Modelling Clay

 



Since buying this kit a few months ago, I haven't had the time to use them.







Now they have been put to good use!

Colours!

Playing around with coloured pencils.



Figured I'd make a realistic version of the little shark I created.






Rendered on Canson Mi Teintes white paper with Scholar coloured pencils.

Cheetoshark

One of my favourite junk food snacks...

May as well take the opportunity to make a shark.

Stuck.

 




Need to make more of these and stick them all over the city!

Stickers!

I designed this to be used as a sticker. I bought sheets of sticky labels; the design just needs to be printed and trimmed.

It was based off of the pen doodle.

Created in Adobe Illustrator.

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

Since shark fins are triangular in shape, why not make a shark entirely out of triangles?

 Cut from cardboard. I forgot how difficult it is to create sharp points when cutting out cardboard.

I planned to do a shadow of a shark by making a cut-out similar to this, but rather with just one large shadow. Might as well put this one to use and do a reverse shark shadow! Two birds, one stone.

Pen

Just a quick pen doodle based on the image created for Graphic Design I.

Shark Fin Soup.

Image taken for Photography class.

I used one of my shark toys and whipped up a quick concoction to resemble soup/broth.

For Visual Dynamics class, I used the photo to do a pencil rendering.

Created using graphite pencil on illustration board.

Negative & Positive

 



This was created for the Graphic Design I course. We were to choose an object or animal to explore strong line work (left) and solid planes (right).

 




An image of the full assignment; bottom was to incorporate both lines and planes by combining a musical instrument and animal.

Completed in black marker on white paper.

Night Lights

Played around with glowing eggs...









Another attempt; shape not so great, but the colours turned out well...

Cigarlitter

 

 

cig·ar·lit·ter/ˌsigərlitər/

noun: a combination of the words cigarette and litter that I just made up.

Apparently, cigarette butts are the most littered object in the world. Quite depressing really; such a small object, but some 4.5 trillion are discarded annually.

 

I am not a smoker, but I know many people who do. I'm certain a lot of their cigarette butts just get thrown onto the ground... Would it be wrong for me to stop them? I don't think it would be out of line... 

 

Anyway, I used my dad's cigarette butts from the picture above to make the guy shown below.

 

 

I've picked up other people's litter before. I have even picked up a few cigarette butts (washed my hands after, of course). If only people didn't throw them on the ground in the first place.

 

I have a friend whose dog died from cancer because of eating cigarette butts that were thrown onto the lawn by one of the relatives. One could argue the dog could have been better trained or better watched over, but I think it is a lot easier to control the actions of our own than the actions of others. 

 

So, let's save a dog and stop cigarlittering! And littering, in general!

SKITTLES!

I most definitely have a problem with sugar.

Made with one full pack of Skittles, the Riddles variety. 

A Catshark's Diet

Cat... shark.


Cat... food.


Not quite shaped like a catshark... at all.








I didn't feel like cleaning it up that night, and this is how I found it the next day.

Cookies & Cream

One of my favourite chocolate bars...







I'm surprised I didn't break it into a million pieces.

Hair Elastics

Hard to get the exact shape I wanted...

Pie = Prey

Who wouldn't want a slice of pie?

GUMMIES!

 


I may have slight problem with sugar.

 Made with Gummy Neon Worms, the Great Value brand.

All chalked up.

Imagine this guy without fins... He would look pretty silly.

SAVE SHARKS!

Cotton Balls

Who says sharks can't be fluffy?

Water Droplets

Finger and condensation on window were used. 

 

We wouldn't have condensation on our windows, if we didn't have oxygen.

We wouldn't have most of our oxygen, if we didn't have plankton.

We wouldn't have plankton, if our fish ate them all.

Our fish would eat them all, if we didn't have sharks to eat them and regulate the populations. 




Close-up:

Sharks are friends...

... not food!


Not quite as effective as the original saying "Fish are friends, not food!"



Not sure if it makes me a hypocrite for being someone completely against the killing of sharks, but likes sushi. Personally, I think it's different, but I'm sure there are people who don't think so. Sorry if I offend any of them...



Carved from salmon. I'm certain there is actually shark sushi/sashimi somewhere out there. Breaks my heart.

Push Pins!

Just did some quick researching to double check the name of these bad boys, and I found out they were invented in 1903! Who would have thought they've been around for so long?





As the title says, push pins on a cork board. I had a bunch of extra ones being unused so I rearranged them. Actually harder than it seems; you have to position them right, making sure they angle straight up. Somewhat hard on the fingers too, haha!

Foiled.

Surprised I managed to get a good cut-out on the first try. Exacto knife and chocolate wrapper used.

Pencil to reference size.

Save the cute and fluffy!

What about saving the kings of the sea?

If you ask someone to name a few endangered species, most people will say pandas, tigers, polar bears, and all those other cute and fluffy creatures. Not many people, if any, will mention sharks. No one thinks that the ferocious and scary "man-killers" need saving.

I love clothespins.

 
During my high school years, I developed this odd love for clothespins. It originated when I found out about The ClothesPIN Game, which simply involves clipping clothespins on people without them noticing to earn points.

(If you want to learn more about this game, click here!)




Since then, I've had a whole bunch of clothespins clipped to various things in my room, so I thought I'd put them to good use!

 

This was actually quite difficult... It might have been easier to take some apart for certain areas of the shark, but I wanted to keep them true to their shape. Plus, I realized I didn't have as many as I thought I did...

The clothespin is such a simple, everyday object, but if you look closely, it has such a genius design. This might sound bizarre, but I think they're beautiful; they could be used for so many things, yet are so affordable. 

Like clothespins, sharks are beautiful as well. Too bad most people are too blinded by fear to realize...

Blocks!

Created on Minecraft; a game where you place blocks to build anything and everything imaginable. At night and in dark places, monsters lurk about. 

Normally, it's played on the computer, but I used the version on my cellphone. So, a small screen combined with being a 2-block tall person made for a difficult few hours.

But enough about Minecraft... Did you know sharks have been around for about 420-450 million years? That's long before the dinosaurs (approximately 230 millions years ago), and many other land animals and plants, started walking around. 

They've been around for so long, yet in the past 20-30 years, some species' populations have declined by 70-90%. I wonder who caused that...

SAVE THE SHARKS!

The Paper Shark...

... the deadliest of species.

Scrap paper assembled. To be recycled or reused, not thrown out!

100 million sharks are killed worldwide by humans per year. Only 100 humans are attacked worldwide by sharks per year. Who should be afraid of whom?

First Day, First Shark

Shark skeleton chasing a fish skeleton. Black marker on white card stock.