Today we’d like to introduce you to Phuoc Nguyen.
Phuoc, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always loved to draw. Most kids back then would play with toys, but for me, I would just sit there on my little desk and just draw. I knew at a young age that I would like to have a career in anything that involved art. However, as I got older, my parents slowly convinced me that being an artist isn’t financially stable. With that said, I enrolled as a mechanical engineer major. It was the most depressing years of my life. Everything changed when my supervisor sat me down and asked how I was doing in school. We had a heart to heart conversation about my life, and I realized that engineering didn’t make me happy. My supervisor had encouraged me to follow my passion and pursue my career in Graphic Design. At the time, I was already halfway through my engineering major. I dropped everything and switched my major over to Graphic Design. Ever since then, my life has been amazing. I started to find myself staying after classes, which is something I normally don’t do. I slowly fell in love with the feeling of seeing my creative visions come to life. One of the programs that I have always loved and has been sticking with me since is Photoshop. It is the closest thing that I have to painting and drawing. As I got more advanced in Photoshop, I started to let my creativity go wild, and my art is a result of that.
We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
My art is made with Adobe Photoshop. I like to combine multiple images together to create one clever image as a result. For me, I like to show my audience that there are unlimited possibilities of what something could be versus of what they are. I like to get the “oh wow” or ” I never thought of it like that” reactions. To me, since we live in an age where our attention span is really short, if I can get someone to stop and have them engage in my work, my goal is accomplished. I just want to show my audience that there are different ways to see something. You can look at it for what it is, or you can look at it as what it could be. I hope that after people look at my work, they will be encouraged to look at life from a different perspective, and these “bad days” can be turned into good days. The message from my artwork is to show kids or anybody that is scared to follow their dreams and passion. It might be scary at first, but if you work hard and believe in yourself, everything is going to be ok.
Do current events, local or global, affect your work and what you are focused on?
I think the role of artists hasn’t changed at all. If anything, these events just affect the type of work that we create. For instance, when a popular event occurs, artists will usually show their point of view with the artwork that they create. I believe that as an artist, well at least for me, the goal is to always make the world a better place by creating this beautiful artwork to show the audience that life can be beautiful depending on how you look at it.
Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
I post all my artwork on Instagram @phooknguyen. My design portfolio can be find on www.behance.net/phoucnguye5e56.
People can support me and my work by following me on Instagram or behance.
Contact Info:
- Email: phuoc_nguyen2589@yah00.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/phooknguyen
- Other: www.behance.net/phoucnguye5e56
Image Credit:
All the photos that I used to create my art is from www.pexels.com and www.unsplash.com
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