Paper Sculpture for Set Design
Crafting My Animals
A course by Sarah Louise Matthews , Paper Engineer
Joined April 2021
About the video: Crafting My Animals
Overview
“On to the final element of my paper set design: the insects. I'll be showing you how to assemble them in this video.”
In this video lesson Sarah Louise Matthews addresses the topic: Crafting My Animals, 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
“Crafting My Animals Now I'll be crafting the final animals for my paper set design. We'll have two butterflies, two ladybirds and a bee. We've already seen how to make the ladybird in a previous lesson, but we need to attach it to the wire, so that it can be flying above the set. I'll start by getting a piece of cake-decorating wire. This is wrapped with white paper. When I take the photos at the final stage, it’ll be edited out. This is quite an easy colour to edit out against the pale background. I'll get my glue gun and put a small amount of glue on that end, and put my ladybird on a bit...”
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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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