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+  "text": " Here's the flattering forms exercise. In this lesson and exercise, we talked about the curve to straight trick. We talked about the balance between organic and geometric shapes. We also discussed turning organic shapes into abstracted forms and how to interpret them. And we used a few shape layers to create these shapes to keep it more geometric. We also discussed like where are you leading the eye? One thing I was seeing kind of consistently across a lot of these illustrations was that There's lots of big black shapes everywhere that kind of distract your eye because they're so heavy. Like especially in this first student and this third student, we see big blocks of black. And what I wanna emphasize here is that especially when we're creating something abstract, things don't have to be based in reality. We don't have to have a black computer screen. We could make this laptop screen blue if we wanted, which would actually kind of frame up the whole illustration a little bit nicer. You can even have this, not even have a keyboard and it could just be white and that would kind of balance out the whole thing a little bit better. You can spread that white throughout, make it kind of frame this computer here. And we felt like this monitor screen was really bold and big and in your face and too black. We could break that up by actually putting a little bit of line work in it maybe. So I'm just gonna turn this into a line work piece instead of the screen itself and resize it to fit in it. So even having that line work there kind of breaks up the frame slightly, spreads out the composition a bit. I think we're feeling some unwanted negative space down here. So perhaps we move the keyboard down slightly. In turn, we'd have to turn this, move this cable slightly as well. But I think that kind of spreads out the space little more evenly and leads the eye better. For this piece especially, I wanna point out that too many angles can kind of create a mood that you're not wanting, like harsh or aggressive. I think this frame could definitely benefit from having a few less harsh angles. Like maybe overall, we just don't make the table as intensely angled because it's really like counter balancing away from the computer here. So in turn, we'd probably have to move this cup down slightly and that feels a little less harsh. Like you could even play with the tablet here. Unless that's a look they were wanting to go for, which is totally fine, but I think it's a little less distracting if we just soften some of those angles up. Especially if the point of your illustration is to showcase your workspace, you wanna kind of showcase the things that matter rather than like that aggressiveness. There's also a few tangents in here that I'm not really loving. I think that we kind of want to avoid having these like awkward tangents where things meet up and kind of create some visual tension. So I'm thinking for this, this headphone piece, we could just kind of pull this out slightly and extend it. And that already feels slightly better. And we kind of also have that like going up here with this little line. So maybe just pull that down slightly. Just kind of given everything a little bit more room to breathe. But overall, I really liked how this student was getting creative with abstracting their shapes. I love this like overlay interaction that's happening here. And we see that all throughout this piece here, it's given a little bit of stylization. I like the half tone texture, that's totally unique. And I don't see that very often. So I think overall this illustration is really killer. And I love that the student is playing with style and getting really funky. For the second student, I really just wanted to say that I love that they're playing with different perspectives. We see kind of this flattened computer, but then we see the side angle of this object here and even a top down three quarter angle of this filing structure here. I also love that they're using the desk as like a frame that kind of limits the edge of things. So we don't actually have to see the edge of this lamp. It's kind of a neat way to play with it. The only thing that I would say for this one, I think it would benefit from some overlap. All of these objects are kind of just floating on their own. If we could play with having those objects interacting a bit more and actually meeting each other in space, that could be a cool way of bringing it together a little bit more cohesively. Because right now it kind of feels like everything is its own piece of the illustration and not working together. So maybe I move this down, maybe scale it up a slightly. It'd be kind of interesting to kind of break up some of these angles too and not have everything be perfectly aligned to the desk. But they did a great job separating everything and all their layers so it was really easy for me to move stuff around here. I really like this thin line they were playing with for the computer here. So maybe we use that for this tablet as well. Be nice to kind of carry that throughout the piece. I love that they played with this texture here, this kind of spray texture. And we're going to go a lot further into detail on adding that texture and how to create dimension and everything in future lessons. But just real quick, I think that it could be really nice to add a little bit of a highlight here to just give it a little bit more roundness. And I can mask that out pretty easily. So that's that helps with that dimension a bit, carries it through. What if we even carried through some of that little line work into these papers here? So I'm just changing the proportion of a few things to make the composition and feel a little bit stronger. I think increasing the size of a lot of stuff is gonna help so that they don't all feel like they're kind of standing alone in the middle of the desk. Filling up that space helps a ton. And I mean, one of the best ways to do that is just to make things a little bit bigger, especially this computer, because it's kind of the main piece of the illustration. And I know I'm getting the texture all kind of messed up here, but it's more just to illustrate to you how we could compositionally change things around. But I think overall that already feels even stronger. We've got the line carrying through everywhere. We've added a bit more dimension and we've tightened up the composition slightly to make it feel more of like a cohesive piece. But I really loved what the student did and I think all these objects were great. It was just missing a little bit of like compositional strength. Some tips to keep in mind for future