Reflection
Before starting Figurative Modelling, I wanted to be able to improve my knowledge on the human body. Plus, with there being able to attend regular life drawing lessons I was really looking forward to improving my skills within the human form.
Using clay was something I haven’t done since comprehensive school but I managed to get back into the groove with it, and with my new found skills within art I feel like I have improved my skills within Clay again.
This has given me some ideas within animation, especially when we created the clay hand, I can make an animation based on something along those lines, since I had a lot of fun making the clay hand as well as how much a hand can be animated.
If I had to say one thing that I think as an experience Sewing was something, I was hesitant to do since I was worried if I ruined it id must restart from the beginning. So, I feel like sewing isn’t something id be interested in perusing.
for the final group project, I was really pleased with how it turned out,
I liked being able to work in a group as well as bouncing ideas off one another, seeing different viewpoints, and coming up with the best final product.
Overall, I feel that Figurative Modelling has helped me gain a better fuller understanding on the human body, especially with Life Drawing. The constant rough sketches I feel helped me not care about the final product but helped me gain a better understanding on how to get the most important and basic parts of the human body.
Mark MakingÂ
I really enjoyed creating different textures with clay, pens, pencils and Paint. noticing little details you wouldnt have if you didnt focus on looking for those textures was fun for me to notice.
One of those textures that i noticed would have to be the unintentional marks from the clay that would stain the paper we used. I noticed those stains and it made me think of it as we always leave our mark on people even if it was unintended, how you acted and what you did with them leaves a mark.
Sewing Arm
For a first time effort with sewing i felt that i did a pretty good job with it. being able to use a sewing machine was complex but fun to learn how to use. this was then filled with plaster. I found that adding the plaster was both fun but a tad stressful since i wasnt quite used to using that type of material and the timeframe to make sure it doesnt harden before i could finish.Â
Sewing Foot
Just like the Arm im happy with how ive sort of got the hang of sewing, especially now since i tried to create a more 3D foot.
Head
Firstly i wish i took more photos of before i got around to the general head shape i made.
But other than that i am happy with what i have created. getting the head to appear humanesque as well as putting in the facial features correctly but somehow makes the head appear not as human as i wanted and more like something trying to replicate a human and doing a horrible job in doing so.
Clay Hand
Honesty i cant even beleive how well i managed to create a hand. Normally when i draw hands i cant seems to make them look like them, but with clay somehow it was way easier. For a first attempt i think i hit it out of the ball park. if i can replicate this in my animation work id love to make an animation with clay hands.
Slab and Slip Mug
The slap work i found to be a bit too abstract for my liking. i felt that it was a little confusing and that putting them all together a little randomly made the object look like a bit of a mess. But the positives i found when doing this was working in a team and talking to each other about what to add and where to add our different slabs. as much as it is nice to work alone on my own artistic works its also a wonderful to just chat with and gain ideas from others and was a nice change.
Final (Bringing Objects Together)
The final group work i found to be really fun, being able to work as a group and use our items that we made throughout out time in feild was an interesting exorsise.
One of my favourites was the Black glove i noticed from the start and i thought to myself “i have to dunk that” so after i went ahead and dunked the glove into the mix and i hung it up it gave off a really nice patchy effect, like a rorschach test on an arm. Plus having all the white be mostly located on the lower part of the arm while the top being black its like a juxtaposition of heaven and hell where we’ve always thought up being light while down being dark.
Life Drawings
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