Eran las once y medio en un noche muy frio. Vi a una niño gordo viaja.
Era muy pequiño. Tenía sobre ocho años. Llevaba ropas de todos negros.
El niño gordo entró en el banco. Sacó un negro revólver. Se llevo el
dinero. El revólver era un juguete de el color de negro. El niño gordo
salío del banco. El se quitó su ropas.
¡Fue Pinky y el Brain vestieron a el niño! Subieron el triciclo de Playskool. Y el triciclo se fue de prisa.
During the first marking period in another class we built masks out of a pitiful sort of sculpy clay. I chose to take it a step further and used some of my own red clay to make a mask. I had never worked with clay in any other way that ceramics so molding it into a face was interesting. I decided I wanted to make more animated and human-like forms. Over three weeks I ended up with four new masks dried in brittle red clay. After that I left them with my uncle to be bisqued. That's where they are presently. When they're done I will paint them with acrylics. Each mask is completely different. The first is shaped like a porcelain baby doll. It has small lips that will be painted red, huge round cheeks that will be painted white and a smooth forehead. This mask was created to juxtapose my favourite mask - the old man. It has a sort of calm, simplicity to it's child like face where as the old man has a sad, heavy demeanor plastered across his face. There are two others, also meant to sort of pair. One is a fresh faced, eager, rebellious warrior and the other a passive, tired veteran. With these two the colour is important. Though it hasn't been added yet they will be very thick and smooth. The colours of the young man will will sharp reds and blues and yellows. The veteran will have grays and greens, a symbol of ld military work and such. This process opened up a new world of clay to me. I had often been involved in pottery when I was younger but this was something I hadn't thought of. The idea of scultpure, for me, is t display an image or idea that doesn't fit in two dimensions. That requires a depth and texture. And that is exactly what I was trying to do with my masks.
(pictures to be posted as soon as the masks are done in the kiln)
For the past semester, I have been
lobbying for the senate to repeal the blatantly homophobic policy that
prohibited gays from serving in the military, called Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. I
have attempted to help this cause by writing letters to senators who were
seemingly “on the fence” about this issue, and publishing regular blog posts
revealing the truth behind Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
I have witnessed a complete turnaround in regards to the
support it received in the senate. Originally, it was placed inside a larger
defense bill; however, rejected the bill, deeming it too complex to be able to
sufficiently debate the topic before the Christmas break. When the bill was
apparently dead, Susan Collins presented the bill in a piece of stand alone
legislation as a last attempt to get it through the senate, and on December 18,
In a 65-31 vote, the Senate passed the repeal that would allow thousands of
Americans to serve in the military being openly homosexual. This was a historic
achievement by president Obama. This victory was symbolic of several victories
Obama added to his repertoire throughout a very productive lame duck session.
Although failing to pass the Dream Act, he was able to sign a nuclear arms
treaty with Russia, and cut taxes for millions of Americans.
This was a pressing civil rights
issue that had taunted the gay community for 17 years. I personally agree with
President Obama who strongly advocated for soldiers to serve in the military
being openly gay. "I don't know what it's like
to be picked on for being gay. But I do know what it’s like to grow up feeling
that sometimes you don’t belong. It’s tough.”This was a historic moment in Obama’s presidency.He was able to come through on a
campaign promise that reigned in thousands of voters, and he was able to repeal
a law that had hindered our nation’s security and the freedom of thousands of
Americans.
This is the final assignment for our Lobbying topics, as you may have seen below my Lobbying topic was to lower the drinking age to 18. My partner Evan and I have been trying to get in touch with the National Youth Rights Association and have been getting people aware of the situation. Our main concern has been the fact that you can fight for your freedom in this country at 18 but you cannot celebrate with a drink when you get home. I have been trying to get in touch with the National Youth Rights Association over the past few weeks, and have heard nothing back yet. I have asked them about creating a chapter here in Philadelphia, or just contributing to a different chapter somewhere close by. Evan and I have created a Facebook Page about this topic where we will post news as we find it.
