Memories:
I'm Asian. Chinese and Korean. Born and raised in Alexandria, VA. My parents owned a Chinese buffet restaurant named Fu Jian Chen. It was a cool place growing up. I had to go there a lot as a kid. I ate there, slept there, took naps there, and did I mention I ate a lot? I was a chubbster kid. My brother got me into Tae Kwon Do and so I started getting active and grew into myself.
I took a lot of art classes growing up. There were a couple male figures in my life that I really looked up to and they were great artists. Or at least I thought so. So I thought, "man I want to draw like them!" So I started drawing comic books and trying to get my picture to look exactly like them. Without tracing of course! That's cheating! =)
I went to George Mason University and began taking general ed. classes and trying to figure out what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I made a choice, whether I knew it or not, that I was going to continue down the path of being an artist. It made me feel good. Made me happy. Made me feel like I had talent and that I was appreciated. My family was pretty supportive althought occasionally I'd get a comment from my mom like, "how about you study architecture? You can be famous architect!" Thanks mom. That was her way of trying to take drawing and art and directing it towards a very stereotypical career. Being Asian that is. I didn't mind =) She still supported me in whatever I chose to do.
I got a job as a web designer/graphic artist for a short while at a company in Fairfax. The guys taught me a great deal and I felt great about my newfound abilities as a web designer.
I also began dabbling in photography. I love looking at people! It's so interesting to me. So I did a lot of portrait-style photography.
I relocated to Los Angeles in 2007. I began studying other ways of expressing myself. I began studying acting.
Here are my websites:
Web Design and Photography:
Actor and Stuntman
