Personal Narrative-Stage Design

Over the past term and a bit, I feel in general that I have achieved what I was aiming for in concern with creating a halloween container/basket. Starting this assessment with a lot of drawing and sketching and jumbled ideas and designs, I thought that I would be a hard task filled with challenges and difficulties. However it turned out to be the complete opposite. Choosing my final design, which has now been modified and changed, I started the real work. Even though I started this design with little knowledge on clay, I was excited and enthusiastic to learn. I feel that over this time period I have been able to work well, considering that I had two weeks break, whiling firing my clay. I am very happy with the end product and have already discussed with my mum what we are going to do with it. …show more content…
Sculpturing my piece I became aware of many small details I hadn't thought about, including the weight of the entire basket. Even though I wouldn't use my final piece as a basket to take treat or treating, I still would have preferred it to be more light and less delicate feeling. Reflecting back on it now, I feel as though I could have spend more time on a certain step, which allowed me to scoop out any excess clay inside. Realising the dilemma I had to alter the design so that the basket wouldn't be a complete fail and crumble apart when carry it. So what I had to make a decision on was whether or not to get rid of the monsters legs, in the end I did and I think I made the right choice. Current changes that I wouldn't have liked to touch up would have been the adding teeth. However in the begging I decided not to as it was overcrowding and making the atmosphere and balance worst. So in the end I would have had to change a lot more then keeping the monster