FUN WITH PAPER CUTS AND TEXTURE

1. Intro: Through the years drawing and writing has been serving me as a tool for self-discovery, self-expression, and even inner cure. That is what keeps me moving on. Those little fun moments that I have for myself when writing or drawing. Hi, my name is Lia Delgado and I'm a graphic designer, based in Lisbon, Portugal. In this class, I will share one of my writings that will illustrate, mixing my favorite media If your goal is to illustrate your own text or composition through your own imagination. I will demonstrate my method and hope follow. If you just want to experiment with paper cuts and have some fun, I will provide some text and drawings that you can then download into the resources area. I hope that this class will incentive you to illustrate with an accessible technique through which you can achieve Expressive results. You will end. with a expressive art piece. Hope you enjoyed the class. Thank you. 2. Materials: Hi, glad you could join me. In this lesson. We are going to see the materials we are going to work with. Here are the materials we are going to use in the class. To do the sketching and drawings Paper and a pencil will do the trick. Tracing paper. Paper for cut, cardboard or scrapping paper, scissors art knife and some glue. To the coloring part, We will use liquid watercolor. In a spray Bottle Whatercolor pencils and acrylics with a sponge 3. Sketching and drawing: Hi, welcome back. In this first part we will sketch and draw. The text could be yours, but put it in front of you. And really start by understanding it, Take notes, underline it. You need to isolate the ideia You're going to pass to the drawing. First we will have read the text and withhold the elements that are more important. Give yourself time and paper and start to draw. Second on a smaller piece of paper. You will sketch the first ideas. You will sketch several of them. I'm a big fan of tracing paper because it gives you the chance To redraw our conserve on your liking. So I will use it from the very beginning, starting with my sketches. Third, you will choose one of your sketches to draw on a larger piece of paper. During this process, keeping the mind, That's it gets elements must have enough area to paint or draw. And also that you want to have additional layers for shadow effects, to give Some dimension to drawing or even to paint a detailed. Fourth and last, we are going to trace each element, or layer, into a new clean piece of tracing paper. Thank you, See you in the next lesson. 4. Cutting: Hi, welcome back. In this lesson, we are going to cut the element. First of all, we are going to pass each layer to a new, a piece of paper. So we trace the reverse side of the drawing. Keep in mind that some objects have several layers. After transferring the drawing, it's time to start to cut each one of the elements. Sometimes you have to cut several times the same element and using white cardboard but sometimes its nice to use scrapbooking paper in some of the layers, like in this example. You are also allowed to use scissors, if the object like in this case, is big enough. next, we are going to color the objects. See you. 5. Coloring: Now let's begin with fun part. Let's color our layers. Hi, welcome back. In this lesson, we will bring our elements to life by coloring them. First step, is to prepare my inks. I will mix to the water colors alcohol I will start with the background image. with the mask, using spray inks, I will work Layer by layer, until I cover the whole background. I'll spray each one of the elements. With the use of the sprays, I will try to likely bring the notions of light and shadow. After that, I will use colored watercolor pencils to colored areas I want. In this case, I will paint only the face of the. cat in the rest of the elements. I will use acrylic paint, with a sponge the use of stencils and masks, are a choice. But they will bring nice details and dimension to the drawing. the important elements your painting have. detail and expression, the mask was made by hand, and the stencil using the cutting machine. We have our main layers painted, our elements glued. Now we're going to scan for later compose on the computer. 6. Final: Hello, I hope you have enjoyed this class. Next steps would be to scan your drawing and compose your final images. To scan. You will use a scanner or your phone within appropriate App. To do the composition. I will advise you to use Photoshop, Affinity Photo or the Open Source alternative Gimp. I would love to see results you have achieved and what techniques you have used. So please, I would ask you to upload your sketches and your final composition to the projects area. Feel free to the creative and have lots of fun along the way. Thank you and bye for now.