3D Modeling Project
For my Quarter 3 benchmark I decided to make a sculpture of a girl sitting with her arms crossed on her knees. I wanted to do this project because I wanted to challenge myself with creating this sculpture. Originally the girl is supposed to be in the cage but the cage wasn’t stable enough to use due to the wire I used for my cage. The message I want to show people with my art is that people are struggling to be who they are, and embracing their image especially now that Trump is president they feel like they have to change to be able to fit in. It’s hard for people to get through something that, so it always makes the feel many ways. I faced a lot of challenges to create it, for example the clay I used was really hard to mold into a body type form because it was drying up so I would have to keep wetting it to keep it moist. So when I first grabbed the clay I needed to come up with a way to start making the form of the girl. I tried making the body shapes but it didn’t work when I was making the arms and legs. I started with the back and the head because the head is round and when you're sitting down your back makes a rectangular shape. After I started to see the body shape forming which made me start extending the sides and mold the arms and legs. When I finished I was happy with the way it came out, but it looked to plain, I felt like I was missing something so then paint came to my mind. I used this primer first to help make the paint show more then I applied the colors and this was one achievement to make it look like an actual girl. In my perspective I don’t really think this connects to any of my previous work because of the theme sending out to my audience. I would compare this project to Amy Sherald American because the painting shows and drawing of a girl and she is proud to be an american and it makes you think about past history events that are important to America. First I started to get ideas based on something that really impacted my life, or something that really was important to get a point across. After I grabbed my sketchbook and started drawing the way I wanted to girl to look. Finally I grabbed a huge handful of clay and started molding the clay until i got the body shape I wanted, to be able to get it like that I kept making shapes with the clay putting it together and if it wasn’t right I would take it off and do it over again. A technique that’s really important that you need to know when using clay is that you need to be really like rough sometimes delicate with it if not it’s not going to turn out the way you want it to. Something new that I learned was the more wet the clay is the more easier to mess with and break it down. My work shows the way I feel sometimes so if I feel happy I would draw something really nice and if i'm upset i write about what's going on and then I just put it together. When using clay don't be afraid to get your hands dirty. It’s a really fun material to be using and you can make anything with it.
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