Yeah, it's kind of, I guess I've kind of , it's a fun, it's like awesome, it's kind of a cool story
But I was born in Chinatown downtown LA, I'm Chinese, I was born in the US.
You know I was born in Chinatown, but I grew up in the valley.
And sort of, I've always been like mixed up between cultures and I really feel like I'm a product of California.
To an extent it does sort of influence my art, cause I think the things I do draw about
are a little bit tied to like just growing up out here, with,
you know, skateboarding, the weather, you know, drugs,
like all these types of things are connected to like California, I think just growing up here,
so I think it does like see through my art a little bit.
You know, I did everything, I was supposed to do I went to school i
I wasn't the best student and I went to college and I got really into it.
And then from there I graduated, I worked, you know, in schools, I worked everywhere.
I just, you know, something was like totally mising, I mean every time I was in my suit I felt like
I was a kid like impersonating in like this weird world.
You know, I just never felt like, I fit in into that whole setting.
I think the last job I had was a private investigator, I was like a typist,
I was just working in a like a business park, in office with like ex-cops and stuff, it was just terrible.
So then I decided, I would move back to LA, figure out what it was I wanted to do again.
Between like hangovers and just having nothing to do I would just start drawing.
And then from that point on, I just decided to sort of like focus more on doing art, you know,
like once I did art and started drawing and, you know, doing that like
feel like a really opened up like just everything from me.
Yeah, I found a way to make myself really happy by making things that make other people really happy.
Maybe not take life so seriously.
I mean some artists probably have a clear idea of what they want to draw,
a lot of times I sketch out shapes and I just draw like blobs, you know, I'm just building out of it,
even if I draw a character or a person's face, I'm always adding to it and then I'll kind of like let it sit.
It's always changing as I am doing it, you know, I'll think of something else, oh yeah, I'll add this, or like,
or what if I put this in, so they kind of evolve and grow.
And then at the end it's just like I'm always sort of still adding things as they go,
so the original sketch usually doesn't come out to be like the final.
I don't know, you know, I kinda like the idea of being on everyday objects or people being able to use it.
I don't mind, I don't care if people have my art on something and destroy it, you know.
It's not really meant to just, like I don't know, get into deeper thoughts, it's like they are supposed and enjoy it.
People usually laugh, or crack up and go, "Dude, I love it or this thing it makes me laugh
every time I see it, smile every time I see it. That's like, that's awesome for me.
It's not like a Rembrant, it's like, it's like "Oh, this red dude, like I can make art too," you know,
I can create characters and funny stuff as well, I don't have to make a museum painting,
or, you know, be super technically good like, I can just take a pen and paper and draw something.
To be unsuccessful is to be like, to give it up, to stop doing it, to just, you know, work, to become a robot,
or do whatever, and just never go back, and think, that, that's not possible, you know.