A Transformer-Robot-Dinosaur who makes art.
I make things. This is a process blog/art journal of things I make, things that inspire me, and things that I like.
My ongoing letter project:
someonetowriteto.tumblr.com
My bow tie production line:
callmecornelius.tumblr.com
DFTBA
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a day
So yesterday was my birthday- I am now what you’d consider “elderly,” as I am 23.
Yesterday was brilliant.
It was also the first year that I... -
Which Buddy is best! Someone sent in their doodle day submission early. Love it!
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today is a good day for being depressed, a+ weather
sat in park beside school and broodily smoked cigarettes while waiting to see if I’d get a...
OH YEAH: so there’s this glass display case around the corner from the Fibre Studios, where class projects get installed/displayed. The Fibre Professors have a list up in the office, keeping track of whose class projects get displayed when.
So I added my own plan:
April 13-19th — Elija sleeps in there, dressed as a monster on display (as “performance art”)
The head technician then approved it.
I love my job.
Process process process!
I worked very hard these past two days and got a lot done on Ro. I am almost done: I just need to stuff the tentacles (along with wire), re work one of the eyes so I’m more happy with it, and secure the outer fur to the inner “skull.” That will definitely be last.
These are process photos from yesterday and today, and after this process update, I will post many a pictures taken with her. Huzzahs!
Next stages of Ro Dak.
I’m… I’m really liking this. The tentacles will be longer, fo’ sho’; this was a test to insert eye holes in the fun fur, and (you can’t see it) put the leather underside to the tentacles.
Tomorrow’s goal: finish her.
(kudos to my friend Jaymie for holding it while I painstakingly tried to find the right light in the studio to get the best shot of it…)
Vacuum forming!
I just did some testing today, in between theeeeessssiiiiisssssss. The three items are monsters I carved out of foam (harder than the blue I worked with on the horns; this is more the density of wood). I decided just to get a hang of vacuum forming with the different materials we’d been introduced to, seeing as I had only focused on the LDPE, which I used for my tentacle monster skull.
The plastics I used today are grey foam, LDPE, acrylic, and styrene. Hooray!
Some days you work really hard, and things don’t seem to go right (or even if they do), and you just seem to be working and not getting anywhere. So you end the day feeling crummy and disappointed.
But then some days you work really hard, and some things don’t work- but then they do, and you finish something. And you end the day relieved and proud.
Feeling proud of myself for my accomplishments is still something I’m getting used to. And I gotta say: I don’t mind it at all.
that absolute frustration and disappointment you feel when you spend hours working on a project only to realise you have to fully scrap it.
