Paperquill Fail

[tripperfunster]

Hee! I tried my hand at paper quilling and …. well, it's not a loss if I learned something, right? I am AMAZED at how frickin' time consuming it was! Took FOREVA! And sadly, looks cool and creepy, but nothing like I had planned.


It's supposed to be Robert Downey Jr, but it looks more like Chuck from Supernatural.

Things I learned:
I need paper that is more diversely coloured. The black and brown are too close to make it look good.
Red paper as a background = not good.
Moar practice. Lots moar.

Comments

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the letters done this way.

I don't think pointillism worked well for the eyes. The tight curled teardrop shapes might have been better for the eye whites and the iris as a quilled circle with a smaller darker circle inside, white glint- a tiny teardrop quill.

Teeth should have squared corners? *shrugs*


An art teacher had her students use the cores of toilet paper and paper towell rolls to do something like this. They cut the cores into different height tubes then flattened them into various oval and formed into other shapes. They were glued like in quilling and painted on the paper tubes and backgrounds. Some of them were gorgeous. All of them, that were finished, were interesting. Good recycle art.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Yeah … it's kind of nice when you have no where to go but up! :D

I still think it looks cool, but it just didn't get across what I was going for. Onwards and upwards!

Those paper towel arts sound neat!