I was raised in China. About two years ago, I made a life-changing and fantastic decision to come to America and expand my horizons by studying aboard. I feel very lucky that I can pursue my fascination with children’s illustration and children’s picture book creation, while learning from my mentor Nancy Carlson. I want to study children’s picture book creation because of my obsession with listening to stories and drawing everything everywhere all the time when I was young. As I listened to stories, pictures would form in my mind at the same time. It became my passion to delineate the images as the stories emerged. My yearning for picture books both as a child and as an adult, have influenced my goal to be able to draw the stories that have accumulated in my head, which now I have the freedom and skill to represent in my work. Join the Facebook Event. Categories All Student Profile