projects. So for this third students project, I really love the stylized look they're going for with these more flattened objects. Everything's a little bit more like squished vertically, which I like. Everything's pretty long and narrow and we've got that feeling kind of throughout in both the desk, the keyboard and the monitors. But there's a couple of things I wanna point out. The same thing I pointed out with this first student is that there's this big huge block of black color in here that I really feel that it could be improved. Maybe it's blue rather than this big black shape. So we don't actually get distracted by how much black is there. And also kind of frames the computer, which is the main point of focus. And on top of that, between these two computers, this is really, really tight tension and tangent between them. That just makes it feel pretty uncomfortable and awkward. So I'm gonna kind of reshape some of these things. Maybe the computer monitor isn't so wide and we kind of move it away from the second monitor a bit. But I do love what the student is doing with texture. I can see they're playing with that and using a clipping mask for that, it would be nice if they were labeled. So we should probably label these things just so the animator could potentially know what they are and delete these empty layers here. But I love that they're using this blue color for it and we've got the same texture kind of scattered throughout. So it feels pretty cohesive. The one thing that is kind of missing is a balance between organic and geometric shapes. We don't really see much curve in here. This is all a lot of very, very sharp rectangular shapes. So maybe we just add in a plant or something else organic in here, but I always kind of default go with plants just to kind of break that up a bit because it does feel very, very structured right now. I also wanna add a bit of that overlap in that we were talking about with the last student as well. But I would probably use a different pen tool, but this is just the one I got right now. So this is what I'm using. So maybe it's just in a little vase. And it doesn't need to be a plant. Perhaps they could use another lamp shape because this kind of has some nice soft curve to it or maybe there's something else on their desk. Like looking at the photo here, we actually see a really organic shape with the mouse. So perhaps we play around with that and we add in kind of like an organic shaped mouse. So there's a little mouse that kind of breaks up these really sharp angular shapes right here and we've got the plant. So that kind of also elongated and reflects what we're seeing with this monitor on the left here. I love that they're playing with light and applying that here. this tangent is a little awkward so I'm just gonna pull this down so it meets the bottom of the lamp. And then this line is kind of bothering me slightly. They just should probably just be a little bit more cleaned up. Perhaps that could be a bezier instead. So overall it's slightly improved but I think all the foundations were there. I'm actually super happy with all of the student projects from this exercise. Like everyone was doing something different. Everyone has been playing around with composition and I haven't seen too many crazy tangent so I love what I'm seeing.",
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+      "text": " Here's the flattering forms exercise. In this lesson and exercise, we talked about the curve to straight trick. We talked about the balance between organic and geometric shapes. We also discussed turning organic shapes into abstracted forms and how to interpret them. And we used a few shape layers to create these shapes to keep it more geometric. We also discussed like where are you leading the eye? One thing I was seeing kind of consistently across a lot of these illustrations was that There's lots of big black shapes everywhere that kind of distract your eye because they're so heavy. Like especially in this first student and this third student, we see big blocks of black. And what I wanna emphasize here is that especially when we're creating something abstract, things don't have to be based in reality. We don't have to have a black computer screen. We could make this laptop screen blue if we wanted, which would actually kind of frame up the whole illustration a little bit nicer. You can even have this, not even have a keyboard and it could just be white and that would kind of balance out the whole thing a little bit better. You can spread that white throughout, make it kind of frame this computer here. And we felt like this monitor screen was really bold and big and in your face and too black. We could break that up by actually putting a little bit of line work in it maybe. So I'm just gonna turn this into a line work piece instead of the screen itself and resize it to fit in it. So even having that line work there kind of breaks up the frame slightly, spreads out the composition a bit. I think we're feeling some unwanted negative space down here. So perhaps we move the keyboard down slightly. In turn, we'd have to turn this, move this cable slightly as well. But I think that kind of spreads out the space little more evenly and leads the eye better. For this piece especially, I wanna point out that too many angles can kind of create a mood that you're not wanting, like harsh or aggressive. I think this frame could definitely benefit from having a few less harsh angles. Like maybe overall, we just don't make the table as intensely angled because it's really like counter balancing away from the computer here. So in turn, we'd probably have to move this cup down slightly and that feels a little less harsh. Like you could even play with the tablet here. Unless that's a look they were wanting to go for, which is totally fine, but I think it's a little less distracting if we just soften some of those angles up. Especially if the point of your illustration is to showcase your workspace, you wanna kind of showcase the things that matter rather than like that aggressiveness. There's also a few tangents in here that I'm not really loving. I think that we kind of want to avoid having these like awkward tangents where things meet up and kind of create some visual tension. So I'm thinking for this, this headphone piece, we could just kind of pull this out slightly and extend it. And that already feels slightly better. And we kind of also have that like going up here with this little line. So maybe just pull that down slightly. Just kind of given everything a little bit more room to breathe. But overall, I really liked how this student was getting creative with abstracting their