A Study in Paper #5: Sherlock & John

[ldhenson]

I actually did this one a while back, completely misplaced it (the boys were hastily stashed away when I had company over), and now have found it again.

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[ldhenson]

Thanks so much!

[ldhenson]

Thank you very much! They lend themselves very well to silhouettes, these two.

[karadin]

I like I very much like!

Although John's right hand reads a little strange, as it's a larger negative space than any other cuts on his shape.

[ldhenson]

Thank you!

As for the negative space, I agree, good eye. In fact that was the bit I waffled most on when designing this. Were I go do it again today, now that I have another month's worth of cutting practice under my belt, I know just how I'd improve it. Well, that'll be for some future project...

[karadin]

The important thing, you can tell who they are at a glance! I wonder if these would work as cards? You should send them to the actors.

[ldhenson]

Cards is such a cool idea. It wouldn't work as-is, the paper's too flimsy, but done with cardstock (which I use for my recent paper cuttings/models) with some extra bits to make it stable...I actually have another similar cutting planned that will hopefully stand up by itself so we'll see if that works out!

[lady_t_220]

That... is frickin' cool.

Oddly enough, despite the fact that it's kind of deceptively simple, I think this is my favourite of all the ones you've done so far. Has a very bold, clean finish. I like it a lot.

[ldhenson]

Well thank you. My cuttings were getting progressively more detailed and for this one I deliberately went the other direction, just to see what could be done with it. I'm glad you like it!

[shouldboverthis]

I really like all of your work!

[ldhenson]

Thanks very much!