Although Huang has shown talent in the field of art since child hood, neither he nor his family attached much importance to it until he passed the college entrance examination and was admitted to the Economics Department of Soochow University.
從小在念書時，即展露了美術方面的天份。但在當時，他和家人都還不知道應該重視這一點。高中畢業後，他考上了東吳大學的經濟系。