Meet Christine Choi

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Christine Choi. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Christine below.

Christine, appreciate you making time for us and sharing your wisdom with the community. So many of us go through similar pain points throughout our journeys and so hearing about how others overcame obstacles can be helpful. One of those struggles is keeping creativity alive despite all the stresses, challenges and problems we might be dealing with. How do you keep your creativity alive?

Creativity to me is defined by one’s ability to identify multiple different solutions to a problem, and is one of the most important skills anyone working a creative discipline has to practise. A mistake I made and continue to struggle with when exercising creativity is limiting what it is I expose myself to, whether it be the media I consume or the kind of people I talk to; different people with different life experiences think differently, and can offer insight and appreciation for things I would not have otherwise caught on, which also helps with creative blocks down the line.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I design characters for video games. I wanted to be a fashion designer since I was 3, and have always appreciated video games as a medium. It’s hardly a unique perspective, but it’s kind of fun to see people engage with a thing I worked on, wondering if there’s anyone out there like me who was inspired and/or disappointed enough by the art and effort put into a game to want to try their hand at participating in game development.
I’m not really allowed to talk about the projects I am working on at the moment but if you want to check out some of my work or read my bad media takes you can follow me on instagram (@asphodelles) or twitter (@asphodellesart)

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Tips for beginner artists interested in the entertainment industry:

Qualities:
– Don’t be a dick/deliberately initiate unnecessary conflict, the entertainment industry is too small for you to be making enemies
– That’s really it

Technical skill:
– Draw environments, I’ve gotten passed up on job opportunities for specializing into character design too much
– Don’t overthink perspective
– Learn to draw horses

Areas of knowledge:
– Study world history and study how different societies responded to historical events (culture, art, economy, etc.)
– Study the artists you like, figure out what it is you like about their work and how they applied their inspirations to it
– Study An amount of economics. This isn’t going to help creatively, it will just prepare you for the inevitable slumps that will hit the industry and help you weather them + understand the factors that inform hiring/firing trends

What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Any advice or strategies?

This probably isn’t the most responsible advice as someone who graduated from an institution with a notoriously militaristic curriculum, but when I’m creatively overwhelmed I just power through, remind myself not to put the same emotional stake in work like I would in my personal work, and imagine how in several weeks I will never have to look at whatever I’m working on ever again.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://asphodelles.carrd.co
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asphodelles/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asphodelles/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/asphodellesart

Image Credits

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