Drawing on his own resources After failing the exam, he enrolled in a special preparatory school in Japan to formally study drawing. The memory of what happened after that is still clear to him: "I got a perfect score, the first time anyone had done that in the 41 years since the Tokyo Academy of Art was founded."
落榜之後，陳慧坤進入日本川端畫學校正式學習素描，經過一年的努力，這一回的素描考試，「我的分數是滿分，是東京美術學校創校四十一年來的第一個，」陳慧坤清楚記得。