In the second quarter we had a choice of what we wanted to do. At first I had a set plan of drawing something dealing with the seasons. That completely changed! I ended up drawing sketches of cartoon couples. This also changed! My next project was dealing with ducks. I only chose ducks because I had an obsession and wanted one for Christmas. Then once again it changed. My final project was two swans under neath the sunset in the water forming a heart in their necks. I colored this project in with charcoal.
I don't have too much to say in this post, because the second meeting has been postponed. However, I do intend to continue working with the CORA group throughout the year, or as long as I can be helpful. Ms. Mary has also told me that she could connect me with the Director of the Office of Addiction Services for the city, which is a huge opportunity. I have started up the survey I had planned to, and got 15 responses which is really great. I'm hoping that this information could be useful to the group. I don't know when the next meeting will be, but I'm excited to see what's in store for me here!
I started this patch quilt during
the first marking period. I have crotched the entire thing over the passed few
months. I would have never been able to produce such work if it wasn’t for my
great-great aunt Stella. This special woman taught me how to crochet when I was
seven and I haven’t been able to put the habit down since. My piece that I am
in the process of working on now is a giant patch quilt with many colors. I am
crocheting rows of patches and then going to crochet them all together to form
a quilt. This piece is going well because I am following my own pattern and
crocheting my own way. When I say my own way I mean my style of crocheting with
adjusting the tightness of the stitch and flow of the yarn. This piece isn’t
quite finished yet because it takes a long time to construct such a large quilt
and will need more time to finish.
These
pictures were taken in this way to symbolize my great-great aunt Stella and
what she had taught me. In the background you see another quilt in which she
made forty years ago. I put my work over top of her quilt to show how great her
skills were and how it inspired me to make a quilt of my own. My great-great
aunt was very skilled with crocheting and she passed this skill down to me with
her teachings and patience.
Crocheting
to me is very soothing, and relaxing. My favorite thing about my work is that I
can just sit down with my piece in my hands and watch television or have a
conversation with someone. I can be creating a piece of artwork while relaxing
and having time to myself. I see this as a major stress reliever in my
life.My favorite tool to my
artwork is my needle. With my needle I can create just about anything I put my
mind too. My needle is my gateway to my finished product.
Finishing
my product is the best part for me. My quilt isn’t finished yet but I can feel
that point coming soon. The process of completion is satisfying, but not as
satisfying as seeing my finished product lay out, nice and pretty. Then I can
reflect on this work and think about how much hard work I had put into this
piece. I look now at my rows and rows of finished patches and I think about all
of the hours I had put into making these squares with neat and tight stitching.
That brings me to think about my hands. My hands really wove all of this yarn
into something big and useful without giving it much thought. My hands are my
main tools and with them I created this giant patch quilt.
My
favorite color in this quilt is the dark green. It is very appealing to my eye
and engages the sense. The color has good qualities such as blending in with all
of the other colors I used. It engages my senses and gives me a sense of warmth
because it is a gentle color and it is on a quilt, which is warm. If I were to
crotchet this entire quilt all over again, I would have made sure all of the
yarn was of the same thickness or gauge. Some of the patches are thinner than
others, which are fine, but in order to maybe look better, the same constancy
of yarn should be used. I would have kept the tightness of the stitches the
same because they are very well held together and will probably never rip
apart. That is what makes a quality quilt!
Eran once por la mañana y estaba nevando. Vi
un chico tenía siete años. Él era muy adorable, bajo y gordo. Llevaba manoplas
no hiciste juego con el uno al otro y zapatillos viejos. El chico entró la
tienda. Sacó una mochila y se llevó un manzana y dos polos. Como Él era saliendo
la tienda los polos empezaron derretirse. El chico salio corriendo de la
tienda. Se quito los zapatillos y manoplas. Fue un mapache. Subió a la
motocicleta se fue de prisa.
