This week we combined what we learned in the previous weeks, by taking one of our expressive human figures, we were to explore, and refine the expression by abstracting it. I chose my "confused" and "angry" figures for this exploration.
Confused
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I felt that the head scratching gesture and relaxed but slightly askew head were important in expressing this feeling. I combined the two to arrive at the final model.
When I had finished with this one, he started looking a little more curious than confused, but because of that I realised the two expressions aren't necessarily exclusive of each other.
Anger
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From what we learned in class, anger is most strong when it's directed towards something. There's also an inherent tension, but one without much dynamicism, otherwise it starts becoming a slightly different emotion. With the above I was mainly playing around with the direction and focus of the emotion. On the left I gave it a more solid base, and this made it seem more intimidating and looming. On the right, the lack of directed focus makes it seem more anguished.
You can see that when I was making my final "Anger" piece, he started becoming a companion piece to my "Confused" model. I couldn't get away from thinking these were little (or big?) creatures from another world, just going about their daily lives.
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In class, they were pretty well received. My classmates could easily tell what they were expressing, however they weren't as visually interesting as I wanted them to be. With the feedback I received, I refined them a little.
With "Confused" I mainly polished him up a little, and gave him something to be confused about.
"Anger" was given more substantial legs, and better defined edges. In the previous version his hind leg was too curved, which contradicted the overall expression, so it was changed to match the other legs.
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And of course, he needed something (or somedroid) to be angry with!
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