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This is the youth theme for my church and religion is a big part of my life.

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I love shoes and collecting shoes

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I play basketball everyday and it is something I love to do.

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Know as a giraffe because I am tall and skinny.

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I love finding new music and making playlists.

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When i found out I wanted to make an octopus, I started searching up sculptures and real life octopus.

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This is a wall relief I found that shows the detail I wanted of having the legs come off the edge a little bit.

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This is inspiration I thought of how I wanted the background but through making it I changed my idea and wanted the octopus the main piece to tell my story while the other things are simple

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I wanted the fish way smaller and not as detailed as the octopus to tell my story so the school of fish I found on the website was a good reference.

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This video helped with my progress and inspiration but the ideas from this video and things I learned from class I was able to come together and form an octopus

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Octopus Sculpture, Part 1, Polymer Clay Art in Time Lapse

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This was the first head I made and ended up not liking the shape because I figured out it didn't look like a real octopus

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I made the tentacles and changed the head which you will see better in the next picture.

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As you can see in the picture above the tentacles are more skinny which I had to changed and redo all of them show below where the end next to the head is more thick. This helped the outcome of the octopus.

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This is another angle showing how i formed the legs the way I wanted on the wall relief.

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I added a small plant showing the octopus to be at the bottom grounded to the floor, and you can see the suction cups I started to add to the legs.

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I began adding the skirt to the legs as a layer of skin and this was a very difficult part because it kept breaking and I had to redo it many times.

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After much struggle of having to flip my octopus to put slip which caused a couple legs to fall off I finally got it mounted to the wall where i had to redo most of the thin skirt layer

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Here is another angle you can see I have tried to smooth out the edges and make it look clean.

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I rolled out the slab and cut lines in the edges to mark where the walls would go I redid this many times to try and get an even base this is the best I could get:)

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I started to make the walls which was harder than I thought to get them even on all sides and i had to make many and choose the best out of the many I made

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I mounted them to the board and saw the middle ones were uneven so I ended up making more so it looked more clean

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I remade a lot as shown above also but remade even long pieces to cut and fit to the right size.

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I got them more even attached with slip and smoothed out the edges

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Another angle of when they were slipped together

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I added the eyes and tried to shape them as a ball and socket looking at the video and real octopus for reference. I added more suction cups which was very time consuming in that I had to slip and score each small piece which would sometimes end in cracks or the small pieces to break

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I started to add my school of fish which was surprisingly harder than I thought having to redo many of the fish. It was hard to get a good shape and the picture below I added eyes with the same concept as the octopus

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There is a close up of the fish which was very difficult to craft since I wanted them simple and to look the same not grabbing attention from the octopus but still wanted them to look like fish. I added a small ball onto each instead of just a hole.

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While looking for ideas I searched up sculptural mug inspiration and saw this mug and I really wanted to remake it. I thought it would be a cool piece to use as display or use in college.

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I began by making a mug I rolled out a slab in class and cut the edges at a 45 and slipped and scored. I had a crease so I had to fix it. I then cut out the bottom and slipped and scored that

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Then I was helped in the making of the knuckles and the finger. I hollowed it out at the top and at the end it looked funny so i added clay so it looked like a finger at the top.

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Here is the finger I had to hollow it out a little bit at the bottom

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I then made the nose and eyebrow. I hollowed it out from the bottom and added some holes for venting. it was hard to get the shape I wanted in looking like a nose.

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This was probably the hardest part because I had all my parts and I had to add it to the mug I had to extend the had and shape it like a hand and find the position to make it look like the finger and thumb were part of the hand as a whole. I had to make the thumb bone look like it was extending while still attaching to the finger.

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I ended up attaching it together and trying my best to make it look like a hand. I was happy with the outcome as this is what took the most time.

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With the hand attached I then attached the nose

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I then rolled our two slivers of clay for the eye and attached those. It was hard keeping the form of those two small pieces but i smoothed it out and made it look uniform.

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As soon I was done the finger fell off so I had to reattach it.