The six elements I choose are orange boxes, bricks, pipes, cubes, pyramids and water. At the hand-drawing stage, the tracing technique that we first learned in Module 1 played a big role in composing the world. Instead of drawing the repetitive elements again and again, the vantage of translucent tracing paper allows us to copy and paste from what we had already built. Moreover, since grouped parts were drawn on separate papers, just by flipping each paper and moving it around on the main A3 paper, I could quickly preview different combinations and get inspired. That was as fun as putting together Lego pieces.

As we were required to construct an axonometric Mario world, there would be no vanishing point, and the top of the pipes would be a perfect circle. Therefore, I cut all the pipes in halves to avoid using the shape of a complete circle. I placed the pyramid in center. Above it were layers of oranges slices interlacing each other and two halves of pipes facing each other in distance. Meanwhile, I left the upper space around the pyramid relatively empty to preserve the focus on the pyramid and make the world a little symmetrical vertically. I set the color tone lighter and more colorful than the two elevations given, attempting to reach a lively and fantasy feeling. Great effort was made on coloring and light and shadow to make the world look natural. The lower part of the world is covered by water, which occupied the inside and flows out from the breaches of the brick construction. And the arrows hidden in the water would also indicate to look down. I like the texture of the water because the color change it brings and what is inside have made the whole picture more interesting and mysterious. At the same time, the wide surface and smooth shape of water would create a contrast with the rugged shape of other elements.