shapes. I love this like overlay interaction that's happening here. And we see that all throughout this piece here, it's given a little bit of stylization. I like the half tone texture, that's totally unique. And I don't see that very often. So I think overall this illustration is really killer. And I love that the student is playing with style and getting really funky. For the second student, I really just wanted to say that I love that they're playing with different perspectives. We see kind of this flattened computer, but then we see the side angle of this object here and even a top down three quarter angle of this filing structure here. I also love that they're using the desk as like a frame that kind of limits the edge of things. So we don't actually have to see the edge of this lamp. It's kind of a neat way to play with it. The only thing that I would say for this one, I think it would benefit from some overlap. All of these objects are kind of just floating on their own. If we could play with having those objects interacting a bit more and actually meeting each other in space, that could be a cool way of bringing it together a little bit more cohesively. Because right now it kind of feels like everything is its own piece of the illustration and not working together. So maybe I move this down, maybe scale it up a slightly. It'd be kind of interesting to kind of break up some of these angles too and not have everything be perfectly aligned to the desk. But they did a great job separating everything and all their layers so it was really easy for me to move stuff around here. I really like this thin line they were playing with for the computer here. So maybe we use that for this tablet as well. Be nice to kind of carry that throughout the piece. I love that they played with this texture here, this kind of spray texture. And we're going to go a lot further into detail on adding that texture and how to create dimension and everything in future lessons. But just real quick, I think that it could be really nice to add a little bit of a highlight here to just give it a little bit more roundness. And I can mask that out pretty easily. So that's that helps with that dimension a bit, carries it through. What if we even carried through some of that little line work into these papers here? So I'm just changing the proportion of a few things to make the composition and feel a little bit stronger. I think increasing the size of a lot of stuff is gonna help so that they don't all feel like they're kind of standing alone in the middle of the desk. Filling up that space helps a ton. And I mean, one of the best ways to do that is just to make things a little bit bigger, especially this computer, because it's kind of the main piece of the illustration. And I know I'm getting the texture all kind of messed up here, but it's more just to illustrate to you how we could compositionally change things around. But I think overall that already feels even stronger. We've got the line carrying through everywhere. We've added a bit more dimension and we've tightened up the composition slightly to make it feel more of like a cohesive piece. But I really loved what the student did and I think all these objects were great. It was just missing a little bit of like compositional strength. Some tips to keep in mind for future projects. So for this third students project, I really love the stylized look they're going for with these more flattened objects. Everything's a little bit more like squished vertically, which I like. Everything's pretty long and narrow and we've got that feeling kind of throughout in both the desk, the keyboard and the monitors. But there's a couple of things I wanna point out. The same thing I pointed out with this first student is that there's this big huge block of black color in here that I really feel that it could be improved. Maybe it's blue rather than this big black shape. So we don't actually get distracted by how much black is there. And also kind of frames the computer, which is the main point of focus. And on top of that, between these two computers, this is really, really tight tension and tangent between them. That just makes it feel pretty uncomfortable and awkward. So I'm gonna kind of reshape some of these things. Maybe the computer monitor isn't so wide and we kind of move it away from the second monitor a bit. But I do love what the student is doing with texture. I can see they're playing with that and using a clipping mask for that, it would be nice if they were labeled. So we should probably label these things just so the animator could potentially know what they are and delete these empty layers here. But I love that they're using this blue color for it and we've got the same texture kind of scattered throughout. So it feels pretty cohesive. The one thing that is kind of missing is a balance between organic and geometric shapes. We don't really see much curve in here. This is all a lot of very, very sharp rectangular shapes. So maybe we just add in a plant or something else organic in here, but I always kind of default go with plants just to kind of break that up a bit because it does feel very, very structured right now. I also wanna add a bit of that overlap in that we were talking about with the last student as well. But I would probably use a different pen tool, but this is just the one I got right now. So this is what I'm using. So maybe it's just in a little vase. And it doesn't need to be a plant. Perhaps they could use another lamp shape because this kind of has some nice soft curve to it or maybe there's something else on their desk. Like looking at the photo here, we actually see a really organic shape with the mouse. So perhaps we play around with that and we add in kind of like an organic shaped mouse. So there's a little mouse that kind of breaks up these really sharp angular shapes right here and we've got the plant. So that kind of also elongated and reflects what we're seeing with this monitor on the left here. I love that they're playing with light and applying that here. this tangent is a little awkward so I'm just gonna pull this down so it meets the bottom of the lamp. And then this line is kind of bothering me slightly. They just should probably just be a little bit more cleaned up. Perhaps that could be a bezier instead. So overall it's slightly improved but I think all the foundations were there. I'm actually super happy with all of the student projects from this exercise. Like everyone was doing something different. Everyone has been playing around with composition and I haven't seen too many crazy tangent so I love what I'm seeing."
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