3D Design and Applied Art Taster

This week was the taster for 3D design. I didn't quite know what this entailed beforehand but now I have a good idea. To start off the week we were making paper sculptures which I enjoyed because I liked the concept of an abstract windmill I created. This was made up of a rectangle and two different sized 3D triangles. Each of these had slits in with looped pieces of card to form strips, adding detail onto the sculpture. I think this worked really effectively and looked good when using photography lighting. 

After this task came the touchy-feely project. This I didn't enjoy so much. I found that my object didn't really give me much of a challenge so I found myself adding more bits on to use up the time I had and also make it look more interesting as a stand alone object. Once placed against the real object, I could see just how different my perception was of it as it was described to me. Although I didn't particularly enjoy the task itself, I learned that trying to picture something that is being described to you is a lot harder to visualise than actually seeing it for yourself. 

As you can see, the real object in comparison to my idea of it is completely different. This is because I drew the two rectangle pieces the wrong way, otherwise it would have looked more precise. 

After doing the paper sculptures, our final day in 3D design and Applied Art was much more fun. I really enjoyed exploring the different processes of metal work as I had never done this before. I was intrigued at how plastic metal was once it was manipulated by certain methods. I think most things went reasonably well as it was purely for experimenting, so rather than making it look good I was purely exploring in the workshop, however I do think my drilling was poor and sometimes I could barely drill holes through some metals! One thing I like in particular is the wire patterns made with nails on top of the manipulated metals as it gives a final edge to my cube. Burning the cube beforehand also gave a really nice effect and added to its character.