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In my normal night-owl fashion, I worked till probably 3 am completing my mask by finishing design elements/details on the surface of my mask so that I could drop it off along with the rest of my materials at school during the class period.

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(12/17/20): Laying out the lines for detailing

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(12/17/20): Laying out the lines for detailing

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Started doing a rough outline with a pin of how I wanted the "tree bark" to look like.

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After flipping my mask over, I worked to thin out the back of my mask so that it would not surpass 1 inch of thickness, and so that it would have a uniform thickness across the entirety of the surface.

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(last thing done on 12/15/20) Formation of the tree on forehead

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(last thing done on 12/15/20) Formation of the tree on forehead

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The last thing I decided to do on Tuesday, was to build up the branches onto the flat surface of the piece of clay attached to the forehead of my mask in order to create a tree.

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Finally decided on placement and carefully attached each piece of clay to form the mess of fungi growing out of the surface on the right side of the face.

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Started messing around with the placement of these wavy pieces of clay on the right side of the face so that I could finalize where I wanted the fungi to go.

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(12/11/20)Adding a mouth and base for a tree...

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(12/11/20)Adding a mouth and base for a tree...

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So I forgot to take a picture after I created the eyes for my mask, but I also added a mouth, nose and the base for the tree on top of the head during these past two days.

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After realizing that my mask had a rather flat surface, I took your advice of stuffing it full of more crumbled up magazine pages and worked on shaping the mask into a more rounded surface, I also added support to the horn on the left side.

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Again another late night project, I attached the full horn and then broken pieces of the other one to the surface and created divits where the eye sockets would be.

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So these pictures taken at 3:40 am are the first ones I have in my camera roll for the project, so I don't have any pictures before I took a pin and drew out a rough outline on the surface of the mask to represent all the features I was planning on putting on later.

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Just a picture of the mask I made in seventh grade that I loosely based this mask off of...

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Rough sketch of my plan for the mask

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Slide presentation with all the pictures I used as reference for my mask project.

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Separating the mug project and the mask project.

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Just some more angles of the face mug

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Well we did it, finally finished the adventure, also this is just an apology for having so much writing for you to read, I think I got a little carried away, but anyways thanks for coming along for the journey.

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"THE FINALE OF THE FIVE PART MINI SERIES: 'tents are better for drying than sleeping bags'"

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"THE FINALE OF THE FIVE PART MINI SERIES: 'tents are better for drying than sleeping bags'"

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Well would you look at that, finally made it to the end, the face mug completed its' journey in a comfortable, spacious and breezy tent so it could have it's handle dry in place.

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(11... do I still need to put the date, I think you get the point) "Part four of the five part mini series: 'head rest while handle dries'"

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(11... do I still need to put the date, I think you get the point) "Part four of the five part mini series: 'head rest while handle dries'"

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Whoops, little bit of a sneak peek to the final product, but anyways here's the mug taking a quick snoozer while letting the handle dry.

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(11/13/20) "Part three of the five part mini series: 'eye can see, get it, it's a pun, sorry that was really bad...'"

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(11/13/20) "Part three of the five part mini series: 'eye can see, get it, it's a pun, sorry that was really bad...'"

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Finally! No more creepy eye sockets, oh yeah and added those blood bags above the eyes and some THICK eyebrows... looks like this mug is really shaping out nice, sorry I'll stop with the awful jokes...

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(11/13/20)"Part two of the five part mini series: 'now that's what I call lips'"

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(11/13/20)"Part two of the five part mini series: 'now that's what I call lips'"

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So I couldn't leave those disgraceful lips in the previous post the way they were, so BOOM! Curvy full lips!

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(11/13/20)"The beginning of a five part mini series: 'quit pouting'"

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(11/13/20)"The beginning of a five part mini series: 'quit pouting'"

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Well it's come down to the last night (well I guess really early morning in this case...), great job past Courtney, super smart going there, especially on my busiest day of the week, but anyways in this first part I laid down the foundation of some thin crisp smackers.

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See, back in business, so proud, sculpted the shape of the face and smoothed out massive sniffer, also rounded the back side to look like the back of someone's head.

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(11/11/20) "A stick in the road, or a very long anime series"

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(11/11/20) "A stick in the road, or a very long anime series"

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Heh heh, funny story, had the best intentions to work on my mug on Veterans Day, I was gonna be a good student and get so much work done, but... I might've gotten a little bit distracted. Honestly, I blame my brother for this because he's the one who was watching Attack on Titan with me, but yes, okay I did watch almost two whole seasons on Veterans Day, so my bad, will resume progress on the 12th.