For this marking period I wanted to draw a picture of the Shinobi Traceurs. They are a mixed martial arts and parkour group. I wanted to draw them while they are actually doing some martial arts and parker. So I found some pictures of them in actions. I then drew a forrest background and drew them beside their animals. I decided to draw them with a forrest background because of their animals even tho some of their animals are not forrest creatures. This project was hard to do because I wasn't simply drawing people standing around I was drawing people I know and see everyday so I wanted to have them actually look like the people I was trying to depict. I decided to use both crayons and rakers so that certain parts of the picture would stand out more then others. For example, the words Shinobi Traceurs stand out against the trees because they are colored in red and in marker so they look bolder then the trees surrounding them. I also colored the people in marker so they would stand out against the trees and the grass.
The people in the picture are the Founder Andre Wiley (the lion), Co-Founder Will Thomas (the wolf), and their student Rashaun Williams (the ram), they are the leaders of the Shinobi Traceurs, and in second rank of the Shinobi Traceurs is Tyreé Wright (the dragon). Shinobi by definition is a covert agent specializing in the art of stealth and combat. Traceurs by definition is a practitioner of Parkour, the art of displacement, overcoming physical obstacles in one's environment. Combine the two, and you have the essence of the Shinobi Traceurs.
I decided to draw them because I think what they do is really cool and I wanted to draw a picture of them to show off that coolness using my artistic talents.
For this second quarter digital video project, we were given the assignment of creating a 30second-2minute commercial advertising a product or idea of our choice.The product my partner and I decided to advertise was a glove.With visual and motion graphics we were able to create effects with the glove to emulate a variety of tasks the glove could perform.
The title of my piece is "What I Can See" it is an abstract painting that shows everything that one see's when they first look at someone. It shows the physical qualities of person that would attract another. Everyone has at least one physical quality that they want would like their partner to have.
For my piece I asked others to help me out by answering two questions. Such as When you first see someone what is the first thing you notice? What do you like the most about yourself? Some of the answers I received were eyes, face, smile, hair, complexion, body, lips and more. So I wanted to use as many of those answers as possible.
After putting some thought into it I came up with my painting. I like you or want you for what i can see.
For this marking period i decided to paint something that i loved, Japanese Characters. Specifically from anime (Japanese Cartoons). The anime i choose was Naruto. It's interesting to me how a single miss placed brushstroke or one too many could make the character mean something entirely different. The characters in the blue box stand for nin-dog (Ninja-dog) and Jashin (A type of religion). The ones in the green box stand for 四- forth or four
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目- japanese counter
火- fire
影-shadow but when said together it reads 四代目火影 - Yon Dai Me Hoo Kage or Yondaime Hokage. The characters in white stand for shi, which means death. The one with a black frame and red background stand for shoku meaning food. In yellow near the bottom, that symbol means flower. Lastly the one in the bottom left hand corner is an eye. That eye is the mangekyou sharingan belonging to a character in the Naruto anime. I also did a second painting of a moon and stars. There are no sketches becuase it was something i just felt the need to draw. Name of moon painting: Starry Night Name of Japanese Character painting: 忍者の生活 or Ninja no seikatsu meaning The Ninja Life
“"He who controls the present,
controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future” ~ George
Orwell
For
the final step of my blog post I decided to trace my steps for this project to
revisit and redesign my first blog post.I realized that the reason the congressman I was
trying to reach wouldn’t respond was most likely because I didn’t present my
information in a fashion that was both interesting and compelling, so I have
decided to “start again” and reconfigure this so I can make progress in a
different way.
My
idea is to convince the Politian’s to keep the minimal drinking age 21 and not
raise it as they had previously planned to.Although it may seem like a mute cause, its something I feel
is worth fighting for, and will once again establish my opinion on the matter.
Previously,
I had tried to get in touch with congress through emails.It was less than successful.I have decided that this time around I will
take a more direct approach by gaining the attention of my peers in a similar
age group and getting them to commit to the cause themselves.Alone, one can accomplish something but
together we can accomplish many more things.
