Janice Chu Illustrations

Hey Hi Hello. It’s been a hot minute hasn’t it?

Hiiiii

Hi!!!

I have prints! Star Wars Prints!! :D

You can get them here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/jchu89/

Hey! I’m alive and I have a print!!!!

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/jchu89/a-ravens-sorrow

I am also dumping art I havent posted in forever

Aww thank you Daniel :) 

Haha that’s a good question. I feel like I kinda just “fell” into UI art. I enjoy doing graphic design and I learned a bit of during my time at art school. My prof was a tough one. We painted letters in gouache and it always had to be perfect. He had some cool lessons on composition which I think was super helpful. Anyways ffwd to internship times:During my internship at Digital Extremes, Warframe was just starting off and they needed someone to help out with ability power icons. So I volunteered because I enjoyed the challenge at the time. Fast forward to getting hired at Digital Extremes I did a few concept tasks and they kept assigning me UI icons because at the time no one was there to help out with the icons except for the concept artists. So I guess being the junior, I got all the UI icon stuff but I didn’t mind ( sometimes I did because I wanted to concentrate on concept stuff but eh :P ) And then I guess that’s where my UI experience really began and I kept doing icons on the side for fun like Destiny related styled icons. I also learned a ton from the UI lead at Digital Extremes (Dorian Stewart) He taught me how to use Illustrator which is VERY important if you want to be a UI artist - everything has to be vectored. If it’s not, you’re doing it wrong :P He was super picky when I was vectorizing icons, frustrating at the time, but it really paid off after. You need hawk eyes for that. Every pixel counts when you are doing a UI icon or a menu screen. 

I’ve always enjoyed graphic design (all kinds, from package design, advertising, infographics, logos, etc) so it was cool to find out that it could be incorporated into games. To me, icons is like a challenge of taking something complicated to simplifying it to its most simplified form. 

When it comes to UX though, I’m horrible lol…I’m still learning that. My main forte for a UI artist is doing the art side. It’s good to know UX but usually I think most video game companies will have a UX person (UX is where things are placed in a menu/ its functionality/ flow) 

As for wanting to learn UI art, you can always take your favourite game and try to replicate your own set of icons/ menu screens and how you would try and make it “better”  Like I mentioned before, I love Destiny’s look for their UI so I wanted to replicate some badges, banners etc for fun and see what that would be like. Another good game to study UI art is Tomb Raider - they have nice graphic simplified icons. I always look on pinterest for HUD/ UI art inspiration to study from. 

Some cool sites: 

https://www.hudsandguis.com/

https://standardsmanual.com/

A good friend gave me this book and I love it. It’s filled with a ton of beautifully designed logos. 

Elliot Gray (Bungie) https://dribbble.com/aftercompletion

Ryan Klaverweide: https://www.behance.net/Alrightok

Hi thereeeee!

I’m happy to say that I’ll be working at Blizzard on the Overwatch team. laksdnalksdnaldnakndandadkbbdhsbk! 

Im so so so grateful that I am able to join these guys. I love Overwatch and I LOVE the team that I am working with. So many people I look up to and I found out that @zorinvasili is working somewhere at Blizzard. I have looked up to him for a VERY long time.  So maybe Ill get to meet him ^____^ v

Anddd my best friend (yes, I know I said I needed one - that was my anxiety destroying me :P ) works there too and I’m so happy I get to see her like everyday and I get the greatest hugs.