The practice of butterfly manual paper-cutting

Paper-cutting, also called paper carving, is one of the oldest folk arts in China, and its history can be traced back to the 6th century. Window cut or paper cut. The difference is that when creating, some use scissors and some use carving knives. Although the tools are different, the artistic works created are basically the same, which is collectively called paper-cutting. Paper-cutting is a kind of hollow art, which gives people a sense of emptiness and artistic enjoyment visually. Its carrier can be paper, gold foil, silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather and other sheet materials.

Butterfly paper cutting

The final butterfly paper-cutting is a bit complicated. Today, let's learn a simple butterfly painting method.

Let's review the previous content first.

Paper-cutting steps

This butterfly paper-cut work, the original design is simple and easy to draw. Generally, there are three ways to draw the butterfly paper-cut manuscript:

(1) Draw by yourself: A relatively simple pattern can be drawn slowly after several modifications, and practice makes perfect.

(2) Copying painting method: choose a favorite butterfly paper-cut, copy it with sulfuric acid paper, nail it with stapler and rice paper, and then cut it off.

(3) Print patterns: search out your favorite patterns of butterfly paper-cut manuscripts, and then print them out with a printer. Steps are the same as above. After being nailed together with rice paper, the patterns are cut and carved.

Next, look at the specific paper-cutting steps of butterflies:

1. Draw the outline of the butterfly first.

2. Design the internal pattern of butterfly wings.

3. Cut the shape first, and then cut the internal details.

4. The way half a butterfly was cut.

5. Expand the renderings.

Have you learned how to cut butterfly paper?