Module 2: Flatness vs Projection Journal

Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2018 M2 JOURNAL - FLATNESS vs PROJECTION Charlie Reinhardt

996815 Anneke Prins + Studio 1

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WEEK 3 READING: TITLE OF READING

Question 1: What is Pictorial Space according to Le Corbusier? (Maximum 100 words) Accoording to Le Corbusier, Pictorial space is ‘that which cannot be entered or circulated through; it is irremediablly space viewed from a distance, and is therefore eternally resigned to frontality’. Basically, pictorial space is the illusion of 3D space in a 2D plane. The Pictorial spaces can be depicted in many ways due to the transparancy of the image. Certain layers may create the illusion of an image being 3D, however the space is ‘eternally resigned to frontality’ and ultimately 2D.

Question 2: The Flatness of Le Corbusier’s painting’s are attributable to two properties. What are they?

And what are these pitted against?(Maximum 100 words) The flatness of Le Corbusier’s painting’s are attributable to two properties, texture and colour. Le Corbusier’s lack of black in his work allowed his planes to look extremely flat. Black can be used to ‘register the silhouettes of an object’ or depict shadow, which creates a sense of 3D space.

Furthermore, the black contrasts the lighter spaces creating depth in an image. Furthermore, by using white lead in his paintings, the texture of the white colour adds to the ‘sense of a continuous skin of paint that spans from edge to edge, without break’.

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MARIO’S WORLD

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1ST MARIO’S WORLD

2H drawing of the Mario World.

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COMBINED MARIO’S WORLD

Using a 0.1 and 0.4 fineliner, the 2H drawing was traced to produce the final piece of work.

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WEEK 4 READING: TITLE OF READING Complete your reading before attempting these questions:

Question 1: Explain the difference between Pictoral (in this case perspectival) space and Projection?

(Maximum 100 words) The difference between Pictoral space and projection is the ‘absence of a vanishing point’. In perspectival space objects which seem to be further away are depicted in a smaller manner compared to objects which appear to be closer. Whereas, projection forgets this convention purely for accuracy, it does not attempt to ‘map vision’, ‘it is concerned instead with construction and consistency of measurement’.

Question 2: Where did Axonometric projection first arise, and why? (Maximum 100 words) Axonometric projection first arose in the 17th Century in a military context, ‘used to charter the threedimensional trajectories of artillery projectiles. By the 18th and 19th Centuries, engineering schools had adopted axonometric drawings to assist in ‘mechanisation’ and ‘industrialisation’. Furthermore, architects began using axonometric projection to allow for both a ‘perspectival view’ with the accuracy of a orthographic projection.

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ILLUSTRATED MARIO’S NEW WORLD

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Final presentation of the Mario World using illustrator.

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APPENDIX

Illustrator Stage Once finishing tracing the Mario World with a 0.1 and 0.4 fineliner, the work is scanned and placed into photoshop for the levels to be adjusted.

The next stage is tracing the drawn work in illustrator using the pen tool with line weights of 0.25 and 0.5 for the section cut lines.

Finally, once finishing tracing all the lines, colours can be added.

By adding different layers onto the work, areas were organised into the different colours. For example, one layer for grass, one layer for the dirt walls and another layer for the water feature.

Drawing Stage This image develops the early drawing stages of the mario world. The first step involved laying out the two Mario Worlds at a 45 degree angle using the T-Square and Set Square. Then a piece of trace paper was placed vertically over the two images ready for the drawing stage.

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