Square Texture Critique

Alright, my end results didnt turn out nearly as impressive as i planned it out to be, i should have spent more time. The group said that it was a little plain  ( like a small 3-D), it could have popped out more, the edges could be cleaned up more. The gradation of the cardboard would have looked much more intentional and straight if they were all aligned the same way. If you look closely you'll see the word resist in the small cut-out of the squares. They like this because everything feels like its centered around that word, Kathy i believe said, " the word placement highlights the conflict."
       The Accordion Book
No picture yet, have to wait and see what i made on it cause i got it to kathy late :( and of course i am behind on my blogs. The first thing you notice about my accordion book is how sloppy it was thrown together at first, i was in a rush and i couldn't get the dang things glued together so that was the first thing on my list to do. Overall they told me to clean it up a bit, straighten it out, and make it (shiny)<--PJ i dont know why, he said it would make people more drawn to it lol. Everyone seemed to think that i had good variety of textures and that i put them all in the right places amongst one another.

Human Composition

Cardboard Critique

The Acorn Top!

My first thoughts on getting the acorn top for the project was "man, this is going to be a piece of cake!" but once i set down at actually looked at it up close, it became more of a nuisance. The acorn has a small triangular design from the stem to the base all fused together to make the half of a sphere. On these triangles the sides and the tops were lined with a white stripe down every individual piece and that’s where I realized its going to take a while to make. Once I got how I wanted to cut the pieces out down I ran into a problem while I was piecing them to the core/stem. I made my way work but it was very difficult to get the pieces where I wanted them exactly and it was hard to keep it all glued down. If I would have started over I would have started gluing from the bottom base to the stem that way I could get the spherical look to it instead of kind of blocky. But overall I had a really fun time doing this. I cant wait to do the monologue!!!

Playful and Periodic Top 8

Playful and Periodic, you can definitely tell which is which. I have to start off by saying OH MY GOD! This was sooo much easier than doing circles, I love straight lines :P its so much simpler. Anyways, I chose the top two as my final two specifically because I feel that I was most creative on those two. I actually spent time on the final two so get it as sleek as I could and I think I did a good job. The playful squares, although they are organized to an extent, makes me think of boxes jumping over one another like leap frog. I chose that periodic one because I felt it was easy to see the pattern like tiles on a floor.

Cardboard Object

Well as you know i have an acorn top. I thought about it and i noticed that there are little triangular pieces of bark piecing the whole top together. I had start with a core so that’s what I started on day one, cutting out triangle and put the center together.

Cardboard Nature Studies

This is the object that i got to do my project on, its the top to an acorn nut.

Final 4 and Critique

I’ll admit, as soon as we were assigned this project I honestly thought it was going to be a breeze. I got all of my sketches done pretty quickly and didn’t have much trouble representing the different principals, or so I thought… I didn’t realize how long it would take to actually draw the squares out and go over them with sharpie. After the gruesome, painstaking hours of drawing circles and curved lines, i dug through all them trying to find the top four since i missed class the day the groups chose :/. I feel these were the best because they were the most precise and sleek looking and they all represent the principal i was aiming for decently, they all contain a good variation of sizes also. Some of my circles are a little off center but I tried to be symmetric to an extent with most of them. I could have taken a little more time to make sure that my final four were flawless but… I never want to draw circles for a month!! (at least). I could have made my lines a little more definite and smooth that way it wouldn’t be a little edgy looking. I don’t think I used the negative space as well as I should have, it just feels too empty and off lever in some places. If i had to redo this project i would most likely consider using construction paper instead of drawing with sharpie because it would be much cleaner and would have saved me a lot more time, and it would look more professional in my eyes.