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Monster project
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I chose this monster because I thought it was cool looking and I wanted to challenge myself with a snake like body,
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I started out with a snake a snake like structure which I roughly rolled out some clay and kept adding on and shaping until it was my desired shape.
slowly I added individual parts of the monster. I started with shaping the pair of wings off of the body, and then attaching them to the monster
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what went surprisingly well so I continued on with the teeth which were probably the most challenging part of this project since they're small and I have to fit them into the small mouth without damaging the ones that are already attached there.
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​ finally and probably my most favorite part is the detailing of the small indents and scale-like details on the picture. I made small intense all along the back all the way to the tail.
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​ underglazing the monster was fairly easy since it was mostly primary colors, the only challenge I had was getting the wings from all sides. I also added on the black tongue and made the eyes look better with under glaze. then I clear glazed the entire thing.
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​ i feel fairly satisfied with how my project came out. I do wish I got a little bit more creative with it even though it matches the picture well and is pretty accurate, next time I want to add more detail and work into my monster.
Collaboration piece
For our collaboration piece with Miss Ruby's English class, I am collaborating with... We decided to design a beefy-looking cyclops. this character from The Odyssey is described as very big kind of mean and herding sheep and goats.
​ i thought this was cool because since I was working with a 15-year-old or 14-year-old boy it was a little bit hard for me to connect since we are from very different worlds. I think this project plan may get him more excited about the actual piece.
I started off with a human-like figure or outline of a human I made sure to make broad shoulders. Then I realized that it would be pretty hard to have the figure stand up by itself so I decided to have it stand on a platform instead. I also thought about the fact that having long limbs as the base would be hard as well so I decided to have the man only be visible from the knees up.
I decided to have Cliff like rocks surround the knees of the Cyclops to hide the fact that he doesn't actually have legs. this was really fun actually even though I thought it was going to be challenging because the texture of the cliffs.
​ next thing I did was add some rough detailing as far as the man's upper body muscles and head shape. after that pretty much everything was paying attention to detail, things like smoothing out the muscles and building on them smoothing out the cliff rocks and adding Pebble details to them, as well as facial detailing.
I added a leaf over the genital area since I didn't want to sculpt that and I feel that my collaboration partner did not want that scope either. I took inspiration from biblical painters.
Under glazing process made me nervous since it was a project I had been working on for a hot minute. Especially the skin color part was hard for me because I had to mix the glazes in order to make an appropriate skin color and I'm still not sure what it will look like after firing.
Sea collection
This project was inspired by my scuba certification course, I started making this because I was getting scoop certified currently and I remembered that I like the underwater world and what it has to offer so I decided I wanted some in my own home as well.
This shark is kind of an imaginary shark, I did it without a reference picture and I'm guessing that the anatomy is not correct. I drew some inspiration from the whale shark project I did during my Ceramics One class. I rolled out a piece of clay and built on to it more and more until it became a shark-like form and I scored and slipped on all the fins and used a needle and signing tool for the gills and eyes.
