Auspicious and wishful paper-cut snake pattern and Year of the Snake paper-cut tutorial
Good luck and good fortune are includedPaper cutting in the Year of the SnakeA timeless classic theme used in many paper-cut productions including. However, how to express the meaning of good luck and good wishes, especially in combination with the style of the paper-cut snake itself, is a challenge facing paper-cut artists. When many paper-cutting artists create paper-cuttings, they will visualize words such as good luck and good fortune or directly use some common symbolic elements in folk culture to represent them. This kind of operation is indeed good and can have a good decorative effect. However, sometimes if people only have a short time to appreciate paper-cutting, they may ignore the meaning of the paper-cutting in the Year of the Snake.
Here, this Year of the SnakePaper cuttingThe pattern design is relatively straightforward. It presents the main meaning that needs to be expressed concisely and clearly. We can see that it not only has a paper-cut snake that is quite satisfactory in design, but also has four words of auspiciousness and good fortune directly cut on both sides. In order to perfectly integrate the four words "good luck and good fortune" with the paper-cut snake, a structure of flowers and plants was added to both sides of the paper-cut snake. The structure of the flowers and plants itself plays the role of the skeleton. Through the support of this skeleton, the four words "auspiciousness and good luck" and the paper-cut snake in the middle are better integrated together, thus forming such a very beautiful paper-cut pattern for the Year of the Snake.
So how should we make such a Year of the Snake paper-cut with extremely complex flower and grass structures so that it can perform better:
1. Prepare the basic materials for making this auspicious and wishful Snake paper-cut. Paper-cutting in the Year of the Snake is often used as window grilles, so the paper quality can be better than the paper used for daily practice. For example, light transmittance and toughness are issues that need to be considered. Nowadays, specially processed bamboo pulp paper is also better. Good paper can also be used, but in terms of color, it is best to use red.
2. Trace the paper-cut snakes and other patterns. There are two techniques that should be used when tracing. One of them is the outline drawing method, which is to use the basic drawing of ordinary outlines to reveal the outlines of the paper-cut snake and the entire paper-cut. Then there is the line drawing method. Since in this paper-cut pattern, we can see that the flowers, plants and text on the left and right sides are composed of basic lines, so when drawing, the existence of these lines should be fully considered and outlined with white lines. Just draw these flowers, plants and text with lines.
3. Auspicious Year of the SnakePaper-cut tutorial specific operations. In making such a paper-cut for the Year of the Snake, after completing the outline tracing, we can first use scissors to display the large outline of the entire paper-cut pattern. However, we should not continue to cut from the outside to the inside, but should cut from the inside to the outside. The specific operation is to first cut out the inner outline of the paper-cut snake, and then Continuously expanding to the periphery, this method is more suitable for this paper-cut production.
