Selecting bits from a chosen painting of ours, making 3D shapes relating to these sections of our famous painting, choosing one shape and creating enlarged cutouts/structures of it. In the end we used these pieces whilst rotating around the classroom in order to creating funky clothing relating to a word that we were told by out tutor. Eg flamboyant
Reflecting:
With each of the given tasks I got on quite well, apart from the first 2 activities. This was due to the fact that my painting did not have too many different bits to it so it was difficult to choose 5 different pieces and create shapes from them. From this it was difficult creating shapes as my image being flat did not give me much inspiration on how to create something that was related to it. However, after a period of thinking I found that it was fairly easy to create the shapes using my different paper and media. Overall I felt that at the end of each task I was happy with what I achieved on the task of creating the clothing items on the mannequin, and also the cutting out of enlarged shapes, as it was a very simple task to accomplish. (Pins and scissors were my best friends with these tasks). I received much feedback from my peers on the table next to mine as well as my own that my pointy castle structure was intriguing, especially since I created it in different types of paper including brown paper and pink, and also using markers to add colour to my plain ones. My tutors also remarked on the shapes of my pointy castle structure and gave me the developing idea of creating some at different heights and in different colours to create a variety. From the overall tasks I learnt that in order to create volume from paper or shapes from paintings, you must think outside the box as it is not easy to take a 2D drawing and turn it into a 3D piece with it's own unique depth. This could be seen as a challenge by some especially myself, as I am normally use to creating 3D images from my own technical drawings of what I am creating, and not somebody else's 2D work. Furthermore I believe that this day could help be influential in my future work by inspiring me to look more into creating 3D shapes from 2D drawings.
Analysing:
Looking back at my work, I beilive that the most successful aspect of my work today was when the final pieces on each mannequin came together to form the clothing we were meant to create at the end. I believe that this was most successful as there was a range of giant cutout shapes to work with, and the words that we had been given to design out pieces to very easy to decipher. An example of this could be seen with out flamboyant piece which was the first one that me and my partner created.
On the negative side, I was not happy with the 3D models that I had to create at the start of the day. This was because my image was very difficult to divide into different sections in order to create the different structures in 3D. I found it extremely challenging on the second piece that we had to make that the shapes that were cut out for us by the group had a very rough look and kept falling apart, which made it very difficult to manouvre and position without having pieces continuously fall over. I found the last 2 pieces that we created for the mannequins quite easy as the cutout shapes were not complicated to the point where we couldn't fit them on, but instead very basic in their geometric form which made them very easy to manipulate and bend without ruining the appearance of it.
Time maganent and planning:
I beilive that after reflecting on today's task, I could improve my current planning methods and time management by acting in a very spontaneous way instead of long thinking which wastes more designing time. This different way of acting towards the design process will block out any ideas that I may not think are fully up to scratch and because of this create and react more quickly when a task is given to us, especially within a time limit. I believe that I can learn more from my current learning patterns by experimenting with faster ideas that have little potentional instead of just one idea that has fullnornpossibly no potential because too much thought has gone into it.
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