Winter Wedding Table Cards

I've been having so much fun developing these animal couple characters for each table card. It's been both fun and a challenge to work out how the animals could interact for their size, shape and literally composition space.

 

Once again, the same foliage formation has been carried over from the menu, as it will be displayed on the back of each of these table cards. I therefore wanted a seamless flow from one side of the image to the other. 

Vulpes

Final Piece

It has just been my friends birthday, and I thought it the perfect opportunity to have a first go at paper cutting, which is a technique I have been admiring for a while now. 

I first created the design in photoshop, and then went ahead on paper.

Sketching out the initial design in Photoshop

Fully cut out frame

Why make a first attempt at something easy? This did take me two days to fully cut out, but my exacto knife was so good. I drew the pattern out onto the paper, and then cut away from the lines so that the detail would be on the paper. I then just turned the patter over, so that the pencil lines would be left underneath.

Piecing together the fox

With various pieces of paper cutting I have been studying, illustrators have used a combination of layering paper simply on top of each other, but also have sections where the paper will be slightly manipulated to create a more 3D effect. I haven't really been able to find any tutorials for this, so I went ahead and played around with a few of the pieces from the forefront of the fox - like the legs and the snout, and then also the features like the ears and tail that would perhaps have more movement in them.

To make sure that I would still able to stick the pieces down, I used a combination of sticky pads used in layering artwork, and layered cardboard pieces, so that they would still have strength onto the base card.

Frame Detail

Mediums used: Drawing tablet in photoshop for the initial sketch. & exacto knife and scissors for the paper cutting.