New 1-day props
polycounter lvl 5
Okay, After receiving an abundance of great advice, I decided to take part in the 3Daily challenge and managed to create two new props so far, I may not be able to do one every day, but At least the practice is helping me make better stuff and let's me take a break from the rut of trying to make the same thing over and over till I think I've got it right.
Critiques are welcome as they will help me improve with each new project, at the end of this I hope to have several items that will serve well in my portfolio.
Sledge Hammer
Old Fashion Radio
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Sooo, I guess these are no good then?
Since the Radio is the stronger of the two pieces I made, how do I push that piece further? Because that's pretty much an example of the best I can do right now with my current level of knowledge. So what can I do to make it better?
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot – albeit a perfect one – to get an “A”.
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
I think this is the big takeaway here. You'll need to develop the ability to know when you need to keep pushing/polishing and when you need to call something "done" and move on to the next learning experience. Getting bogged down in minutiae with diminishing returns on a project can be just as detrimental as rushing through assets trying to get a new thing done every day without taking your time to do things properly.
And on the note of polishing, I've revisited the hammer and immediately recognized I needed to make the wood less flat and glossy like it's fake and go for a more rugged an natural look.
While it's still not necessarily "done", I can at least recognize it's is a step up from how it looked before and how it should have looks at the beginning. Now I just have to figure out how to do the same thing to the hammer head.