Visual Storyteller
Eunjung Choe
I make narrative illustrations. I am inspired by my daily life, folklore stories and environmental issues. Also, I am especially interested in indie game art, so I created game characters and environmental designs based on the original game idea.
Project YUTAR
Digital
2020-2021
Description
Project YUTAR is a series of concept arts for an adventure 2d platformer game where the player plays as a robot named Joy exploring a desert-like exoplanet yutar to save hibernating people in danger by power shortage of the spacecraft system.
Background Story
In 2218 mankind began an immigration project to find a new home, and in 2228, its first immigration line reached its destination, YUTAR. However, the unexpected shock causes the spaceship to crash and prevents all crew members on board from waking up from hibernation. Then the only robot in the spaceship, “Joy”, wakes up from hibernation. In order to wake up the crew in the spaceship, “Joy” tries to repair a broken spaceship with the main computer in the spaceship. He has to help those who have migrated start the settlement project safely. The destroyed immigration spaceship is impossible to fix it because there is a lack of mechanical components. However, surprisingly, “Joy” finds that the landing planet has all the resources available to repair the spaceship. “Joy” begins his journey to repair immigration spaceship and help people.
Summer
Digital
2020
Description
The sound of cicadas is one of the signature sounds of summer in Korea. The cicadas were often attached to window screens instead of trees. That sound spreads throughout my hometown. Large-scale housing development projects and the higher energy consumption of people accelerated the urban heat island phenomenon in Seoul. The raised temperature in the city promotes the breeding of cicadas which leads to an exploding population of cicadas in the city. It reminds me that human activity directly affects nature right next to my everyday life.
Autumn
Mixed media (Digital work on oil painting)
2020
Description
Reflected leaves on a pond using digital work on scanned oil paint
Wind Power
Digital
2021
Description
One of the problems is many birds are killed by wind blades. I believe movement toward wind power stations was right. What we need is to keep moving forward to the right direction. One of the solutions for the birds killed by blades is painting one of the blades with dark color. One darker blade makes rotating blades more visible to birds so that they can keep distance from them.
Apocalypse
Digital
2021
Description
In the scene, there is a stranded vessel in the frozen water. An investigation team is gathering near the vessel to investigate. I wanted to draw an apocalyptic world in which most of the cities have frozen down due to the ice age and many artificial architectures are broken down. On the top of the image, there is a broken bridge. Also the vessel is found in the middle of frozen water which actually sank down a very long time ago.
Iris
Digital
2021
Description
This artwork is inspired by the story ‘Iris’ written by Hermann Hesse. I drew a scene in which the main character traveling to various regions finds a new world chasing the sound of a soul bird and Iris flowers in a deep forest. The soul bird and iris flowers guide him to the door of the soul in the forest of winter. As he approaches the door, surrounding vegetation is changed to green trees and grasses of spring. The soul bird is not a real bird, but the sound from his inside. So it is illustrated as a shadow of him.
