Q) What artistic roles do you like to perform.
What styles/ genres do you create in?
Dark fantasy, grimdark genres. Painted semi-realistic style
Q) How did you get your start in art, what was the first project you did that made you feel like a professional?
By accident, the first and only request on god forsaken Fiverr. I was asked to make book cover art that already caught my artistically bloodthirtsy attention when they asked for rains of blood in scene. I decided to read book a bit, Reverend Insanity, just to find changing my life and even fixed my mental health as I read it. The client was a dedicated fan trying to publish it (the book is banned in china, no official way possible). It was long and painful art that demanded me to become a lot better just to finish, but it became beloved in community and was first really personal work. Before, I had freelance works paying up to 2000$, but they didn’t feel nearly as much of an art achievement
Q) Where would you like to see yourself in five years with your art?
Principal illustrator at Blizzard sounds like a good place.
Q) What do you feel is the most important things a person should take from a piece of art?
Whatever they want. Me, for example, I really love to investigate and take out rendering methods whenever something catches my attention.
Q) Do you have a specific creative process when you are working on a piece of art?/ What are your primary inspirations when creating art?
When I find something relatable, pure in passion, it comes on itself. I can get extremely immersed – Garrosh battle cries make me genuinely want to pick up axe and fight for his cause. I put all that energy into drawing him for hours and hours, every detail. But in general, my process is often just sitting down and thinking hard about subject, until an image flashes in my mind, which I have to sketch as soon as possible, otherwise it’ll be lost. It sets general idea and composition that I rarely change.
Q) Do you have any favorite artists that you like to study for technique?
Wei Wang, Bayard Wu, Peter Lee – all the most insane artists who created all the most iconic Warcraft art. Looking at their art, I suspect I can’t even fully comprehend many of the concepts they apply, let alone master them. I steal from them all together, the way they render materials, use colors, textures, do compositions and think about art.
Q) What would your dream project be? Are there any mainstream projects you would like a chance to work on?
Hearthstone if I’m being realistic, already working to set a road there.
Q) If people want more information about you or to request a commission, where should they go?
Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/ullaseu
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ullasseu
Commission details and request: https://forms.gle/YSL4n6qbG7bFonV56
Final four questions –we ask everybody.
Q) When the zombies take over the world where will you be?
Dead within a week, I have no delusions here.
Q ) What is your favorite Fandom.
Starcraft, Warcraft, Warhammer, Divinity.
Q) What piece of art, do you think people must experience before they die?
I don’t think there is a single art piece that is universally right to experience. I’d hate for anyone to tell me or others I absolutely must see this one thing, however good it is.
Q) Give one fact that most people would not believe about you?
I wish to not leave any legacy, not a little crumb. When I die, all my artworks or books should dissapear with me.
Paper Phoenix ink 