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(11/10/20)(again) "woah look there's a nose"

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(11/10/20)(again) "woah look there's a nose"

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After pushing maybe 30 holes in my nose the first time I attempted it, I finally realized I could just use addition so that I could shape the nose without leaving holes to leak liquid everywhere when I use this mug in the future... and so this marked my first success on this expedition

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A bulge for a nose and two eye sockets was all I had when I started my journey.. with all odds against me and time running out, the journey for the completion of the face mug begins:

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Yes, I know it's crazy that I worked on a Monday, but at this point I realized the dangerous game I was playing of *PROCRASTINATION*, so I needed to kick this project into high gear so I could move onto the second mug and be done by the end of the week. With this all being said, all I did was clean up the edges and stuff a little bit, but still... at like 9am that's hard work, even locating the sponge was an adventure... Anyways, to make this more fun for you to read, since I'm sure reading hundreds of student's padlets must be really fun, I'll try and make this next mug more fun to read about.

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So I checked up on my mug, and to no surprise, since I gave my mug very little drying time, it was still pretty "squishy" (I'm sorry I know that's not the right terminology for it, but it's been a long week and my minds a bit fried, so were going with the word squishy for something that's not dry yet.. wait would I call it wet?, shoot I'm thinking too much into this, we'll just stick with squishy), so I let it dry out for another day in a tent.

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Some more angles of the handle while I was setting up to let it dry out a bit.

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After watching the handle demonstrations, I realized that for this mug I would have to use an entirely different method in order to make a handle that could resemble a needle. So, using the advice you gave me, I used spacers in order to connect a needle to the cup to be used as an implied handle. This took a while of experimenting, but ultimately I think that it turned out okay for my first time ever making a mug.

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Finished the basic outline of all the grooves, and continued to try and make them all a bit deeper and more visible.

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I used a fork to go around the entire outside of my mug, to make sure all the lines were evenly spaced out and that I would easily be able to make grooves to resemble thread on a spool. Then, I started pressing into my mug and smoothing out the lines so that it would have a raise in texture, so you could actually feel the change in each "thread".

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After being put together on the 28th, I ended up just wrapping up both cups and going to bed, so I saved the clean-up of the cups for the next day. Also since the clay was super soft and was easily maneuverable I figured it would be better if I gave the mugs at least another day to dry out just a little bit so they could hold their structure while I molded them.

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Finally finished making both cups at 3am on October 28th. Also, just as a heads-up I kind of forgot to take pictures for a good chunk of the project, so there are pictures that are taken pretty sporadically, but I think they overall showcase the process I took when making my mugs.

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Similar to the last project I uploaded all of my reference photos onto a google slide presentation.

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Just something to separate the two projects...

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Sketched out a possible design option for the personal narrative project; revolves around a blind-folded skull, with a crack down the center of its' head, showcasing a brain being picked apart by an angel and a demon.

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This link leads to a slide presentation I made that has all of my reference photos on it (I gave access to anyone who is in the San Marcos School District, as long as they have the link, so you should be able to access it.)

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Finished building the structure of the wall-relief. Also, I think its important to admit that this took forever... I was really struggling and got to be honest I think that its a little smaller than the 12 inch size requirement that was asked of us, I kept trying to smooth it out after I made it and measured it, but then I just kept kinda shaving the sides down... so sorry...

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Finished skull and attached to wall-relief.

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Started working on angel face.

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On my last day of working on the angel I had started at maybe 11:45 pm... I don't know something like that, it was super late, anyways I finished the following day at 2:44 am according to my camera roll.. so yeah that was cool, to be fair I was watching a podcast while doing it so might have gotten a little distracted, but I had to remake the body quite a few times to find out how I could get it to look the way I wanted it to... also please ignore my foot and messy desk it was really late at night and I think I was getting delusional...

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Yes, in the same night (well I guess morning) I thought it was a good idea to attach the angel before it dried out. So according to my camera roll, I got it fully attached at 3:44 am, it took a pretty long time because I realized that the back side of the wings hadn't been carved out deep enough to withstand being stuck to the wall-relief so that the part that hangs off wouldn't smear/get smushed, so I had to fix them then determine placement of everything.

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Created the face and began to work on the body and limbs.

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Finished sculpting the demon for the other side of the skull on my wall-relief(this took a long time because I kept remaking the body and limbs...).

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At about 3 am on October 10th I officially finished my project. I had attached the demon sculpture and carved a halo and tail into the background of my piece. This choice was because it shows the motives of both figures as the angel has its halo above its head because it is attempting to bring me up as a person and to make things better, meanwhile the demon has a tail with a sharp-arrow shaped end that is pointing down because it is lowering and making me a worse person.

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Just some more pictures of the final product.