Second quarter started and I had no idea what to do for my project. Until I figured that I might as well screen print t-shirts if I enjoy them so much. One of the most difficult parts was to actually pick what I wanted to print on these shirts. My first instinct was to think of inspirational quotes because who wouldn't like wake up every morning to put on a shirt that had an awesome saying on it like, "happiness depends on ourselves" or "years teach us more than books". I just thought was too 'corny' or bland and boring. So I started thinking and remembered that I have always been fascinated with silhouettes. So here are my sketches:
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Unfortunately, I didn't plan accordingly and didn't expect to need so much time. At first I transferred those sketches onto freezer paper and cut them out but it was very time consuming. I was aware that I could cut them out on contact paper (shelving paper) but unfortunately, I couldn't get my hands on it for a while. I will most definitely never under estimate a project like that again. But the MOST MOST difficult part of the process was cutting the images out of the freezer paper. I forgot how its very challenging to get the contrast right. I had to compromise some of my cutting because I didn't want to have just random pieces cut out. I was able to finish one shirt. I will try to finish the rest of the shirt during third quarter right along with the third quarter project.
I worked on different types of poster making and typography. I got the inspiration from a talented artist on Flickr that I follow. This person creates many interesting pieces with typeface and photos that made me want to create my own.
I used things I heard around me as well as some of my favorite expressions as inspiration. It was difficult to find photos to mesh together to make what I saw in my head. When I decided on the expressions to use, I had to sit down and think about what they really meant. From there, I envisioned a scene or collection oh photos to fit into the words. All the photos I used were from Wikicommons.
The process consisted of deciding on the phrases, finding the photos and arranging the pieces. It was quite to easy to pick the phrases. After that, I had to search the internet to find pictures that suited the scene I had pictured in my head. Through this process, I had to familiarize myself with public domain as well as several Creative Commons Licenses. One I had the photos the real fun started. I twisted, turned, cropped and flipped each picture many ways. I tried out all different fonts, sizes and colors. The fonts, I chose fitting typefaces and in most pieces used color-matching for the photos and fonts.
Ember Ember, was the first oil portrait I ever painted. Prior to this painting, I had virtually no experience or education regarding oil paints. Through trial and error, I somewhat taught myself how to paint with oil, only asking for help once, when I was completely lost trying to clean my brushes (thank you Ms. Hull!). Though I made many mistakes, I did enjoy experimenting with a new medium. Working with oils was a truly rewarding experience. I found that after a while, I really enjoyed painting with them. I came to love the feeling of pushing the paint across the canvas. I don't know if it was just the weight of the paint, or the brush, but it just felt so satisfying to perform each brushstroke. Whenever I painted, all my stress seemed to melt away. Of course, this state of lucidity could have also resulted from the amount of paint thinner that I exposed myself to, cleaning my brushes and all, but I like to believe otherwise...
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Remove the Mask The second painting I created was titled Remove the Mask. When brainstorming ideas for this piece, I thought of people trying to be everything that they aren't. Not wanting to come off as focusing solely on the negative, I decided to depict this by painting a woman removing a mask from her face. While working on this portrait, I changed my mind constantly. I made her hair various colors until I mixed the right amount of sienna and yellow to get the copper-ish tone that I settled with. Shaping the face was another aspect of the painting that I was quite indecisive about. I was constantly reshaping the nose, brows, eyes, and chin until I got just the right form that I felt good with. Though I was met with many small decision points with this painting, they were certainly important to the overall feel of the painting. I am glad that I questioned every part of my process, because if I didn't, I wouldn't feel as satisfied with this painting as I am now. If you aren't content with your work, how can you expect anyone else to be, right?
