After one year of study, he completed his first painting, a portrait of his then infant son, Liu Ning-sheng, sprawled out on his stomach for a summer nap, revealing his infant buttocks. The piece was thoroughly adorable, leading Chao Chun-hsiang, a professor at National Taiwan Normal University, to exclaim, "Brilliant!"
習畫的第一年，劉其偉看到還是奶娃子的幼子劉寧生，夏天裡光著屁股趴睡的模樣，十分可愛，完成了一幅《榻榻米上熟睡的兒子》，師大老師趙春翔看了，不禁豎起大拇指讚道：「天才！」