EGGS' ADVENTURE Rochelle Z
INSPIRATION
The inspiration of my product was from a type of emoji in Wechat, which called Mr. Egg. I got a little bit inspiration about eggs from this sticker, like put different faces on eggs to express different emotion, but I prefer to use some more exaggerated ways instead of just draw a normal face.
Although at first I want to make a innovative plant pot as my product, I still want to keep the idea of egg. Both of them are pretty cool for me but hard to make as well, so I plan to mix them up and try to find another idea with my product. The problem is, if I choose egg as a plant pot, it will be useless and may people will pay more attention on what type of plants can be planted in an egg instead of how creative the idea is to use an egg as a plant pot. I dropped several ideas such as flower arrangement and yolk photoshop modify, witch are not creative enough and don't make sense. Finally, I decided to work on both eggshell and artificial plants, and try to make it with a story-telling style. As for the story sense, it should be focus on the link of plant and eggshell, more specifically, jungle and people. And then, the Eggs' Adventure come.
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For the eggs, I give them different faces to show their different characters, and try to fix all faces to "adventure" as well.
The egg in front of all of them, it's face should be express his personality as it is really proud, like a confident lead of adventors, but actually it is a rich child who doesn't have enough experiences with jungle.
These two eggs surround the first one are more like two old hunter who are really good at walk in the jungle and have a response to protect their employer - the first white egg.
The egg behind of all of them, it looks like a coward retinue of this adventor team, who is really afraid of this adventure and try its best to hide itself. Maybe it is the first time it come into a jungle.
These two eggs in right are two beautiful girls who might be quite gossip. They look at each other and smile profoundly, maybe they plan to do some terrible things or they already done.
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STUFF
I bought so many stuffs for make my Eggs' Adventure and spent a lot of money successfully. Some of them are necessary, such as boxs of eggs, brushes, glue gun, scissor, non-woven fabric and artificial plants, but I still bought some useless things that I just plan to use them but unachieveble, such as cotton rope, cake cup and box of nails. Especially I bought several colours acrylic paint, I might be really cofusion at that time and bought a green one after I already got yellow and blue. Luckily I made a best use of almost everything and complete the whole things before the deadline. Thanks for my homemate's help that she made several meals by using the yolk and egg white that I pull out from eggs, we didn't waste anything at all.
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Actually, the biggest challenge for me in this step is, I'm not the one who is famillier with the location of markets in the Gold Coast. I need to spend double time to find out what I need in several places. It is really hard that you don't know where you need to go and where you cannot find anything useful. I almost gave up when I cannot find any suitable artificial plant but finally I went through it.
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PROGRESS
The most hard thing in my progress is, I have no exprience with draw on eggs, work on eggs and hold the strength. I wasted over five eggs in the whole progress, wiche due to over press or wrong drawing, even some of them were broken after a complex step, such as coloring and pasting, and it really made me crazy. In fact, it's a pretty hard work for me to fix the artificial plants in the soil because I'm not alowed to press the soil in eggs with large strengh unless I want to break them, actually I already broke one egg due to over strength.
As for eggs, I just pick a hole in the bottom of an egg and pull the yolk and egg white out. and wash them up. I used this way on six eggs that were used as characters.
Then I choosed three eggs and brock open them, and separate the egg shells into six parts that would be made into tiny plant pots.
Finally, I used the brush to wipe some oil on the egg shells in order to increase the hardness.
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I choosed three eggs to wipe white color, in order to make each egg can be dinstinguished from surrounding ones.
Before I used black color to draw faces on eggs, I made drafts with pencil at first.
After I finished all of them, it still need several minutes to wait until the colors all dry up.
I still need to work on several eggshells and make them into tiny plant pots. Put some soil into the half-eggshells and fix plants in them.
I made a simple flower arrangement there and it works quite well after all.
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I didn't took any more photos in after work process becasue I was in confusion in that time. At first I want to paint the egg box into green but it doesn't work very well and the colour that was mixed by original yellowish-brown and green was really terrible. I gave up this idea and kept the egg box in original colour, just treat it like the soft soil should be better. I also want to ornament the eggshells, especially two of them with gril's face. I tried to make a dress to one of that two eggshells but finally I broke it because I tried to bond a lace and used glue gun on it, plus over press. I almost cried when I broke this egg, it looks like it is watching at me at that moment with upset and helpless eyes. It makes me feel a little bit scared in the midnight actually. I was really regret with this accident and felt so sorry with this egg. They gave me a lot of fun in the whole process and I don't want to lose anyone of them. I'm a quite emotional one and I felt not very good in that moment. After all I still need to draw anothewr one in same face but it was not as good as the one was broken.
After all works done, I did another stupid redundant thing. I just thought the smell of this work was quite strange and tried to perfume on the whole product. It lead to a horrible result that one egg's face was melt! I think that is due to I didn't paint a foundation on it and the colour on eggshell is really easy to melt with water. Finally I had to re-draw this egg's beard in the box because it was already glued inside. Luckily, it not looks so bad after all.
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LEARNT
Time management is so important and I will never ever delay my works until last day! Make a good plan is really helpful, I need to pay more attention on prepare works. There is a deep gap between ideal and reality, step by step might be better. Focus on one significant point, too much is as bad as too little.
Although there is a large number of challenges, I still got a big fun with this creative outcome.I love my works and really proud with all of eggshells. It was finished already but I will never forget this interesting outcome and keep thanks for the whole process of the creative thinking course ever.
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