For the second quarter, I started off well, but then started to lack
direction. In the beginning of the quarter I steadily worked on my
"doodles." They're just an arrangement of swirls that always seem to
come from my hand when I'm not paying attention. I decided that it
would be a good idea to actually focus on drawing them and make
something of them rather than leave them as scratches on the bottoms of
homework assignments. I simply used a marker and let my hand go. I
really like the way they turned out. To me, they give off a sort of
"whimsical" feel. I really enjoy feeling that when I look at my work.
Every
year, since I was (believe it or not) one year old, I have been making
handmade Christmas gifts for my family. When I was younger, my mom
would put together some Christmas-themed craft for me to produce for
the masses, but as I've grown older, I've begun to create the projects
by myself. This year, I made beaded Christmas tree ornaments. I had two
different designs: candles, and a snowman. these were very
time-constraining to make, but I enjoyed the meticulous and methodical
nature of stringing the beads along repetitively. It was very relaxing
and a nice way to prepare for the holidays.
After
completing that, I didn't know what to do, but I had some artistic work
that had to be done for two of my other classes, so I decided to put
all that I could into that. I have always wanted to learn how to use
Photoshop. I've developed a basic knowledge over time, but I hope to be
able to expand that. This quarter, I worked on removing backgrounds and
merging pictures. I've learned a few different ways to do these things,
some easy, some more difficult, but all useful in their own way. I am
very proud of the progress that I've made with Photoshop and am
striving to expand my knowledge even more.
For
a few days now, my eyes have strayed to an empty Toblerone box by the
windowsill in the classroom. I have always been intrigued by the
triangular prism design of the box. I had been contemplating what to do
with the box. I wanted to use it for some type of artistic purpose, but
I didn't know what. Today, on the last day before the art for this
quarter was due, I resolved to use the triangular side of the box as a
paint stamp. So, I took a large sheet of paper, painted it yellow, and
used the box to stamp blue triangles onto my paper in no particular
pattern. I'm not at all fond of the piece, and I actually disposed of
the painting on my way out of the classroom, but it was still an
enjoyable project to work on, especially because I got to use such an
unusual medium.
For
my quarter 2 benchmark i took a picture of the Love Park sign. Love Park
is a place in Philadelphia were you can come and hangout with friends. Love
Park is as known for being a home for the homeless it is unfortunately true
because there are a lot of homeless people who live there. One
of the reasons why this picture means a lot to me is because it is in
Philadelphia and I am from Philadelphia so I feel as though because I am a Philadelphian
it is necessary for me to know what it is and where it is. Another
reason why this picture means a lot to me is because Love Park is known for being
a great a place to skateboard. And as a skateboarder I have been there a lot so
I can skateboard. Unfortunately it is now illegal to skateboard there now so
the Love Park sign also represents a "Rest In Peace" sign.
In conclusion
I feel that Love Park defines Philadelphia because Philadelphia is called the
city of Brotherly Love and the key word in that is “LOVE”.
My when I started my project I got the inspiration from just babies in general. I love children and the whole concept of life being captured intrigued me. My project for 2Q is one I'm truly proud of because I actually thought about what i was going to do and had a plan. For this project I used charcoal, my favorite, to create my art. Charcoal to me depicts the emotion in each photo. I love the way I can cover the whole page from top to bottom in color but my art still look soft and feminine. With other methods of coloring it would've made my pictures to firm and crisp and I didn't want that.
For this project I decided to make a "Life" collage. The first project in my piece was a nude mother who is clearly pregnant. She is facing away from us and covering up with a sheer shawl that is draped over her pregnant frame.
When viewers see this the first thing I want them to notice is the softness of the photo, almost as if she is caressing herself. She is nurturing her body because she has life growing within her.
The next part I drew was the heart and this really has to be my favorite part. One because the colors just pop out at you. And again the charcoal gives it that soft look. Which in this photo is weird because the black background gives it a very crisp edge to it that i also like.
The other two parts were kind of together, they are fetuses. One is bigger than the other one and i drew this because it depicts whats going on in the inside. On the bigger fetus you can actually see the slight smile on it. yes that was on purpose.
