Roberto Benavidez inspiration:

In project X we had to take inspiration from Roberto Benavidez and make a mythical animal. We ended up crossing 2 animals together or finding a mythical one to draw. We used Roberto’s pinatas as a guide to make our own ones. We used their paper-making skills as a guide or a goal for what we should do.

The process:

Drawing: 1st we had to find a mythical animal to draw for ideas for our pinatas. We went on the internet and saw animals that we thought were cool and cute, and drew them all up on a sheet of A3 paper. We had to draw a minimum of 4 animals and in our pairs, we would choose our favourite or combine 2 of our favourites

Colour scheme: In our pairs, we had to photocopy our favourite design 4 times and make 2 colours schemes per person. We coloured in the designs and picked our favourites after we were both done.

Making the line and outside: After that, we sent off our design outline to the laser cutter to get it cut into cardboard sheets for our template. After they came back, we had to wrap a sheet of flimsy cardboard around the design outline and make sure to get all of the little crevices. Once we got one whole side taped up and secure, we had to tape the other side to the cardboard, and this was infinitely harder because we could not move the cardboard to our will, and it had gone to a less defined outline the further from the side it got. But we eventually got there.

Painting and papering: After we finished the cardboard outline, we had to paint the whole things white, so that, 1.) we would have an even base and 2.) it would help to keep the tape and cardboard together and stop them from falling apart. After that dried, we had to cut out coloured paper with the colour scheme we picked. it took us 6 lessons to finish it and then after that all we had to do was add pompoms and lights and we were done 🙂