Ohio State University, and dabbled in painting, illustration, comic book and board game design throughout his ten-year career as a Japanese translator. Michael currently maintains a busy life juggling interpreting and translation work, co-raising his two children with his wife, and somehow finding time to develop three to six long-term projects at a time. But the fear of settling into a banal non-existence acts as a great motivator, and the artist continuously rediscovers that a devotion to storytelling and creation acts as the fuel needed to persist during such small windows of opportunity.