Yu-Hung Yang

Although I love drawing, I never set out to be a professional artist.

I signed up for a Pinterest account, because I learned it would be a good way to drive traffic to my blog.

While trying to create pins, I couldn't find royalty-free images that I liked. Nor could I afford to sign up for any of the nice online image libraries out there.

So one night I sat down, turned on my iPad, and decided to create my own tango images for my blog pins.

Although I always had a tough time drawing human figures, I really enjoyed the process!

So I decided to keep going with it. With 20+years of tango experience, I at least had the advantage of understanding my subject matter. As time went on, I've become better at it with consistent practice.

Like I said, I’ve always had trouble drawing human figures, because people are SO COMPLICATED!

On top of that, I can be pretty impatient and I lose concentration easily.

At age 16, I once completed a very good portrait. I knew it was good because some jerk stole it.

But since then, random doodles of superheroes represented the bulk of my accomplishments in the realm of figure-drawing. And those usually appeared on pieces of scrap paper around my desk, extra napkins I forgot to put away, or on the ma...

BS Cinema/Photography, Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)
BS Spanish, Ithaca College (Ithaca NY) and SUNY Albany (Albany, NY)
MS Digital Imaging and Design, New York University (New York, NY)