My first ICTX project will be designing and creating a double ended trident for a cosplay prop. It will involve 3-d printed and vinyl cut pieces to create the finished piece.
Pierogies and Bacon
Three pictures displaying 45⁰, 90⁰ and ‘Hero’ angles respectively.
Poem
You’re like a tipsy barmaid on stilts,
A baby deer on moss,
A motorcycle on ice,
Like a flying saucer
A tea saucer,
A pop can with a bullet hole,
But I’ll clean up after you anyway.
After Inquiry
My inquiry is now complete, and I am very happy with how I improved. I did two drawings that didn’t take that long last night and I was shocked at how proud I was of them. Flipping to the front of my sketchbook I have improved incredibly.
Update
I haven’t been able to access my blog for a while so here is a summary of what I have done. I started working on electronic drawing on my laptop. I have doodled before, but never done anything more serious, so after researching programs I fiddled around with them. Because of this, different lyrics have different art styles from different programs or are on paper, but all together it looks pretty neat.
Inquiry
What is your inquiry question or project?
My inquiry project is drawing a set for the song Everything at Once by LENKA. It’s a bizarre and fun song that I can get lost in easily and that has a format perfect for drawing people in different poses and expressions are the main things I want to focus on.
What challenges have you faced in it? How have you overcome them?
Time and my perfectionism are my two large issues. I always want to work on it but always prioritize something else, and I nitpick everything to the point where nothing gets done. Essentially, my progress is being held back because of my own stubbornness. These are issues I have been working on not just for this project, so the pace has picked up a fair bit from the start as my confidence in the project grows and my other work shrinks.
What are your next steps?
At this point I mainly need to focus on just sitting down and drawing. I have enough references and a basic plan, so all that’s left is continuing the execution. Over spring break when I am not focused on other school work I think I will be able to accomplish a lot and end up with a nice finished piece.
Inquiry
For my inquiry I am working on drawing a set for this song. I might post pictures but right now I think I can still improve them so I am going to leave them for now. The goal is to work on posing, expressions and hands because hands are impossible to draw.
A New Harper Lee Novel?
It was announced yesterday that Harper Lee, at eighty-eight years old, was to release another novel July of this year. ‘Go Set a Watchman’, actually written before To Kill a Mockingbird, follows Scout as an adult and features other characters, such as Atticus.
Here’s an article about it from The Guardian
You can pre-order the book Here
Interesting timing, isn’t it?
The Ending
I don’t even know where to begin, honestly. So many things happen, coming together eventually. It was sad, happy, and masterfully written. First of all, it’s terrifying to think that Mr. Ewell was so low he would attack children. There’s also the fact that Scout never gets to see Boo again, even though he saved her life. Things like this are not what we are going to focus on. Let’s discuss a happier detail: Scout acting ladylike and having Boo escort her. I think this shows that a ladylike mindset is starting to stick with little Miss Jean Louise, and that maybe she’s okay with it, even if just a little. In the movie and the book I thought it was incredibly adorable, and it made me feel less sad about some of the things I mentioned before.
Project
For the large project Jenna, Tina and I are creating a modern adaption blog following three sisters witnessing the events of the book. You can find that blog here: https://mayscomb.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/a-quaint-little-town/