Paper-cut figures: Opera character patterns and paper-cut tutorials
China is a big country of opera, and each place has its own culture of absorption. Therefore, if you want to portray the image of opera characters well in paper-cut works, you should first understand and be familiar with the costumes of the paper-cut opera characters you want to create. Only in this way can we be confident in depicting the corresponding paper-cut patterns, and at the same time we can avoid the embarrassment of being too pretentious. Generally, paper-cut opera characters have very distinctive characteristics, but in the process of focusing on depicting the characteristics, it is necessary to grasp the details. Only in this way can the paper-cut opera characters have both form and spirit.
1. Preparation: Take two pieces of colored paper and fold them twice to make each piece into four layers, or take eight pieces of colored paper and make two pieces.
2. Tracing: Pay attention to the dynamics of the characters and the pattern arrangement on the clothes.
3. Cutting: Paper-cutting of dramatic characters is a common theme in traditional paper-cutting. Various dynamics and various occupations of the characters on the dramatic stage can be found in traditional paper-cutting. This is consistent with peoples love for drama and this nation. Art is inseparable.
Paper-cut work "Peach Fan and Flower Lady"
When cutting the dynamics of drama characters, most of them are the appearance movements of the characters. To focus on capturing this specific expression, it is necessary to highlight the gentleness of women and the strength of men (such as the orchid of women in the paper-cut work "Peach Fan") The gestures of swaying, shoulders splaying and shuffling, as well as the common male strutting, reaching out and raising legs in the paper-cut work "Strong Military Attache". The headgear and costumes of drama characters are very complicated and cannot be copied faithfully. Just take the big dynamic, make bold choices and generalizations, and appropriately embellish flowers and plants or some crescent patterns, long and short zigzag patterns.
Paper-cut work "Strong Military Attache"
To express complex scenes in a drama, you can use objects or trees to connect several different scenes together, which not only maintains the continuity of the story development, but also prevents them from being mixed together and causing illusions. , sometimes one paper-cut expresses two scenes at the same time, and some
Three, four or more scenes are represented at the same time. Some have the same content and are combined with several paper-cuts to complement each other, and some have different content to set off each other.