I decided to put these photos in a collage which is not fully come yet. By the end of this is finished I should have other components to fit around my pregnant lady.
Originally I was suppose to work with recycled items to develop a work of art, instead I tried my hand at a skill that I've been working on for awhile, which is drawing. I've been frequently taking art classes on Saturday so I recreated some pieces and tried to improve some. Mainly my focus for my this art project was to build on skill that I've been developing. I worked with charcoal, pencil, pastels and toned paper to experiment with the different types of textures and shades to work with when drawing figures or still life.
Some of my drawings are recognizable as some of disney's famous characters. These are just some sketches in my book that I've been working on to give my hand practice at drawing different characters. I know the creativeness isn't necessarily there mimicking a picture, but I find it great practice when it comes to drawing cartoons. It helps to see the simple shapes in the characters so drawing comes more fluently when trying to draw what you see.
In my art classes we had nude models so there are two unfinished figure drawings where I worked with charcoal and shading in the dark spaces. When figure drawing it came natural because my hand has become accustomed to drawing the shape within a figure itself, in trying to give the drawing dimension I had to focus on lighting and the gray scale to make the figure pop.
I worked with pastels for the first time drawing a pitcher, a wine bottle and some squashes I didn't get very far in my design, but I've very pleased with what I have so far. This was very different from using charcoal because black wasn't the only highlight color to make the objects pop out, we had blues for yellows and oranges to figures stand out.
My 2nd quarter project was a simple back to the basics of drawing, with few sketches, and side experiments. The practice will do me well in the future for our third quarter assignments.
For my second quarter art project I decided to move back into the realm of illustration with my artwork. At first I wasn't really sure about what I wanted to draw. I spent the majority of my free time over winter break watching horror films with my cousin, and then the idea hit me, "I should draw a monster from one of these movies." It wasn't very difficult picking the creature I wanted to draw. Well, my one friend used to have an internet girlfriend from Ireland, and my cousin and I, being the A-holes that we are, used to make fun of her and call her The Creature From The Black Lagoon. She became my inspiration, and I added feminine features to my illustration to display this. My cousin also assisted me with the shading. The types of media used were pencil and a Pilot G-2 Rolling Ball Gel Pen. I couldn't finish the piece all the way because it was quite labor intensive and took a while to do, as I take my time to draw.
During my years in high school I always saw artistic people drawing these shapes and patterns on a piece of paper, and to me, it looked so abstract and creative. I've always wanted to somehow mimic those designs yet, I never believed that I was artistic enough to do it until this project came along and I decided to do it. I remember seeing this picture that was half the face of a tiger, and the other half had crystals coming out of it. So i drew half a tiger's face and the other side, decided to draw the creative designs.
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I'm not done yet but over the next quarter, I plan on outlining the tiger and coloring the other half with color pencil...and finishing the design. As weird as this might sound, I found the project really challenging because I don't consider myself an artistic person so when it came to doing different designs, I found it really hard to do. I was worried that instead of looking abstract it would look clustered and just wrong. So before I even started it on the actual tiger, I drew an outline of a circle with a paint can and did different shapes in the circles.
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After doing these I had the courage to start on the real thing, not because I was ready, but because I figured that you can't really plan out what to draw for things like this. So yeah, it was fun overall and I wouldn't mind doing it again. It's just frustrating trying to figure out how to fill up blank spaces. =]
Artist Statement Why you did what you did? What does it mean to you? What did you use to make it.
Hi my name is Samuel Kabangai, i attend school at Science Leadership Academy, i am the artist that created this design. For our second quarter project, we the students had a choice to pick our own art that we wanted to work on and a project that meant something to us.
