Schoolism Part #2 - Nathan Fowkes Environment Design (Part 1)

I knew environment design was one of my weaker areas. And so I signed up for Nathan Fowkes Environment Design class. His lesson threw you in the deep end of work pretty fast, which I actually really enjoyed. And so this post is just about the first lesson of the class. To take 10-12 images we like, and study and replicate them, within a short period of time.

Luckily I have a very large collection of images on my (Pinterest board, and so finding some images I liked proved quite easy. And so here are the 12 images I made for this assignment:

These were actually really fun, and I'm hoping to do more soon!

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