I have a few ideas for this project but still have no idea what I want to do or what you want.  I'm thinking about a rose or lotus flower but the first image was my first design.  I don't know what vehicle I should do but any recommendations will help.  I also was thinking about doing a beehive for my girlfriend but still I have no idea what vehicle any of these would deal with.  Somebody help me! 

My project is a vehicle for inspirational thought. Composed of a collection of gears which will be surrounded by several rings, I hope the viewer of my creation is provoked to consider ideas of creative engineering. Ideas of  complexity, creativity, and mysterious awe are what I intend my project to be a vehicle for. I was inspired by imagery in the expressive genre known as steampunk. I will be casting in several cans due to the more numerous parts used in my project.

Hi!

This is just a couple sketches that I did in my sketchbook a few days ago before I started carving it out of the foam. It is a sketch of one of my favorite cats in the animal kingdom; the cougar because it was represented as my mascot when I was in Elementary, Middle, and throughout High school. The second sketch is the side view of the cougar I tried to draw and I know it looks weird but I tried my best to draw it from the side. I also even forget to take a picture of the progress of my cougar project I was working on last class. I was making its one ear smooth and round so it would look 3D but didn't get to finish the other parts to look 3D yet.

Hood Update.

I am working on a rubrics cube style of a pyramid and my Vehicle is a cat and the Ornament is hanging from its collar like a bell. i thought of this idea because of the way the Egyptian style worships cats and it was a puzzle as of why. so i made a cat bell pyramid to represent an interesting meaning to it and of course a little humor.

Update Progress

This is an update progress of where I'm at. I'm still working on my project, I had choose space as my vehicle. I decided to play around with the foam because really there more then one abstract shape that you can do with it. This can be represented as a natural element of earth, fire and air. Earth is the bottom straight line, fire is the center piece as a  U shape and air is represented as the top piece with the slope lines going down. I'm still improvising ion my project and adding more to it to see how comes out of it. And I would like some feedback from ya'll tomorrow....

The Almighty Dragon

 This is my car project and I chose yet another dragon theme because dragons are one of my favorite fantasy beasts of all time. Every time I look at a dragon, I think of its grace, beauty, and power that the dragon represents. This beast has conquered our imagination for many centuries, the dragon has always give people a captive, wondrous, and mysterious feeling of being in a world beyond our mind's reality. I believe that the dragons' legacy will live on through the stories and that they will to be in people's hearts and spirits. This how I want people to feel about this dragon project; the first picture is the Draco constellation for the holes in the dragon voice box and the second one is the dragon project itself.

Shield of Puerto Rico

I'm still undecided of that type of car to do for this project but definitely  I had choose Shield of Puerto Rico as a hood ornament because  it represent from where I'm. And because it's a complex design with plenty details on it. I try to draw shield but I'm not good at drawing that's why I post a clear image of what I try to draw. There was no vocabulary so I don't I'm not sure if we had one yet or not.

"The shield of Puerto Rico is the oldest of all America, and is the only thing that reminds us of the presence of Spain in the New World. This symbolizes our birth as a people, because the other colonies made new emblems to achieve its independence."




























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http://foro.univision.com/t5/Puerto-Rico/El-Escudo-Oficial-de-Puerto-Rico-que-simboliza/td-p/309520314 

 This one is potentially offensive. At first I was designing very sleek, conventional hood ornaments. Then I thought it would be interesting if the object was less than sleek, and the car it belonged to wasn't a pretty European model... but a beat up station wagon. I had some fun playing with different poses for the ornament. On Thursday I played around with the foam to see if I could pull off the shape. I see some minor difficulties that I think I can overcome with practice.

I don't seem to have a vocabulary sheet for this project. I'm not sure if you gave one and I just missed it.

Return of the Dragon

I choose my body as the vehicle and I decided to do my dragon theme once again. I wanted to use my car ornament round my neck and the dragon will my voice box. It's in a ring like-shape, smallish, and its the charm which will be in the center of the necklace. I am the Dragon, I am Death, and hear me roar! :D LOL  

Hi Katie, 

For my project, I wanted to create a cougar out of the block of foam we got in class; it has to be 4 inches by 4 inches by 4 inches on all the sides. The foam has to easily be smoothed out and sanded in order to make it a perfect piece of artwork to show in the future. I like these pictures(shown below) of a cougar roaring while its sitting in order to catch its prey or I like the picture of it just sitting down. It doesn't matter which picture I chose though they both look good. For the aluminum project, I will choose the one with its mouth open and roaring while sitting because this kind of hood ornament would look good in front of the bike where the handles are.

*A cougar is one of the kinds of cats I love; plus, it was my mascot back in elementary, middle, and high school. Cougars are magnificent cats to enjoy loving, especially when they are cubs because they are so cute to look at.