I wanted the project that I choose to mean something and represent a part of me that I am proud of. I was born and raised in Sierra Leone west Africa and my African heritage is something that I am very proud of. Another thing that influenced my art was my name. I have a unique last name and all my friends and people i know have different ways to say my name. One of my friends Devonte Martin told me that my name can be a trade mark. The art that I decide to make is custom made shirts that had hand made drawings and different designs of the map of Africa and my name. I am a person that loves fashion and so I decided to put these designs on t-shirts that I can wear and so could other people.
The tools that I used to make my shirts were things that can be used or acceded by anyone and they are affordable by anyone. During the process of the project I got a lot of help from my art teacher Ms. Hall. After I drew the designs of the shirts on paper, I used a box cutter to cut out the outline of what I had drew so it can look like the way I wanted it on the shirts. After I drew the design on paper, I traced it on shelfing paper and cut out the the design that I wanted to show on the shirt. After this process, I used a paint brush, dipped it in fabric paint and slightly tapped the paint on the out line of my design, while it was on the shirt.
These shirts that I have made and the ones I am going to make mean a lot to me because it was an idea that I had, a design that I made and it had a theme that I was proud of and I followed it and made the art. I am happy to see the reactions on peoples faces when they see the shirts and I am happy to see people wear the shirts. I hope this idea gets bigger and greater. More designs, art work and t-shirts and coming soon.
Origami
as a whole is an interesting and creative art. It focuses on structure building
and folding techniques that add up, giving the art piece all it’s magnificent
details and realistic qualities. During the second quarter of the school year I
wanted to incorporate origami in a form of a sculpture, to be shown as a prop
or a decoration. Starting off with the design and blueprint of the sword, I
then went on to create the necessary materials to create my sculpture using
scrape printer paper.
To
start this project I had to find something I could get inspired to build.
Looking at multiple designs I choose to create a prop sword from one of my
favorite Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game, Runescape. In the game it
features a great sword created by one of the Runescape Gods, a powerful great
two-handed sword with the power to strike down foes with lighting under the
name of Saradomin. It was something I’d really enjoyed from the game and I
thought I create it as a cosplay item for my own self-enjoyment.
Looking
at a picture of the sword I started creating the blueprints for the sword. It
was an easy process to do as I just simply scaled down the sword to a size I believe
was right. Creating a 1ft handle with a 3ft blade that totaled a
4ft design for the sword. But also using a protractor to get the angles of the
sword so that it precisely reflects the sword, it’s details, cuts, and distinct
sharpness. Then it was on to the process of planning every single detail that I
was going to do and how I was going to do it.
In
order to make the prop I first had to create the material needed to create the
structure and fame of the sword. Some call this glued paper layers of a single
printer paper but I know it as harden paper because it is much harder then card
stock. To make this material, the materials needed are glue, printer paper, and
a waiting time of about twenty-four hours to dry. First step was to fold the
paper precisely in half or the piece would be crooked, then applying a layer of
glue, and finally repeating that process on the same paper, making sure that it is
flat and there are no air bubbles. Last step was drying it under a large object such
as a book for twenty-four hours as it tends to warp during the drying process.
After
the harden paper became harden, I started building the structure of the sword.
Adding on layers of harden paper to a point in which it could hold its own
weight and in the form of a T shape. On the structure of the sword I drew an
outline of the sword with a pencil, protractor, and ruler until it fit the designs
of my blueprint. Using two small long sticks as support on both sides of the
sword it became clear how sturdy and balanced the sword will become and it was
time for the final part. Covering the wooden support in a matter where it shows
the thickness and detailed parts of the sword. Afterward getting assistance
from a fellow classmate, Natalie Sanchez to paint the sword mainly due to the
reason that I’m not a descent painter. Combing multiple shades of yellow and
silver that truly brings out the brightness and power of the god sword.
Through
this experience, I’ve learned a lot about my abilities and creating art. This
was a memorable experience as I combined two different kind of art together
into one form. Such as I made it a home project to work on none stop, where one
time I was up still working until 3 a.m. and during Thanksgiving. Which I’ve
truly enjoyed this process and this opened a new window for my next home art
project that I’ve already started.
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