Planes

Here is all my preliminary models that I made for our planes project. The outline for this project is that we had to have 4 planes, Base plane - which is the bottom of the plane that would be normally be on the base of the object, a depth plane - which is like a base plane but is the "containment" plane for the base plane generally is above the base plane. We had to have a portrait and landscape plane. Additionally we had to have an exterior and interior space and a hole in one of the planes. In the beginning I had a hard time with how to make an exterior I kept thinking as long as there is something I thought of was an exterior I was okay. But I soon realized that making an exterior had to do a specific thing. How I though of an exterior and what I kept telling myself was to "make a corner of a cube". It had to 'keep people out' in a sense to become an exterior. once I got that down I played with a few principles that I learned from 2-d and our solids project. I played with attitude of the planes, spatial intervals, inscribing, connection types and a few others. I love the look of inscribing and decided I wanted to take that and make it a very big process of my sculpture. My final sculpture ended up closely related to the bottom left model that is in my process images.

Here is the final pictures from the planed project. Overall I had a lot of fun designing my sculpture and watching it come together was super cool! I feel like the inscribing I included into the sculpture helped this design in a outstanding way. I ended up painting it even though we did not have to but I did just because I like how it gives it a unified finish and brings out the inscription that are in my piece. I did have an issue with the landscape plane that was the only part that gave me the hardest time. I drilled to far through with the counter sink and had to glue another piece to the base plane to fix my mistake. It worked but then after I glued it in and screwed it I realized after it was too late that it shifted ever so slightly to make it not a 90 degree connection which is something I hope to be able to fix if I can get it unscrewed and unglued. At certain angles it does not affect the piece but if you view it to where it lines up with the 90 degree portrait piece you can tell that it is not at that ideal 90 degrees. I love the look of my sculpture and feel that this is definitely something that could be a large scale work at a park or at a center city park I just wish that I would have saw the mistake before it was too late.

Solids

The top images are wip's that are combining the foam together to make a more solid rather than a plane or line. I then imitated the figure onto the square foam pieces to make a outline to have help when sculpting my peaces for assembly.

The four images show the 3-D object in the round with various shadows and angles that I feel make the image very interesting. The shadows the come from the different shapes that are hidden in the work make very pleasing object to look at. I love the contrast in size between the large object falling over vs. the small object keeping everything tied down. I ended up using rocks and some change to help keep the object from toppling over due to the drastic difference in size that i would say is the hardest thing for me to accomplish. Making sure it was not too heavy and that it looks like nothing is inside the smaller object was a huge success in my opinion and I am very happy with how this image turned out!

This is the second work through of the solids project focused on the surface quality more than anything. I decided to keep the same design due to the fact that even though it is slightly linear in one viewpoint I believe it was interesting enough in the round to not change the design. Like I stated the surface quality was the biggest draw back from the first assignment. Though everything was smooth and for the most part the same surface quality I decided to take a more stone/marble look for the final product which was more of the look I originally wanted to go for. I ran into a problem during the connection part, during that one side of the object looks to be one full object which is a easy fix. Taking a file to the one side would be able to extenuate the connection on the two object for a more dynamic look. Another issue I ran in to us the weight distribution. The way I orientated the larger object kept making the sculpture tip over. To help counter balance this the smaller object that is suspended on the middle object has 4 rocks set into the object to balance out the sculpture. Overall reworking this design was a good idea, it came out almost exactly how I pictured it to come out like.