Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2017 M2 JOURNAL - FLATNESS vs PROJECTION Stephanie Lam 911615 Studio 3- Raynaldo Ali
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WEEK 3 READING: TITLE OF READING
Question 1: What is Pictorial Space according to Le Corbusier? Le Corbusier views pictorial space as a volume that cannot be entered or defined by mathematical reasoning. It is simply a dimension of art that appears to retreat into the background. The depth from the viewing point gives the illusion of distance.
Question 2: The Flatness of Le Corbusier’s painting’s are attributable to two properties. What are they? And what are these pitted against? The Flatness of Le Corbusier’s paintings is attributable to his recourse to the use of black. Instead, he used white lead in his pigments as a way to convey a sense of continuous skin in the paint which spans the surface from edge to edge. The lack of black diminishes Le Corbusier’s ability to create depth and shadows which thus create flatness in his paintings. This is pitted against the knowledge that one has about space by the means of rations through it.
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MARIO’S WORLD
Original Mario World Prompts World: 3-15
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1ST MARIO’S WORLD
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COMBINED MARIO’S WORLD
Given the cloud world, I chose to add a castle in the center of the mountains to emulate a “castle in the clouds”. The floating cloud platform reminds me of “Jack and the Beanstalk”. The tube structure can be interpreted as the “beanstalk”. The scene I wanted to depict is just a happy day for Mario as he enjoys a stroll or runs around his fortress. I kept all elements within my created world true to the Mario universe as I felt it would appear and feel more coherent.
World: 3-15
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WEEK 4 READING: TITLE OF READING
Question 1: Explain the difference between Pictoral (in this case perspectival) space and Projection
Pictorial space is the illusionary space in a painting or in the two-dimensional art that appears to retreat backward into depth from the picture plane. While projection is the process or technique of replicating an object on a plane or curved surface or a line by projecting its points.
Question 2: Where did Axonometric projection first arise, and why? One of the first axonometric projection displays was in a military context where it was used to track the three-dimensional trajectories of artillery projectiles. Artists of the 20th century wanted to experiment with the capacity of the traditional art of deprecating the world and re-imagine art as a way to portray new worlds. With the appeal of being able to create spaces that did not exist in reality, there was an attraction towards axonometric projection. Axonometric projection is able to depict abstract information and display it as a measurable and precise form.
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ILLUSTRATED MARIO’S NEW WORLD
All the colors within the illustrations are derived from the Mario world images as seen on page 3. The mountains were created using the “clipping mask” function. I added a few extra elements from the original drawing as I felt the illustration looked a little empty. I added Luigi to give Mario a companion and an extra green mushroom because the left side of the illustration was lacking the color green and it didn’t seem harmonious. I also changed the piranha plant. I thought it would look better if it were to be straight as everything else in the illustration has a linear orientation.
World: 3-15
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APPENDIX
For the characters of Mario and Luigi I traced them over an image I found on the internet. They are essentially in the same posture so it was easy to create both of them. I made Mario first and used him as a template for Luigi. For Luigi I simply took the illustration of Mario and distorted him to look slimmer and taller and traced new facial hair and “L� logo for him. I also changed the color Luigi completely. I used a reference picture of Luigi to do so.
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Illustrated Mario and Luigi with the reference pictures
For the bricks of the castle I created one singular side of the brick by using the line tool to make a 1cm by 1cm rhombus. I then used the pen tool to create the lines to form the brick pattern. To create the wall I copied and pasted the individual brick. To create the other face of the castle which had the bricks facing a different angle I distorted a singular brick and copied and pasted that.
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Elements of my Mario World was created through the use of the clipping mask tool. They include the glass blocks, green snowy hills and wooden blocks. Since they are are at a 45 degree angle I couldn’t use the clipping mask tool on the original Mario world prompts. I used Microsoft word to tilt the photos. I cropped the elements I needed, then I used “3D rotation” to get the image to be 45 degrees. I then screenshot the image and use clipping mask.
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