Major Issues in Our Twig Models

Some major issues i noticed in our critiquing today dealt with sloppy usage of a binding agent, overall craftsmanship, and proportion. With some projects, it was also difficult to determine if the "story" they told was more about the paper than the twigs themselves. On one project where someone used a hot glue gun, they left splotches of glue in obvious places that was extremely unappealing and it could have been easily fixed. Several different models seemed to have to much going on in the visual. Either they had to much color, or they had twigs that didn't have much potential to stand out against their environments.

In my own model, i learned that there was quite a bit of room for improvement. The twigs i used were tiny and didn't stand out very much from across the critiquing room. It was also small and not as 3D as it needed to be to make it more visually interesting. Some ideas we had to improve my model were to raise the bottom platform and/or angle it to one side, put more emphasis on the twigs by making them larger, and to use color to contrast the twigs.

There were also some positive ideas that I was introduced to today in class. One girl was going to use tension as her binding agent which sort of led me to think differently about the concept of a binding agent. Another classmate used geometric shapes for every angle you could possibly turn his project. This caused his model to look neat and precise from all different views and prospectives.