For this project I chose one of my favorite hobbies which is playing videogames. I thought it would be more interesting to create an HUD of a person playing a videogame. I found this project to be pretty easy. I chose to darken the background to make the television brighter and I used bright colors for the icons to convey feminity in a very masculine hobby. I think if I can do anything differently, I would turn the lights off before taking the picture to enhance the effect. I think I would also use more than just shapes to create the icon.
This has a good concept about making a contrasting image of a feminized image of a masculine act of playing a violent video game; however, I think that there could have been better choices in the execution. For example, it might have been better if the image on the television was the actual gameplay to accentuate the contrast in the violence to the feminine icons. Also, some of the icons deter from this critique, like needing a shield bar or a map to load a video game. Also, although I am aware your goal of making some of the meters more feminine, I feel like you might have contradicted yourself by being so stereotypical in your icon choices.
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