Finally finished my bookmark. Almost had it finished on time but the drill bit i was using broke just before I was finished, and there wasn't another one to replace it. But I was able to finish it the next day, and in the end I suppose it turned out all right. Not sure how efficient it will be as a bookmark, but considering how it is my first time doing anything with metals, its not bad. Metal is certainly not my favorite medium. Its so unforgiving compared to clay or paint or even just drawing. So many tedious steps. I suppose it is nicer in the fact that I can make wearable, usable items, unlike painting and drawing where I am most comfortable, but my god the amount of time it takes to make anything is crazy. It may just be my skill level making me slow, but it seems to take a long time in general. Just so many steps, and you really have to plan eeeeeeeevery thing out in advance, which i absolutely hate doing. I cant stand measuring and planning and all that. I quickly get unexcited about a project after I start, as I am a bit ADD and my passion runs out early (thats also an aries trait, hehe) which is why I like stuff where I can just have at it and get it done quickly. This is also why my art is usually very messy, but its a style I like personally. Things being perfectly clean and neat gives me a bit of anxiety to be honest, mostly cause all I can think about is all the painstaking time it must have took to make it that way. It seems to be expected for metal work to be clean and neat and organized, what with craftsmanship and all that.
One aspect I did enjoy in this project was the texturizing and coloring of the copper. I suppose it is the most similar to painting and stuff, but I think its the part that turned out the best anyway. I would like to do a piece with lots of opportunity for this kind of thing.
But apart from all my frustration, it is, as I stated earlier, interesting to have such a usable medium; that is, being able to make functional, lasting objects. And of course the idea of making jewelry sounds appealing. Certainly would be nice to make something I like wearing. But based on my skill level at the moment, I doubt I am going to make anything really nice to wear any time soon. Not anything I can come up with anyway... all my ideas for the next project come out very organic, which seems to be a bit more difficult with such an inorganic medium. Geometric shapes certainly aren't my typical way of thinking. Going to have to really stretch my brain for this next project.
I really have no idea what to do for my next project. I come up with lots of ideas, though hardly any of them fit the theme of micro and macro. Unless of course I did another celestial themed work.
sketches and such:
no idea if this would even work. or how to begin to make it. The symbols are from my favorite videogame Half Life. with the Black Mesa symbol around the wrist, and the Lambda symbol for the ring. they are both giant corporations. macro? that would be a chain connecting them btw. aint nobody got time to cut out a proper chain from paper.
the jellyfish in the right corner is a fun idea, but doesn't fit the theme. sigh.
I like this flower necklace, but again it doesn't fit the theme of micro macro. I hate themed projects... :/
simpler version of the Half Life/Aperture theme at the top, but I think it would be too simple. I mean I would wear it for sure, and I would certainly spend plenty of time working on it for it to be a good bit of work, but idk.
basically have no idea what to do. Flower is my fav idea. The black Mesa/Aperture necklace is the most do-able, and fits the theme better though.
