Always obsessed with architecture and planet environment, in this idea-free project, I decided to produce a drawing very related to my interests and my personalities. While browsing the pictures for inspirations, I found these three and also initialed the theme based on them. Compared to the history of creatures, or even the history of the earth, human’s and architecture’s are just infants in cradles. How about reserving or pushing this idea much further? What if a traditional temple had existed before human, religions, and civilization appeared?
Then, since the original outcome of this project was to analyze composition, I searched paintings by Peter Paul Rubens and Japanese woodblock artists, meanwhile making some “auxiliary” lines on the top of each to help myself see more clearly.
After analyzing a few classic and modern masterpieces, I began to experiment composition myself. Thus, here comes this simple sketch.
Finally, collaging all the elements in Photoshop, I chose to apply asymmetrical diagram to my large-scale drawing. Hence, the little mammoth on the left balances the large temple on the right, and there are also a few dialogues going through the mountain, the river and the glacier.
One interesting part in actually drawing it was to use the (electronic) erasers. It was very fun playing with the erasers to create a large scale of value and a lot of different tones. Instead of making the temple (handrails and windows) solid in black or grey, I erased them in white, along with using white charcoal for details.
Overall, I enjoyed this project very much and had a perception of composition. I still remember I was very delighted when I was drawing and finished drawing. Considering this 2-D drawing/painting composition as an approach to get access into 3-D composition in architecture and urban planning is completely another perspective and inspiration for me to take advantage from in the future.