This was the final assignment of my 3D art class in my final semester of college. This was also the hardest project. The project started off with a partner tracing your silhouette in front of the other classmates. It was a small and chill class, but it still put me in an uncomfortable position. While my partner was tracing my silhouette, I just started cracking up uncontrollably.
The project itself was difficult because I didn’t know how to go about it, so I just started slapping cardboard pieces on to build the general shape of it. This unorthodox method made me uneasy because I didn’t know if I was doing the “right” thing. I have a perfectionist personality so I like to have things a certain way, like is this how its “supposed to be.” By the time my project was done, I realized that I used a method that most of the class didn’t use, and I felt awkward but for good reasons. Everyone made their skin smooth while I just slapped cardboard on mine while following the structure of the face. When the assignment was done I actually loved the final product, especially the hair because it actually looked like my hair at that time. This project took the longest amount of time to finish. It went from going to the art studio only once a week to staying there all night until 6 AM with a bunch of other classmates on the last day, two hours before it was due. It was the last final before I graduated, and I honestly wouldn’t have had it any other way. I mean, we were clowning around, blasting music, and we even went to Domino’s to get pizza at 3 AM because we were all hungry.
One part of the project was to get constructive feedback from classmates about your art piece after you told them how you went about making it. I got a lot of good and cool feedback. Honestly, if I were to do it again, I would go with the smooth face style, because my perfection personality would say this is how it’s “supposed to be.” One thing about art is that you never know how it will actually turn out till the end. You just have to trust the process and stick with it, and if the outcome is bad that’s when you can learn. Most of the time, things will come out better than you think.
I feel like this is kind of like God’s view and plan in some sense. We just don’t know how grand it actually is because we don’t see the complete picture, so we just have to believe and trust Him and follow through.