Creative Thinking
A creative thinker can come up with, and add to, ideas. The ideas that they produce are usually outside of the box/outside of the ordinary. Their ideas can be judged by others just because no one has thought of them yet and people don’t know enough about the idea. They can also improve ideas that they have already come up with and didn’t like at the time as well as extending other ideas.
Critical Thinking
A critical thinker pays attention to details when thinking, or making, something. Just like creative thinkers, they are able to think about what they need to change in an idea or how to change an idea into something better. They are also good at thinking before doing. They can think critically about what is needed so they come up with a solution to a kink in idea they had.
Where did we use this in 3D arts?
When we made our sphere projects, we had to use both critical and creative thinking. We had to make sure that all pieces stay together in the kiln as well as how we were going to make sure they don’t explode. We also had to make our sphere look less like a sphere by decorating and adding different elements to it. We added a face or carved something into it to look less like a sphere. Another project we had to use critical and creative thinking was when we made ocarinas. We had to make sure that it made a good sound as well as looked nice. Some people carved different things into their ocarinas and other added different clay pieces to it. I think in 3D arts that we use a lot of critical and creative thinking on the daily.
(Pictured below is my fish themed ocarina; the first 2 pictures, and my frog sphere project)
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