Paper Sculpture for Set Design
Decorative Details
A course by Sarah Louise Matthews , Paper Engineer
Joined April 2021
About the video: Decorative Details
Overview
“Now we will get a bit fancier, as I will teach you how to add some decorative detail to enhance your designs. For this, we will use different techniques, such as curving, embossing, shaping, and adding texture and layers.”
In this video lesson Sarah Louise Matthews addresses the topic: Decorative Details, which is part of the Domestika online course: Paper Sculpture for Set Design. Learn paper crafting techniques to create beautiful 3D illustrations and structures for a product photography set.
Partial transcription of the video
“Decorative Details In this lesson, we'll get a bit fancy as I teach you how to add some decorative details to your designs. I'll show you how to curve, emboss, shape and add textures and layers. By the end of this lesson, I’ll show you how to make this paper ladybird, as well as lots of other techniques. First, I'll show you how to emboss paper. To show this technique, I'll emboss one of the petals for my poppy flower. I’ll use an embossing tool with quite a small ball. To cut out the shape of the petal, use the previous techniques I showed. either using scissors or a scalpel, whichever you...”
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Course summary for: Paper Sculpture for Set Design
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Design, DIY, Paper Craft, Product Photography, Sculpture, Set Design, Traditional illustration

Sarah Louise Matthews
A course by Sarah Louise Matthews
Sarah Matthews is a paper engineer based in Yorkshire, England who has been making things out of paper for as long as she can remember. She went on to study textile surface design at university, but soon realized that her true passion lay in working with paper and so decided to specialize in it. After graduating she began selling her paper products on Etsy and sharing them on social media, where her work began attracting commissions.
Since then, she’s built a following of over 30K on Instagram and created paper window displays for brands including Ted Baker, Pandora, and Selfridges. She’s also written for Mollie Makes Magazine and published her own book, Paper Craft Home, in which she shares her expertise.
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