The young Chou first revealed his native artistic talent under his father's tutelage; then during his school years two teachers served as his artistic mentors at different times: his junior high school art teacher Yang Chien-chung and his high school Chinese teacher Chiang Chao-shen.
在父執輩的教導下，年少時的周澄已嶄露藝術才華；其後求學過程中，引領他進入藝術殿堂的兩位老師，又各自代表兩個重要階段的開始，一是國中時期的美術老師楊乾鍾、一是高中時期的國文老師江兆申。