FODR M2 Journal - Tony Cheung (913682)

Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2017 M2 JOURNAL - FLATNESS vs PROJECTION Tony Cheung

(913682) Anneke Prins + Studio 10

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WEEK 3 READING: LEGER, LE CORBUISER, AND PURISM

Question 1: What is Pictorial Space according to Le Corbusier?

According to Le Corbusier, pictorial space is the space of an artwork inspected from a distance by the viewer. This guarantees the notion and impression of depth, despite its flat, two-dimensional restrictions.

This also means that the image is subjected to frontality, or the perspective of a viewing angle directly in front. This creates a style of ‘compression’, as if the entire volume of the image was flattened into a pancake.

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

And what are these pitted against?

Despite the flatness of his paintings, two properties employed to create the sense of depth within his paintings, namely the continuity of strokes, and the usage of colour and contrast. The continuous, uninterrupted lines constitute form and details along the edges, while the darkness and lightness of texture define the illusion of depth from shadows and highlights. Colour primarily forms contrasting components which creates the sense of figure-ground, effectively separating the object from the background and dispelling the flatness.

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MARIO’S WORLD

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1ST MARIO’S WORLD

First rendering and detailing of axonometric composition, done with 2H pencil. Many of my lines are quite lightly drawn. Some characters are missing as I only developed them in later stages with Adobe Illustrator.

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COMBINED MARIO’S WORLD

Second render of my axonometric composition, done in 0.2 and 0.4 fineliner. The majority of the background blocks are finalised.

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WEEK 4 READING: AXONOMETRIC PROJECTION: NEW GEOMETRIES AND OLD ORIGINS Question 1: Explain the difference between Pictoral (in this case perspectival) space and Projection?

Pictorial or perspectival space binds the viewer’s perception to a single point of view, that is, a view with perception of depth, but restricted to diminishing points on a plane. As the space in a pictorial view is warped or altered based on the position from the viewer, objects in a perspective space cannot be measured. A projection solves some of these issues by combining the depth of pictorial space with the style of orthographic projections, meaning all lines are measurable. Perspectives usually appear to have static motions, whereas projections suggest continuous motions through a continuous space.

Question 2: Where did Axonometric projection first arise, and why?

Axonometric projections first arose from military drawings and designs to display useful parts and information in a scientific manner. The angular distortion from perspective formats was solved by the nature of projec-tions, which could present the depth of perspective drawings with the measurability of orthographic projec-tions. While the object’s shape may be distorted, the measurements were not.

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ILLUSTRATED MARIO’S NEW WORLD

Final axonometric composition, rendered using Adobe Illustrator.

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APPENDIX

Setting up reference Mario images along 45 degree axis.

Finishing up with the first pencil axonometric composition.

Finishing the pencil composition of first reference image.

Tracing over pencil work with a black 0.2 fineliner to bring out lines and line weights.

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