- I first met with the design foundations program on zoom and the instructors went over the project page that was posted on Carmen.
- After going over the project, I watched the video assigned by the instructors and created a 2D drawing of a letter that looks 3D from an angle.
- I then started to think about which composition from my A2 I wanted to turn into a form.
- At the same time, I completed the tiny house exercise, by making the house in isometric and the orthographic views in vectornator, using the template provided in Carmen.
- In class, I also made a template for the perfect cube exercise and after cutting it out I formed a cube.
- After thinking about which composition to use for a while I posted the top three picks I had to a discussion board on Carmen.
- I thought about which one would be the most interesting to recreate in 3D form and finally chose the one I named Spin.
- I picked this particular piece to work with because I thought it would lead to some interesting finds and I also thought it looked good in 2D so I wanted to see it in 3D form.
- I then started to make some iterations of what it might look like in 3D form.
- At first, I started by making an iteration using 2 point perspective that just extruded up with some slants and hidden shapes but got stuck trying to figure out other iterations.
- I talked to my instructor and I got some ideas about doing iterations that included negative spaces and downward extrusions.
- I was able to come up with two more iterations that I thought were good.
- After having all three iterations the hardest part was deciding which one to use as my 3D model.
- I talked to my instructor and decided that the first iteration I did with the upward extrusion would give the best effect of the original elements and principles.
- Even though the others looked cool the first piece had the best feeling of movement and scale which I wanted to portray in my work.
- After deciding which one I wanted to do, I started to draft some templates and started to make them into 3D forms using printer paper.
- After doing my practice forms on the printer paper I went on bristol and made new templates for the final piece that were actually to scale and more precise.
- I then made an 8 by 8 square on paper and started to place the forms on top of each other like they were placed in the 2D composition.
- Once I was satisfied with their placement I applied glue to each one and glued them together.
- After finishing with that, I started to work on my other deliverables.
- At first, I had problems with Apple’s Pages app so, I opened a Google Doc where I used an 11 by 17 page and started to write down instructions and included pictures of the templates with labels to make it easier to understand.
- After giving instructions on how to put the whole thing together I went down to a new page and posted pictures of my orthographic views and my template.
- I then made a whole new Google Doc of the same size and placed all the pictures that I took of my 3D form.
- Finally, I converted my Google Docs into PDFs and submitted them into carmen.