Sanil Chitrakar
Illustrator
Freelance sketch artist specializing in portraits of athletes, politicians, world leaders and other celebrities. He won the #MessiArt contest in which he drew a real-life looking sketch of soccer superstar Lionel Messi.
He is a self-taught artist. He moved to Japan around 2006.
He worked with Manchester United TV, Bleacher Report UK and various shoe brands. His theemptyhead Instagram account has earned more than 120,000 followers.
His last name of Chitrakar literally translates to "artist" in his mother tongue.
Ronaldinho shared the sketch Sanil made of him via social media.