Paper Sculpture for Set Design

Making My Paper Foliage

A course by Sarah Louise Matthews , Paper Engineer

Paper Engineer. Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Joined April 2021
100% positive reviews (139)
3,962 students
Audio: English, Spanish
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About the video: Making My Paper Foliage

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll show you how to make some paper foliage for the greenery of the set. This will include making the paper gorse and finishing the paper leaves.”

In this video lesson Sarah Louise Matthews addresses the topic: Making My Paper Foliage, 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

“Making My Paper Foliage In this lesson, I'll make the paper gorse and finish the paper leaves for my final project to add greenery to my final design. Let's start with the gorse. I've cut the pieces using the plotter, but I'll show you how to cut it by hand as well. I'll start by drawing out the template. I’ll measure 2.5 cm along, add a few points on my paper. I'll join them together and draw another vertical line to be this line. 3 mm wide, so I'll measure 3 mm. I'll join those together. You need to draw all of these horizontal lines. I'll just draw a few to show you. Each one is about 2 ...”

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Course summary for: Paper Sculpture for Set Design

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (139)
  • 3962 students
  • 5 units
  • 22 lessons (4h 20m)
  • 17 downloads
  • Category

    Craft
  • Areas

    Arts & Crafts, Design, DIY, Paper Craft, Product Photography, Sculpture, Set Design, Traditional illustration

Sarah Louise Matthews

Sarah Louise Matthews
A course by Sarah Louise Matthews

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Paper Engineer

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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Paper Sculpture for Set Design. Craft course by Sarah Louise Matthews

Paper Sculpture for Set Design

A course by Sarah Louise Matthews
Paper Engineer. Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Joined April 2021
  • 100% positive reviews (139)
  • 3,962 students