Paper-cut dragon patterns and the latest 2012 Year of the Dragon paper-cut tutorials
Seeing the image of the dragon in the Year of the Dragon paper-cut patterns, many people will wonder where the dragon came from, and why this non-realistic fetish has become a common element in paper-cut creations. Woolen cloth. "Dragon is a mythical creature created by ancient Chinese people who vaguely combined snakes, fish, crocodiles, pigs, horses, deer and other animals with natural celestial phenomena such as clouds, thunder and lightning, and hauni. The ancestors regarded real creatures and nature as Based on the celestial phenomena, ones own doubts, understanding, imagination, fear, worship, etc. about the world outside the body are penetrated, invested, and reflected into the dragons fuzzy integration. Obviously, the dragons fuzzy integration is a kind of pluralism. Tolerance." Its formation process is a process that "comes from life but is higher than life", in which the mythological conjecture, religious experience, aesthetic pleasure and artistic taste of the ancients are permeated and infused. The process of dragons inclusion is vague. This "ambiguity" is not only reflected in the plurality of inclusion objects, but also in the diversity of materials used, and also in the fact that the inclusion results and inclusion objects can be interchangeable under certain conditions. This is why people call the combined gods dragons, and sometimes they call snakes dragon, crocodile dragon, fish dragon, scorpion dragon, pigs, horses, cows, deer and other animals. dragon reason.
The images of paper-cut dragons are not completely homogeneous. Many images of paper-cut dragons are quite abstract. For example, in this Year of the Dragon paper-cut pattern, the entire paper-cut dragon has been abstractly simplified, especially the limbs of the dragon. In terms of the scale pattern on the dragons body, the head of the paper-cut dragon is very similar to some original folk paper-cut dragons. We try to use a flat surface to show a three-dimensional effect. The common auspicious cloud elements here play a completely auxiliary role. That is to connect the entire paper-cut pattern into a complete body.
1. Preparation work before paper-cutting. This paper-cutting tutorial is relatively simple, so you can directly prepare a single piece of colored paper for cutting, and you can cut directly according to the tracing without using other paper.
2. Tracing. For paper-cut makers with good paper-cutting skills, you can skip the tracing process in this tutorial and cut directly. And if neededWhen tracing, it is also recommended to use hand-drawn tracing to increase your own painting ability.
3. Paper cutting and engraving. For this paper-cut tutorial, special attention should be paid to the fact that although the lines of the paper-cut dragon are relatively simple, they are relatively smooth, so you still need some patience to cut out the effects shown in the illustration, especially the ability to rotate the paper needs to be strengthened. Everything else is relatively simple, so I won’t go into details.
