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.

Hey guys I'm continuing my trifoil Mandala piece that I should be done with soon.  If you haven't seen my piece yet or how its going to look you can get an idea from the first image.  This is more of an organic piece after I started the mandala.  This sculpture could relate to 3 fish in a fish bowl.  So, I figured my piece should be named out of a line from Pink Floyd's song "Wish you were here."  The title of my piece will be "we're just 3 lost souls swimming in a fish bowl."  Mainly, this piece will be for my girl friend who is a cancer and I'm a Gemini.  I'm starting to scale down the block now and stop by to say hi and look at what I'm doing.

Hi Katie,

When I first started out I wanted something more organic. But I thought it was to much work for one piece and I wouldn't really find a way for it to work as one piece. The scale of this should be decently big I hope. I will probably think for more to add on to it while I am working on it. I want it to look more easy on the eyes. I would have came up with something maybe a little bit more appealing but I did not have the time this weekend to work on it. 

Danielito----Progress

Well I stated my non-representational project as a sketch. At the beginning of the process I doubted about myself and I try to play around with my project to see how everything works about. Then, I saw the “Aesthetic” of my project and I keep working on it. Now, this is how my project looks so far and I’m still adding more shapes. Hope fully by the end of the class tomorrow 3/30/15 I should be done with my project. 

                            Before                           After

                 

My project is inspired by the imagery of what is known as a zen garden. The principle of a zen garden is to create a physical representation of the mind. The abstract concept of the "empty mind" known in Chinese as Wu Wie is the goal of a zen garden. Simplicity is the approach to design in a zen garden.
My project is coming along okay although I do not have any absolute certainty of how its final manifestation will appear. In one direction I want to develop it more simply but sometimes I have more complex ideas to apply as well. It is trying to figure out the balance of too much or too little that I am discovering.

Non-representational Object Update

When I began to work on my non-representational object, the edges of it would look the same or similar to the sketch I have in my sketchbook. The scale of it supposed to be 12 inches by 12 inches by 12 inches in order to make it look 3 dimensional on every side. It would be as formal as in the sketch I drew because it shows the way it's created on the top and on the sides. This non-representational object I'm making is going to be similar to like a monster-like shark head with its mouth open with no teeth and no eyes though I'm going to drill in the big holes in 2 to 3 spots of the object after I finish carving that one part that is not finished yet.  I don't know if I want to paint it after everything's finished; carving and drilling, but it's looking good right now and starting to look like the picture I drew for homework.

Note: I know you can't see the top of it because I took the picture with my IPad then took the picture again with the webcam on the computer so it's bright in the picture that you can't see the top but though you can see a bit of it.

Non-representational Object Update

 

 I began working on my non-representational object from the sketches that I created. The block of plaster that I started with was the exact shape that I needed. It may be slightly bigger than what I anticipated with my drawings, but not by much. I don't think it will throw off the overall scale. My design calls for many other elements aside form this core form. I've thought of the addition of some sort of skin to add texture to the smooth plaster, but I have yet to develop a clear decision of what I want this to look like.

Tribal Designs

This where I got my abstract ideas since I'm a fan on tribal tattoo designs. I'm carving out three designs. Which I was thinking some kind of skin to them, but I'm not sure yet. Maybe somehow to make them organic which I think would be cool too.

For this project I'm planning on doing hexagon shape with geometric shapes inside.  I might possibly cut out the shapes to make a 3D effect.  I might also layer shapes down the sides to make my non-representational temple looking object.  I'm excited to start this project because I've done a subtractive drawling before but never a subtractive sculpture.  

Out of the Blue

These are my three Non-representational drawings I drew out, The first two formal styles I did were pretty munch tribal, but the third piece was organic drawing. I most drew them completely out of my head, but I used reference for the third piece. I admit I was aesthetic for my third piece because I love the beauty of nature.

Form sculpture

I like the jagged and "dangerous" look of this form. it gives an Organic feel of hay or straw or grass that is what makes it non-representational that it resembles many different things not just one specific thing.

The second idea is more of a spiral/ swirly shape like a slide. i would Carve out the for roughly and mainly sand the smoothed edges. 

Hey Katie,
It took me a while to think for something for the project but I think i have something good.

I tried to to come up with an abstract design for my sculpture and I think what I have is pretty good the way different objects are spread all over the place. I think it could have a few textures that could be different. I tried to not make it too representational, and I hope you can't tell what it is from first glance.

~Drew

For my non-representational project, I'll make a weird looking shape of like an old vehicle used back in the years. The first image is Aseptic because it looks like a castle but at the same time it can be presented as just random shapes.  I only have two drawings because I’m still debating what to-do for this project.  I try to use scale with the first and second image of the non-representational project ideas. I might go for the first image because it’s a lil more complex and I would like to deal with something different and difficult to try to challenge myself to do more than what I can do now.  

For my non-representational project, I'll make a weird looking shape of like an old vehicle used back in the years. The shape is organic because it has some form and some style to its visual aspects which makes it interesting. These 3 ideas are showing some visual of a one wheel bike in combination of a similar future like mobile. It has a sense of scale within the inside and the outside of the non-representational project ideas. I would like to choose one of these ideas, not all of them; but I can't decide which one's the best.

Non-representational Sculpture

 I know the requirement was for two images, but this shows a progression of my sketches which I find interesting.

I am interested in the formal shape of swirls or spirals in nature and design. Much of my work reflects this shape. My original thought was to generate the feeling of ocean waves without being literal. As I put my tools to the paper, I began placing spirals in different scenarios and fitting them into different designs. The organic form of snail shells took an appeal, so I took that design and warped it slightly, and placed it into a habitat where it would not be a snail shell.

In the last drawing I included components of many different possible designs. There's pieces of an extension bridge, there's what looks like a crane, but it could also be a sled. I also had the idea of a teapot, which is why I hollowed the top and places the end of the spiral where it could be a spout... that was before adding the crane design. I have no idea what it is, but the aesthetic is interesting and appealing to me.