Put Some Insanity Into Your 3D Wall Art Or Just The Real World

The real world is just as crazy as the 3D one if not more. Put some of that insanity into your 3D wall art. What I mean by crazy is that if you have ever taken the time to sit outside and watch the natural world around you, at different times of the day, you will notice that it is never the same.

The natural world is always changing. It's not just because of the revolving planet, weather systems, and day and night cycles, it has also something to do with entropy.

Entropy is ultimately the process of decay. It is the second law of thermodynamics.

Now I don't want to get too complicated, and what does this have to do with outdoor 3D wall art, anyway?

A lot!

But to keep it simple: the dissipation of energy and the dispersion of matter leads everything in the universe toward chaos and decay. At the same time it is the mechanism for life, and led to single cell creatures that evolved into people like you and me.

Then again, we are born, get old, fall apart and die. A sun, planet, solar system, or universe is born, gets old, and dies too.

Everything, in every cycle, is caught up in entropy, and will end up in chaos. Why do you think we constantly have to paint our houses or fences, wash the car, exercise to keep fit, repair bridges. Because everything is constantly falling apart.

So what does this have to do with you sitting outside in the park, or natural setting, when observing the plant life around you in order to gain deeper insight for creating your 3D wall art?

Everything!

Because everything is in a process of decay and chaos even when it is first born. 

 When observing the world around you, it is in the decay that the story for your 3D wall art can be found. In the case of texturing and modeling, look at the story the crazy real world of chaos is telling you. An old shed covered in vines and twisted overgrown plants, in the middle of the forest, tells a story about time, and indicates history. 

Now if the weather-beaten, cracked paint on the exterior of the shed has a heart and two names carved inside of it, this tells a story about love, perhaps love lost, and can be the beginning shot of an epic tale. If you are creating a 3D scene of the natural world using a 3D model plant what story can it tell? If the plant has tangled and spread, and suffocated the landscape, and just within view there is a street light sticking out of the bushes, a stop sign, and the crumbling facade of a bank, what story would that tell? Entropy is everything when creating interesting 3D wall art that tells a story, and has a sense of mystery!