Papercraft Object - Prototype 1

     For my papercraft project, I chose to do an angel figure. My thinking processes were to do two cubes for the head and body but I thought that would have been too boring and wouldn't give the "round" ish shape I wanted, so I went with a pentagon and built it off of that. My inspiration is this angel character/logo that I always use on everything, which kind of became an icon to identify things that belonged to me. I've used that for a while, it's literally on everything, printed on lanyards, laser-cut keychains, hoodies, stickers, etc. And I've never tried making that design as a 3D object so I thought why not do it for this project. Initially, I had some trouble coming up with the idea of how I would approach this as a 3-D object because I've been drawing it as a 2-dimensional figure since I've created it.

As I realized when I laser-cut the design as a keychain, that the halo was floating on its own so I knew it had to be a separate part, but making it become a paper-craft 3-D object, that would have made the design way harder to create since I wouldn't know how to attach it. I definitely completely forgot about how I would attach it after it was printed... Which as it turns out I grabbed a scrap piece of paper and created an attachment part, which did NOT hold the halo at all, well it did for a good 5 seconds before it started to descend from the original height. 
     Also, from my original inspiration, I did have a little "devil's" tail on it... I haven't decided whether I was gonna add it or not because it might be too flimsy and delicate. So far, I've decided against adding it on, this may change later.

     After making the prototype, I have found a few areas of improvement for next time, like the halo needs a better attachment area and an actual, to make it more stable, the angel wings could have used more detail or 3-dimensional feel, and possibly separated so it's an easier way to attach them. parts of the head tabs weren't great for gluing since it wouldn't stay together or keeps popping up. So I have to move around the tabs. Some tabs were overlapping the same areas so I had to trim those off, also a few lines that I forgot to delete the duplicated lines.
     From the peer discussion session in class, I've gathered the idea to somehow make the angel-wings 3-D or at least look less flat, whether it was detail feathers or just making a few folds within a more structured version of the wing (like making it a "block" or shape instead of one flimsy piece of paper)