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Module Two
Flatness vs. Projection
Fig.2.1 Mario World Elevation 1&2
Fig.2.2 Final World
Step One
Fig.2.3 Laying out and Setting up
Place the first elevation at 45 degree angle followed by the second elevation diagonally. Start axonometric drawing on a 20x20 cm square. After that, trace the drawing with fine liner and scan.
Step Two
Fig.2.4 Line-work of Axonometric Drawing by hand
After finishing tracing by hand, place it in Photoshop and clear the background as much as possible. Be prepared for illustrator work.
Step Three
Fig.2.5 Line-work of axonometric projection in Illustrator
Finish up the line-works that haven’t reached by hand-drawings in adobe software and start fill in colours. (I planned to add pyramids in the hidden space in my hand-drawings. After listening to tutor’s recommendation, I revise the drawing by adding other objects by guaranteeing the principle of keeping at least six elements.)
Fig.2.6 Colouring Mario World
Fill the line-work carefully with colour considering the light-source, the right relation between objects and the state of the object. The choice of the colour is extremely important to show the hidden space that could not be exposed in terms of perspective solely. Axonometric is of significance of exploring various possibilities of things.
Final Mario World
Fig.2.7 Final Work
Reflection
1. How does the use of colour change the perception of your drawings?
The choice of colour is able to reflect different state of the object, the light-source and the relationship between the near objects. For example, I set my light-source located at the top right of the image in my own work. (There is some colour variations between printout image and computer display.) In this case, the gradient colours of the plants and the puddle reasonably display. More specifically, different gradation of the colour in terms of two adjacent objects will offer a clearer perception of the drawings than pure elevation photos present to us.
2. How did you decide how the two projections met/ interacted with each other- What was the outcome?
I follow the tutor’s recommendation of setting the front image as the one elevation with more elements and details. To this extent, it is available for me to exhibit all the details at the front and include all the elements at the back. At the same time, I tried to divide the original pyramid-like mountain into a few similar solids by placing them at different surfaces. In order to enrich the content of the work, one of the cacti is cut into two halves and water flows are added to the door of the plants with eventually flowing into the puddle underneath the ground. After all of these transformations, the overview and the hidden space of the image are exposed to us. Axonometric projection makes it possible for numerous assumptions and manifestations of the hidden space.
3. What can you say about the revealing of the "hidden space" that is opened up to view?
Axonometric projection is useful for revealing the invisible aspects of the object while perspective only provides one possibility of the reality of the object. Throughout module two, I gradually know more about the relationship between perspective and projection. The so called “hidden space” could be interpreted in various ways because axonometric projection constructs the non-existing world. This is different from pictorial space which could only offer a fixed reality of the object. Projection is powerful. It not only extends the immediacy of a perspective view, but also displays a sense of transitivity. Creating Mario World is a way of discovering the invisible part of the object through projection.
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