Advanced Papercraft Techniques: Designing with Paper

How to cut and paste

A course by Diana Beltran Herrera , Industrial Designer

99% positive reviews (339)

7,900 students

Audio: Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese

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About the video: How to cut and paste

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you the different ways to trace and cut a piece. Also how to apply the glue especially on very small elements. ”

In this video lesson Diana Beltran Herrera addresses the topic: How to cut and paste, which is part of the Domestika online course: Advanced Papercraft Techniques: Designing with Paper. Explore the possibilities of paper by transforming designs into volumetric shapes.

Partial transcription of the video

“[Music] Well, in this lesson I am going to explain to you how are we going to cut and paste the elements that later are we going to develop in our project? Once we have designed our main subject what is the goldfinch and I have done our design for our cover now it's important that we begin to relate with our materials. Basic advice that I am going to give you at first they are; don't have anything in your hands. If you have a shirt or a rolled up sack so that you don't have that things get tangled or difficult for you. If you are a girl or do you have long hair then tie it because if you ar...”

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Course summary for: Advanced Papercraft Techniques: Designing with Paper

Level: Intermediate
99% positive reviews (339)
7900 students
5 units
19 lessons (3h 29m)
11 downloads

Category
Craft
Areas
Arts & Crafts, Design, Paper Craft, Sculpture, Traditional illustration

Diana Beltran Herrera

A course by Diana Beltran Herrera

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Industrial Designer

After graduating as an industrial designer from the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Diana decided to explore design from a more experimental perspective, studying the different qualities of cheap and ordinary materials such as paper and cardboard and developing simple ways to transform them and give them a new value and use.

Nature and animals are very present in Diana Beltrán's work, which she explores endlessly through papercraft.

Her work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States, where she has participated in group and solo shows. She has also worked for international clients in editorial design, advertising, window dressing, events, and interior design projects, working for 215 McCann, Olivari Olive Oil, Volevatch, Longwood Gardens US, ENI, Marina Rinaldi, Lebeau-Courally, James Cropper UK, Hodder and Stoughton UK, Horse Mag, On investing magazine, the Libertine Lindenberg Hotel, Restaurant Auberge de l'Ill, Mercedes Salazar, and UH Hospitals USA.