Time Management

This is my schedule for the next few weeks:

Wed Oct 5 - Sculpture midterm.

The material is pretty easy, but our prof may very well make it very difficult.

Thu Oct 6 - Typography rough print due and midterm.

We're doing figurative typography, which is basically drawing using only type, which is rather time consuming. Midterm covers a few chapters...

Mon Oct 10 - 5 large, full-fledged drawings of ideas for our wood project--two views each.

I want to put a lot of effort into this. This will be my very first wood sculpture and I want it to be freaking awesome.

Wed Oct 12 - Small metals bracelet critique.

I basically have a week to learn how to forge a small scale axe. And then to finish everything. Also my design needs to actually be functional, so we'll see how that plays out.

Thu Oct 13 - Typography project due.

6 front and back cards: 5 illustrations, mounted onto cardstock. Also an illustration board with cards mounted on it, also a digital process binder will all sorts of progress and concepts inside.

With the proper planning and mindset to get things done, this is totally doable. But gosh looking at it all at once makes me cry.

Looking back, the sculpture project that came after live model was a hand or foot study. I did the foot because I'm awesome like that, and this is what turned out:

I've cleaned it up a bit since this picture was taken and continue to smooth it out and such as it dries.

The cool thing about this foot is that it is not the finished sculpture. This is actually a pattern for a mold that will be filled with molten iron. Heck yeah, iron pour. I can only watch, since there's all these training classes you need to do before you can participate in. (Which I will totally do once those start).

One thing that I hate about this piece, is the actually the whole thing. We're going to want to be able to lift the mold clean off, so there can't be any undercuts for it to snag on as we slide it straight up. Because of this, the side of the foot goes straight down into the base, the heel is completely lost, and the fact that the foot is extended makes it look weird.

The composition with the light switch was also completely last minute and I had been just totally frustrated for about 24 hours before turning this in. Blargh.

Whatever.

Maybe the iron pour that I actually participate in will be over something a little more special.

[breaths: in, out]

On to Small Metals. I missed last class due to the sniffles and stressing over feet shaped things, so I've almost forgotten all about it.

Luckily for you, I take pictures at the end of each day:

I may very well have to revamp how you're supposed to get it on and off. If that gap in the middle is big enough to fit ones wrist after I add the axe head, then there's no problem.

If it doesn't end up big enough and becomes silly to try to make it that way, then I'll probably make the axe chop into the end that rests on the arm, then open up the bottom.

The spikes that come in on the sides are very important to me, but they extend in past the size of my hand.

I wish I could show you my Typography progress. Trying to do illustrations of realistic faces is slightly unreasonable, so I'm doing (still very expressive) little cartoon dudes. Actually, let me take a picture of my sketches for you...

I miss my scanner. But it had decided not to connect with my computer, and I haven't needed it desperately enough to put any more effort into fixing it than I already have.

Anyway, this awkward photo shows of Gleeful dude! He's totally cute. And just as cute when made out of parentheses and D's and L's.

And the guy on the back of the page is totes freaking out. He's Panicky dude. I'm sort of excited now that I've actually started working on it and know just what I need to do. I'll post those pictures later when I'm at a computer with InDesign on it.

Alright. I am tired. I'm going to go eat a bowl of cereal (or maybe not--I'm really tired) and then go to bed.




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