Paper Sculpture for Set Design
Using Illustrator and a Plotter 1
A course by Sarah Louise Matthews , Paper Engineer
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: Using Illustrator and a Plotter 1
Overview
“This is an optional lesson (but a valuable one!) where I will give you some tips for designing and organising your templates on Illustrator. We will start by seeing how to design flat shapes.”
In this video lesson Sarah Louise Matthews addresses the topic: Using Illustrator and a Plotter 1, 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
“Using Illustrator and a Plotter In this lesson, I’ll give you some tips for using Illustrator to draw your designs and templates and using a plotter to cut them out. When I started my journey into paper engineering, I was drawing and cutting everything by hand. After a few years, I decided to teach myself how to use Illustrator and invest in a plotter to do the cutting. I’ll teach you how I draw and organize my templates using Illustrator. It may look complicated at first, but I'll talk you through it and it's easy once you know how. To set up my Illustrator document, I'll start with an A4 ...”
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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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