Murder Mystery Clown

This is my first sustained investigation for 3D design. My inquiry for these sustained investigations is how can I bring characters to life and make them noticeable or interactable in unusual ways. 

The materials I used for this project are wire for the skeleton of the clown, cotton fabric for the clothes, and some other sort of fabric for the face, hand, and feet. I'm not sure what type of fabric that is. The hair and nose of the clown are made of wool that I felted. I also used alginate to make a mold of my hand, and plaster to make the big hand on the clown. The hand was surfaced with white acrylic paint. For the eye on the fish, I used a shiny piece of black plastic, and for the eyes of the clown, I used acrylic paint. The background of the project is a wooden board that I used white and black acrylic paint on.

I started this project by making a wire skeleton that was about 20 inches tall. I made the pants of the clown first, and then tried to make the shirt by sewing it directly onto the pants. I realized that I couldn't sew the sleeves on the way I wanted to because it would end up sewing them closed, and when I sewed the front and back of the shirt together I accidently sewed the pants into it. I ripped that part of the shirt off and just sewed a new one separately. I made an oval shaped body with white fabric to put of the torso of the wire skeleton, and I stuffed that before putting the clothes on. I glued the clothes on with hot glue. I attached the head the same way, and then wrapped fuzzy string around the neck to hide the mess. I made the collar ruffle and the ruffle on the bottom of the shirt by taking a very long strip of fabric and putting a shorter piece of thread through it. I folded it over and glued it on. I decided to add the wooden board in the back when I realized that I could make it look like it was reaching out. I had a board that already had hanging hard wear on the back of it, so I painted it like a checkerboard. The plaster hand fit directly into the special sleeve that I made for it, but the wire wasn't stable enough to hold it up. I found a wooden stick to hold up the hand and carved out the bottom part of the hand and glued it in. I was going to drill a hole in the board to put the wooden stick in, but I got impatient so I gouged it out with a needle tool. I had to cut a hole in the bottom of the sleeve in order for the stick to fit in, and then I glued the whole clown down onto the board. I sewed a red fish that is meant to resemble a red herring in order to tie in the noticeable/interactive part. The clown died and it's like a murder mystery, but the clown is directly handing you a literal red herring.