Here are my final projects. For the layers project I created a piece depicting two penguins in an icy landscape. Made with layers of painted wood and clear blue acrylic it consists of 4 different depths and a variety of pieces. For the Lantern project I made a Japanese inspired house shaped lamp using designs…
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Alexander Breiling Altered Toys Project
Still waiting on the print queue, here’s the model I’ll be printing.
Alexander Breiling Altered Toy Design
I’ve played a lot of Dungeons and Dragons and really enjoy fantasy as a genre, so I decided to create a model of a dragon to be used as a tabletop figure, either for playing D&D or as a marker in a board game.
Alexander Breiling 3D Doodles
I was just messing around on Tinkercad and Zbrush and came up with these designs
Alexander Breiling Lantern Update
When I went to cut my initial design it did not assemble correctly and over all didn’t really work. I decided that I would try and stick with the same idea but design the structure in a different way so that it would actually come together this time. Here’s a screenshot of my updated design….
Alexander Breiling Preliminary Lantern Design
For my Lantern design I decided to try and see if I could do something interesting with the shape of the box so I looked up some kerf patterns to bend the wood that I’m going to be using for the roof. The rest will be cut out in a mostly box-like shape with an…
Alexander Breiling Layers Project
I ended up finishing my project and I’m relatively happy with how it turned out. I had a little bit of trouble with sticking the two acrylic layers together so it’s a little bit messier than I’d like but I’m over all satisfied. The wood layers are put together with wood glue and the acrylic-acrylic…
Alexander Breiling Layers Project Update
Update: I have finished all of my cuts but the paint is taking a bit longer than expected to arrive so I have yet to paint and assemble the whole piece. I should have the whole project finished by tomorrow afternoon. For now, here is what I have, with the pieces placed in approximately the…
Layers Design, Alexander Breiling
Edit: I decided to completely change my design after thinking about it for a while, so here’s my new design. The inspiration and style is still pretty much the same. I’m taking inspiration from Tomsky, creating a 2d piece out of multiple different layers, each representing a color or object. The backdrop will probably be…
Alexander Breiling Drawings 1-3
Drawing 1, a fully vectored sketch that I made from a reference image of Mt. Hood.
Alexander Breiling Drawing 1
I created an image of a highway leading up to Mount Hood, the largest mountain near Portland Oregon, the city where I am from. I will often take hikes there and enjoy the nearby lakes. I also occasionally ski there in the winters. The natural beauty of the mountains and the surrounding wilderness is quite…
Alexander Breiling, An Introduction
Hello, I’m Alexander Breiling and I’m from Portland, Oregon. I enjoy art of many kinds and have been dabbling in a number of mediums ranging from playing alto saxophone, to photography. At the moment I am independently learning how to breakdance. In terms of formal art instruction I took a 2D animation course in 2019…