3D Concentration Progress

  I've just finished a very strange piece recently. It was a man made of sheet metal and several card board boxes. I talked to Ms. Setina this morning and we discussed several possible approaches to my new pieces.
  I was planning to make paper cuts of break dancers in a triangle shape and place a light bulb in the middle to cast shadows on the outside walls, but i was afraid it would come out too weak as a 3D piece (it would be more 2D oriented). So instead, we could carve more than one wax sculptures and place them in a line. I could still shoot light from behind to cast the shadows, but it would be essentially more interesting. Maybe i could make a wax sculpture that is partially melted.
  Also, I'd focused too much on being "realistic", i should try to convey my ideas in abstract ways, or half half. For example, if i was making a boxer in his punching position, i could make the face and body abstract while the fist really realistic to show its strength.
 

Ideas for concentration

I can probably make a figure like this out of wood.

Concentration Ideas

3D Artist Research

  Since my most recent material involved wood, i'm looking for inspiration that can transform a piece of wood into a figure in motion, my central concentration idea.

Artist for the presentation: Penny Hardy - Figures in motion

http://www.pennyhardysculpture.com/index.aspx?sectionid=741008

it is an arched torso

i like the feeling of the figure blown by the breeze, it looks smooth despite its hard material

a leaping hare

this is my favorite one. There is tension and interaction between the two dancing figures

looks like a circus performance

the torso reminded me of ancient armors that looked so fancy on a knight 

  These sculptures are exactly what i am looking for. I can feel the twist inside these aluminum wire pieces, and they are not just beautiful but emotional. i also find that a figure in motion can also be an animal (of course, why didn't i think of it before) sometimes the muscular lines on an animal can convey much stronger impression on the viewer. From this artist i learned to simplify some parts of a human body to present a focus on what i want to convey - for example, Penny Hardy cut away the limbs and head to present a pure torso, and I think that can be a possible approach and direction for me to follow.    

http://www.pinterest.com/ceeclarinal/figures-in-motion/

Concentration Study

  Alright, so about the muscles of a human figure (though i'm sure not many people are like that, i am trying to exaggerate the curves on my recent piece):
  

Concentration Research

  Now that my concentration idea is about figures in motion, i am trying to find the most interesting gestures a figure can make. Also, i want to depict the tension of the muscles as detail as i can.





















Searching figures in motion:










I've also come up with a possible idea to illustrate how sports can help one to escape from too much technological devices. When i stick the keyboard buttons on my soccer sculpture, i think maybe i can make a another one of a person with his hand reaching out from a computer screen or something.

Rethinking my idea of concentration

  My recently settled concentration idea is about music, an indispensable part of my life. I thought of combing two different instruments like making a piano shaped violin, but i found that even myself is confused - how is the shape going to look like? Also, i think it would be better to use steel to construct it, which makes the project even more difficult. The second reason that i am abandoning the idea "Music" is that, I have a feeling that music is itself interpretive enough that it is hard to convey an "artistic activity" with another form of artistic interpretation. For example, i felt that modeling a sculpture of "two hands holding tightly on a microphone to express the singer's high note" is too straightforward and lacking tension, especially when i cannot craft the veins and muscles well.
  So now i want to change my concentration idea to "a series of figures in motion". I have had many ideas already, and i feel more comfortable working in this wide zone because i won't have to worry about surpassing the range. The very important aspect to me now is to find the right material, and i am now willing to take risk - to use steel, wood, or plaster, materials that i've never used before.
  A basketball dunking figure, a soccer ball player, a guitar player, a singer, a motorcycle rider, a dancer, and a tennis player...