Process & Procedure

[Outline your approach to the project. What steps did you take to design, model, sketch, and prototype this projects? What ideas did you generate and how did you refine or reject them? How did you use cutting, etching, scoring? What challenges were encountered and how did you resolve them? Include photos of prototypes, redesigned sketches, design worksheets, and failed trails.]

I first sketched out the image of my dog in my sketchbook and how I would want the clock to look like. My plan was originally to make all of the details and outlines on out of one material, however I decided to use multiple materials and then stack up the layers of acrylic and wood. To incorporate more layers and materials, I thought about the dimensionality of my dog's face and which features I would want to extend out from the bottom layers. Because my dog is has white, brown , and black fur, I thought using white and black acrylic and wood would be appropriate. Certain features such as the eyebrows and eyes I decided to engrave into. I realized, however, by stacking up the layers of acrylic, the clock kit did not fit appropriately. To resolve this issue, I had to layer some of the pieces, such as the nose, over the hour hand for everything to stack together perfectly. The minute hand and the second hand then perfectly fit over all the other layers.