We had a cool assignment in #drawing class: (1) fold a big piece of paper such that there are clear shadows on the page; (2) 'fixate the shadows' by spraying paint on it; (3) wet the paper and let it dry under heavy weight to make it straight again; (4) draw fragments of architecture (& other things or people) on parts of the drawing.
I enjoyed it so much that I tried the assignment twice. (I also learned the Miura-ori fold in the process but didn't use it in my own design. #origami)
Smaller drawing more in line with the assignment. This was a piece of A4 printer paper that I initially used to test my folding and the effect of the spray paint. I added a black ink line drawing of the old postal building of Ghent to the largest facet and two details of the same building in smaller ones. I also drew three symbols related to email in the others, to make it a thematic whole: new vs old mail.
Detail of the previous drawing, focusing on one of the 2D parts: an Egyptian eye. It shows the metallic effect quite nicely.
Drawing of an Egyptian temple on a piece of back paper (a bit larger than A3). The original yellow painted part is on the right. It didn't cover much of my paper and unintentionally ended up looking like pyramids, so I turned the page, but stuck with the theme. I used metallic pencils to stand out on the black underground, and some yellow pastel crayon to get a similar effect as the paint. I didn't follow the assignment exactly: instead of drawing fragments of a building, I drew one scene (by reinterpreting the original folding lines as perspective lines, which gives the temple a slightly contorted look). I did add three 2D-looking details that aren't part of the 3D scene, though.