Day 2: Trial and Error - Fabricio

Trial and Error

As the second day sprang into action I realized that making a detailed reference point drawing in Adobe Illustrator would be nearly impossible. This led to a major change involving the layer in front of the tower. Whilst pondering on what to do next, I took a good long look at the tower and thought that it wasn’t enough for that entire layer, so I got the original image again and cropped only one specific part of it and made it into what I thought was usable. Then I doubled it and put one on each side of the main tower, and voila it now looked better. After doing this, I was still not sure on what to do, so out of nowhere I tried to add a base to the bottom of the towers, and this led to the next couple of hours wasted entirely. I realized too late that if I simply put a rectangle as the base it would take the perspective of the diorama completely out of the circle, so I made a trapezoid which required some help from connor since I had no idea how to make one. Then when I put the trapezoid in the correct layer, but when I did it looked really strange Because it just looked like the tower was just cut at one point. Then I tried to add a foundation to the tower but that failed and I scrapped the whole “base” thing. After this I found out that if I’m going to have layers then I’m going to need to add rectangles to the bases of my original layers so that it would reach the bottom of the artboard because without them the paper would never hold. After making the bases I was told that I would need a sort of imaginary frame around the canvas so that when we made it there would be enough space for the actual, physical frame. By the time I had completed this the day was already over, but for the next day I had plans to add another mountain layer and completely different surface layers, this time involving trees and perhaps a reflection across water.

This is the finished product by the end of day two. The grey area is just the background of adobe and green marks the frame. I also had plans to move everything upwards as well since there wouldn’t be enough space for the possible reflection.