4 layer paper cut portrait

[tripperfunster]

I went fairly simple on this one, to dip my toe in the water, so to speak. And because I"m awesome, I took some Wip shots! It's so funny how this medium is like … nothing … nothing …OMG I TOTALLY SEE IT!

For paper, I went to Micheals and bought these 12x12 scrapbooking sheets. They were on sale 3 for a buck, so I went to town and spent FOUR WHOLE DOLLARS! And now I need to go back and buy more, because I want a larger range of colour. I could totally be an art-supplies hoarder. Someone call A&E!


Instead of white as the base layer, I used beige.



The black really makes it pop, eh? Please note that inside my china/curio cabinet you see no china. But if you look closely, you can see Sulu, Iron Man and Thor. Not pictured are Megamind, Doofenshmirtz and Bender. ;)
And here he is with a shitty photoshopped background. Thanks for looking!

Comments

[zsomeone.livejournal.com]

Link is not there, but I'm curious.

Yeah posterboard's a pain in the ass, but I used to do a lot of black marker art and that will make most paper warp so I used posterboard so that's what I always had around. Mostly that was just slicing out specific rectangles for the pic I was doing though, straight cuts with a ruler.

I keep trying to motivate myself to make stuff again (even did gishwhes this year) but it's hard.
Me to brain- You have all this crap to make stuff out of, make something!
Brain- Meh.

It comes and goes.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

What did you think of Gishwhes? How did your team do?

Link is here: http://www.dudecraft.com/2009/11/papercut-portraits-tutorial.html Sorry about that! I do the same with emails, talk about the attachment, and then forget to put it in!

[zsomeone.livejournal.com]

That's a cool vid! I learned lots, I had no idea how it was actually done.

(Switching to pm to answer the rest, hope you don't mind)