Kit Forming

It is about time I updated here with my latest activities. The same ones that kept me busy hence the lack of posts. heh As if I didn't have enough assignments as it is, my teacher likes to make sure we are truly suffering by throwing in home work assignments here and there. But I'm not really complaining because these quick little "speed arts" that I call them are really great for keeping your mind sharp and thinking creatively.
Our only criteria for these assignments is a technique that I hold very high and is now a common tool I use regularly in my tool box: Kit Forming. After "seeing the light " of how poerful such a simple thing is, I often wonder why it has never been mentioned in art books or taught in other institutions, granted my teacher is the only one to really perfect it, he's been teaching it for years, and yet it has never caught on anywhere else.
To briefly explain what it is exactly is simply this:
And this applys to all mediums in the arts, or even to your daily life if you allow it.
So, just like any model kit you see in hobby stores, by simply breaking down what it is that you want to do in the most BASIC fundamental shapes (circle, square, triangle, oval), tasks or movements, you can make and do ANYTHING. And trust me when I say anything. Not only do you do it faster, you are more efficient and the quality is MUCH better. You can make yourself look like a pro if you take this seriously.
So how about a visual example? But of course! Here is the sketch, break down and final result of my my first assignment.

I call this piece "The Light keeper" (inspired by Cirque du Soleil and fairy tail illustrations, the creepy ones haha):


SketchBreakdown
ResultAs you can see it looks different from the sketch, and that's perfectly fine. Part of doing this too is to make you elaborate and expand your ideas. And more often then not your finished product will look a lot better then your original idea.

I have a second kit formed sculpture, but unfortunately I forgot to take a pic of it before I took it to school to turn in. I will get that taken on Monday and updated here as soon as I can, but for now I'll show you the idea I was working with, another piece I'm quite proud of. Apperently I'm on some kind of weird creature kick. haha I dunno, they are just so fun to create.

I call this "The Tyrant". The white King of chess:
Breakdown
The result pretty much looks pretty close to the sketch with some artistic liberties, but all in all it came out a lot better then I thought it would. I also hope to get some more "professional" shots taken of these after they have been fired and glazed. But those you'll have to be patient with for it usually takes till the end of the semester for that process to happen. But I will get as many preliminary shots in of them as I can as well of everything else I'm doing this semester. I will keep up to date with work in progress shots as time goes and at the end have the "professional" shots of them finished. You have lots to look forward too. I just hope I'm still alive at the send of all this. lol
But for now I'll leave you with a little sneak preview of what I'm working on right this min:

Hmm, what is this that I'm making here, a flux compacitor perhaps? Only time will tell. ;)

-Chris

The last picture looks like computer parts. I've dissected and constructed them so I'd hope I know what I'm talking about. But you're artsy so I'm guessing my hope of you ever having a proper computer is not the answer. If those are the parts from your crappy computer then I'll do a happy dance because that thing needs to die a horrible death... and put on display for all to see. What better way than a sculpture! Call it Failure. Of course I'm probably wrong since if you didn't have a computer you probably wouldn't be posting on the blog.... Unless you're inventive like me. I love visual basic it got me passed school security by making a browser ten... twelve years ago or something. You wouldn't believe how easy they are to make. It boggles my mind that people like AOL would totally fail at making browsers. Makes me wonder if they fail on purpose.

As for your creepy light dude... he looks pretty cool as a sculpture and less creepy if you overlook he has a clown suit. Clowns are creepy to me. I don't like clowns. No matter how cute you make the sketch or sculpture there is no bypassing me associating clowns as creepy. Obviously the only "circus" I'll watch is your inspiration. I lived in Vegas where they have shows all the time! I'm so mad I never got to see one. I saw the Blue Man Group and Tournament of Kings. I saw a Chevelle and Evanescence concert there (the only two bands worth mentioning at least.. there were two more but they didn't fit and sucked). But NOT Cirque du Soleil. There is something wrong with that. Mystere and Zumanity looks really interesting. I'll have to remedy this.

~Amy