Where did you grow up? Let's see I was born in Chinatown, LA, moved to Northridge, then to Woodland Hills, then to Calabasas, then back to Woodland Hills, then to San Jose, CA and back to Los Angeles, California. Throw in a couple Taiwan summers in there and you've got it. What brought you to art? I don't really know what brought me to art - boredom, unemployment, ADD, and/or friends. I've always been interested in art, but never thought I could really become or do art in the sense of drawing, painting, or what not. I wasn't a good artist in the typical sense and didn't really think I had any talent. So I sort of just did the college thing, studied English, and started working the daily grind. I basically had stopped drawing altogether and found myself lacking something. Anyhow, I decided to leave San Jose and move to LA, where I was unemployed for 3 months and spent my time drinking and occasionally drawing. I was encouraged by friends and my sister to draw and drink (I guess haha), and from there, it developed into me doing it more and more - the drawing, not the drinking. How often do you work in your studio? Well since I have a full time job at a museum, I typically find myself drawing after work - so forth from 3 to 4 hours a day, if I'm focused and not exhausted. Since my studio is my apartment, it can be somewhat hard at times to really sit down and do it without finding an excuse to do something else like take a nap or watch Enemy of the State again. How far away is it from where you live? Luckily it's where I live. When I wake up in the morning I can see my drawing desk . . . that's good and bad. I can also see my neighbor's eating breakfast too. How long have you been making art? I've been making art since I was eating crayons as a kid and pooping them out, but in terms of what I do now...I think it's been about a year and half with the stuff I'm doing now. What materials and tools do you use most? Blue sketch pencil, acid free paper, bixel pens from .005 to .8, an old eraser, old books ... I find myself using the eraser a lot and sometimes I manage to use parts of my brain. What's a typical day in the studio like? I come home, I change out of my work clothes, use the restroom, lie in bed, turn on the radio, check my emails, switch on the light to my desk, make dinner, and finally sit down and start inking away or sketching. What are you working on lately? I just finished up some shirt designs for Jupiterimages, a photo content company. They were looking for me to design a promotional tee shirt for a trade show in June. Also, I've been working on pieces for my collaborative show with Cole Gerst in June 2007 at Gallery Revisited. I just drew a picture of a narwhal with arrows in it. Who comes to visit you in the studio? My sister and once in a while a friend or someone interested in buying something. It's pretty much impossible to find parking in my area so basically nobody comes to visit me. What is the best thing about your studio? That I have any space at all to set aside to draw…haha. It's nice to be in the kitchen I suppose so if I'm hungry I can eat something, but I'd love a real studio space. What is the worst thing about where you work? The worst thing about it is that there's not enough space for messy projects or for a screen printing table. I want to do my own prints and even try out new things like large scale drawings. Plus, if I had a studio my friends could do their art projects there as well. What do you want to know about the next studio artist on SpyMart? I know that the next studio artist was raised by wolves, gets like three hours of sleep a day, and owns an amazing collection of polyhedron dice. Visit Michael's website at: www.michaelchsiung.com.