T-Rex Study

For our Sketching for Communications class, we had to create the tooth of a t-rex out of Sculpey.  Unfortunately, my camera battery was dead throughout the process, and as such, I was forced to use my camera's phone for photos.

     My materials for the project consisted of Sculpey, newspaper (as I had no aluminum foil), masking tape (as I had no wire), paintbrushes for texturing and painting, a turkey tin (as I had no cooking sheet.  It did, however, work surprisingly well.), some reference photos, and a lot of time.

This photo shows my initial sculpting process, shelling out the first layer around the tooth.  I made it significantly larger than intended and used the whole box of Sculpey.

 Almost done the sculpting process.  You can see here, the butcher knife in the corner that the Russian tenant that lived in here before me left behind.  It was very useful for cutting the Sculpey!

 Beginning to paint the tooth, giving it a base coat and some simple details for future reference.

 Here I've almost finished, gotten the colours down better, and now just need to refine it.

Here be the finished product!  Yes, in fact, it is that massive, and my hand is that small.  Overall, I suppose I did a subpar job, had I the materials, I'd have been able to do a better job in both the painting and the sculpting, both in which, I quickly ran out of, due to the sheer size of the tooth.

After the tooth was completed, we were given the task of creating a poster meant for the ROM, in relation to their upcoming display of "Jimmy", the largest T-rex ever discovered.  We created an initial source file, and a poster after, using the information given.

     I firstly created a monochromatic poster, aside from the logo, so that I could fill it with swatch colours freely, and compare how much I liked the coloured, versus the white on black.

   Overall, I enjoyed creating these studies, specifically the poster, in which I exercised typographic format in creating, showing how knowledge from other classes have ultimately played into my work.