Getting a head in the art world

The first assignment in my sculpture class was to create a realistic life-size bust of yourself. Since I'm normally a happy person, I wanted to make myself smiling with my mouth open.

It didn't work so well.

So I closed my mouth and went with another approach.

I'm much happier with this one, even though it still doesn't look exactly like me. I edited it a little after this, so the final product will look different. Pictures coming soon!

What is Sculpture?

So my first assignment is to define the word "sculpture." Now I am an abstract person, but I get very concrete when it comes to art topics. I believe that sculpture is the art of molding, shaping, or carving material(s). The root of the word is Latin for "to carve". Which is probably because a lot of Roman sculptures were carvings.

Naked people carvings.

(found on a blog site here.)

So as you may have guessed, I am a fan of actual design or realism in sculpture. Granted, the sculptures I've made (save a few) have been cartoons or fantasy, but I still took the time to plan out my work and design it.

Sculpture in the real sense has logical thought. After all, you can't make a 40-ft wide sculpture stand up on one 4-in wide stand. At least, not without some thought about the physics behind it.

As for materials, pleh, take what you can get. I personally have a bias against using metal, though, simply because only metal sculptures can withstand the elements, and those types of things are EVERYWHERE (regardless of actual quality). I even count origami as sculpture.

So sculpture, from a classical standpoint, is carving, molding, or shaping materials. Regardless of the materials. Regardless of the subject matter (although that's not always a good thing).

(Found here.)

4D Studio - Final Project

So I made speedpainting of a triptych for my final project.

Here are the videos:

Part 1: Chariots

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1730848145689

(I had to upload these to Facebook because they were too big.)

Part 2: Battle

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1730852265792

Part 3: Broken

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1730860025986

I had a lot of fun with them. I missed painting on the computer, and this was a nice exercise with it.

Here are the pictures (without the videos):

3D Studio - Final Project

For my final project, I made 15 dinosaur toys.

I grew up with dinosaurs and I was nice to put my knowledge of them to use. I made these little guys out of Crayola Model Magic. They probably took maybe a half hour at most to complete, so these would be an easy and fairly cheap source of income. -nods vigorously- I made the little "promotion" picture with Adobe Illustrator (which is rather fun to use) as well as the tags. Sadly, the models aren't as sturdy as I hoped, so I may not be able to use them as actual toys.

But oh well. I had a lot of fun. :D

3D Studio - Woodcarving

For my carving project, I made an itty bitty big horned sheep.

I put my ipod there for size comparison. He took at least 8 hours to finish. I'm overall happy with him (my first carving!) but I definitely learned what I'm changing for later carvings.

I think his butt is cute.

I started a bunny one, but I won't be able to finish it in time. Maybe I can keep going and do the entire Chinese zodiac in itty bitty woodcarvings.

4D Studio - The Internet is Really Really Great

...for artists!

For my Internet assignment, I made my own website.

http://racecarartstudio.wordpress.com/

It's just an online portfolio for now. I want to add a page of links and a store later.

3D Studio - Count Duckula

Thus, I present to thee a scene from the book Dracula, played by wax ducks on cardboard background.

Yeah, I'm weird.

This was for the moldmaking assignment. I took the ducks I already had, made molds, and poured wax into them to make these ducks. I put the set together with a hot glue gun.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with how it looks, and everyone in class seemed to like it too.