My name is Bing, I come from China. When I was five dad introduced me to one of his friends, who is a well known artist in my hometown; many young artists were taught by him; so I started to learn drawing from him.
I came to Australia 6 years ago, then I stopped drawing & painting, I didn't touch my pencils and brushes ever since.
3 years later, I picked up my pencils again in order to make a bit of money. I did portrait drawings for people in the Perth City. I did feel my drawing skill is a bit rusty.

The drawing and painting style that my teacher taught me (except Chinese traditional style of ink painting)is from Russia, due to the reason of China was strongly influenced by Russian communism before the culture revolution.

My favorite mediums are pencil, charcoal, pastel, gouache, oil, watercolors, Chinese painting ink, plus markers which I learned from the design course.
I like to draw people from real life, and I also draw from photos.

When first time I came to Australia I find so many artists use grid or rulers to do their art works. I have never use grid or auxiliary tools in my drawings or paintings; I'm not saying that is bad, it is only because I have never been taught to create art works in that way, my teachers don’t and none of my classmates in China do. We all make art works by freehand.
But I do respect people who use grid or other fancy tools!