Drawing with Daniel W.

Furious Fox Sword & Defense

Teaching Korean Karate (ITF/WT Taekwondo & Tangsoodo), Hapkido, and Haidong Gumdo (Asian Sword) with over 30 years experience in the martial arts and global training/teaching.

Cycle Force

• E-Commerce specialist (Shopify) for various entry-level to high-end bicycle product brands • Corporate, customer service, e-commerce website designer/developer • Graphic designer for print and digital in-house company projects including logo design, product showcase catalog, sales info sheet, photo enhancement, etc.

LT Christian School

• Taught basic and digital art to middle/high school students in a private institution in both physical and virtual classroom settings • Developed engaging lesson plans that incorporated a variety of art techniques while emphasizing critical thinking skills • Facilitated group discussions among students about their artwork, providing constructive feedback • Encouraged creativity by inspiring students to think outside the box when approaching tasks

Kara Christian School

• Taught art and organized extra-curricular art clubs for private school students • Taught non-art related subjects with live rapid illustration whiteboard marker sketch skills as a means to instantaneously fill student understanding gaps in a bilingual learning environment • Used art therapy techniques for calming and focusing student emotional energy in the classroom

World Haidong Gumdo Federation Headquarters

2015-19 Full-time/Part-time sword instructor at the Jeongja dojang 2024 (3 month visitation) Full-time instructor at the Jeonga/Pangyo dojangs

Chungkang College of Cultural Industries

Training them to be better artists, better designers, better thinkers and better communicators in the world of creativity. Curriculum taught: Character Design | Fundamentals of Design | Creative Thinking | Photoshop & Digital Imaging | Drawing & Daily Sketch • Full-time foreign professor lectured and developed curriculum in design fundamentals, fine arts and graphic software applications for 6 semesters • Communicated on behalf of college to academic and professional institutions in the Western hemisphere – especially USA and GBR • Assisted in the creation, hiring and managing of on-campus life learning Language and Culture Center

Daniel.Wathen.Arts

• Print marketing materials such as menus, brochures, flyers, posters, banners, and publication advertisements • Creative visual art, illustrations, animations, character designs, 2D/3D artistic assets, video and photo editing • Diverse clientele network such as game studios, university dept's, authors, small business clients, missionaries, etc. through online freelance work platforms and my personally developed client list derived from a world traveled digital nomad

The Illinois Institute of Art-Schaumburg

3D Training Institute

Production Based Course in Autodesk 3D Studio Max software was taken and successfully completed. It was a skill updating course. I had already mastered these sort of skills prior to taking this course, but exposure to some valuable insights, strategies and techniques was acquired.

Universal Martial Arts Systems

Master certification in open-hand martial arts. Korean Karate and Hapkido

World Haidong Gumdo Federation

Official Korean WHGF national instructor license and master level 4th degree black belt sword instructor certification

Limited Proficiency