3D Design

My experience in this class taught me to push myself. I like 2D art so much more and it was really hard for me to make 3D art in this class and still be satisfied with it. I tried to connect my projects with things that were important to me like the pancakes that I made remind me of my camp and the ones my mom makes every morning for breakfast. Overall I liked a couple of my pieces but definitely not everyone of them. I don't know why it was so hard for me but reflecting on my art after it was done made me push myself to make better 3D art next time.

My work has how I've improved with my 3D skills especially with clay. As you can see with my penguin and my turtle. At first I was planning on not using clay again after I made my penguin because I hated it so much, but I started to use sculpey and that helped me a lot. So I finally decided to make a sea turtle out of clay and I am proud of how it turned out. But unfortunately I was unable to finish the turtle because of the time precautions so I made a glass turtle instead.

The most challenging piece of work for me was my clay penguin. I hated that project because I am so terrible with clay, and eventually I finished it but it still doesn't look like a penguin to me. I am most proud of my plaster hand mold because first of all, it looks the best out of all of my projects, and second of all, I really liked how the colors I used worked together with the wire and it painted a picture for people to interpret. Which is what I think I like most about it. My work illustrates my strengths which are the things I am more comfortable with like painting and drawing which you can see in my growth project, and techniques and skills that I need to work on more like the sculpting with my penguin. I just need to practice and use these skills more so that i can improve them.

The tools, techniques and processes that are used to create my artwork are unique and used in many ways. With paper, you can use them in so many ways to make a 3D project, You can roll it, crumple it, twist it etc. Sculpey usually is used when you make a mold out of tinfoil and place the sculpey on top and you can form your sculpture. With clay you have to hollow your sculpture out so that it doesn't blow up in the kiln. And you can use a variety of tools with clay to add details, engrave something, hollow your clay out etc. As for other random sculpture materials and tools, you can use anything to make a sculpture and you can use your tools to create details, engravings and hollow out the clay.

Throughout my artwork, I definitely used all of the principles and elements of design even in just little ways. The main elements and principles that are more prominent in my work are texture, color, form, value, balance, contrast, pattern, rhythm and unity. Which you can see in the pictures above and my artist statements. With different projects, the criteria and expectations varied. So for something like the paper sculpture, this is the first sculpture made in 3D so the expectations are low as you are just starting to get adjusted to making 3D sculptures. But with something like your final project that holds a lot of expectations and the criteria might be more advanced and harder to meet since you've been making 3D sculptures for over 4 months. With my concentration I hope you can analyze that the concentration I chose was marine life. I chose this specific concentration because of my connection to the ocean and my love for sea creatures. As you can see with the multiple sea creature I made from a blob fish to a sea turtle. Some of them are more abstract whereas others are more concrete. I do prefer a more concrete style so it was hard getting used to making abstract work but overall I think that 3D really helped me grow as an artist and helped me to develop new skills and techniques to use in the future.