This week’s report has only one model to show since last week, everyone was on thanksgiving vacation and I didnt get to work on it in the weekend. Well, at least I got something to show, and you probably has never seen anyone done this with clay before…. this week what I created, was a textbook. To be precise, it is a Japanese textbook since I am in Japanese class and life is much harder there compared to all the other subjects, I guess the reason is that last year we have some English support in translating those Japanese adjectives,verbs, and nouns.etc. This year, all of them, I mean the entire paper and book, is written in Japanese and that is just like trying to learn English for me in the beginning (thats a distant memory since I’ve been learning it for over 10 years). Oh, we’re getting off topic, back to the clay model.
So this is the design I made, a Japanese textbook, I don’t think it is accurate in the “scales” part, but overall, I think it kinda fits as the replica of the textbook 🙂
and this is the original:
So I suppose it is the same, no matter how hard I tried to make the book more “rectangle like” it just doesn’t work and well, I substituted the sakura flowers at the bottom of the textbook with a Japanese flag, I guess they are still related, so I just improvise and just used what I got, a bunch of clay. I am sorry but this is the only model I worked on for the past 2 week, if last week did not have thanksgiving break, I would have another one to show.
Anyway, I suppose you know how I made it, and how I pulled it off. First of all, I made a first mistake at my first step of not using a complete piece, and just separate parts and assembling them together into one complete piece, that may be the reason why it can’t be rectangular. If you look closely, those clay are actually “put together” and not “one complete piece”. Well, fortunately I didn’t make the same mistake in the front nor the middle part, it was at the back and the back is just a mess, its just a messy fusion of the yellow clay and making this textbook look old.After you constructed the yellow part of the book, what next? Well, here comes the white part, which is the pages. It worked out pretty fine. Then a mistake happened where the lines that mark the pages were not straight. I did not make my lines straight and when I traced it with my marker, it turns out the pages were “disorganised” if you can imagine what I mean. These mistake are terrible and I wish I learn from them and next week I will definitely try to AVOID them. One mistake, can mess up your work. Luckily I know how to fix them, otherwise…..