Sketchmodel #2

This was something that just came to my head while I was looking at the width of the twigs. I just thought it looked cool, but then I decided to place all the twigs so that the branches turn towards each other and create unity. I placed the one twig in the top left corner away from the rest because it was the only twig that was bare of branches.

Sketchmodel #1

This sketchmodel was the beginning of my african windpipe. I planned to start a new weave at the beginning of every new level, but make the width of the weaves small, so that you could still see the twigs through the weave. Don't mind the gold paper, it was just something I had to play with.

Layout after First Critique

In the top half of this sketchbook page, I decided to draw out the windpipe that I intended on making. I wanted to switch my twigs to bamboo to create a more international feel, and I wanted to weave leather through it to bind it. If i decided to use a paper background, I would weave the leather. But if I didn't use a paper background, I would weave with paper. I would make the weaves different and switch rhythms every time I started a new weave.

In  the bottom half, I was focusing more on my forest idea. I would play with angles and elevations of the base to create a composition. I would need to clean up the holes and use a different base that would better display shadow and reflect light. In order to better convey my idea to exclude the one twig without any branches, I would need to place it further from the group of twigs and make it more obvious.

12 twigs

After talking about our first sketches, I decided to examine my twigs a little bit more, so I drew them in size order. This reminded me of an African windpipe/ flute sort of thing. I was going to use metal sheets to bind them together to make it look more modern. 

A Place for 12 Twigs: Sketch #3

This sketch was just a  last minute thing, so i couldn't thoroughly sketch it out. I wanted to create a ball of paper in the middle and then stick the twigs through it to make it look like there were 24 twigs instead of 12.

A Place for 12 Twigs: Sketch #2

This second idea was to contrast form, and somehow stick my 12 twigs into a curvy paper form. I was trying to create direction and movement as well by having the twigs and the paper far away from eachother in the beginning, and then having the two meet at the end.

A Place for 12 Twigs: Sketch #1

This first sketch was with hope to outline a 2-D paper form with a 3-D form made of twigs and contrast dimensions.