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]]>Her creative process is three-fold: hand drawing first, then digital rendering, and lastly, hand cutting. “Typically, I develop drawings before making a digital template on the computer,” she told Design Boom. “After completing the template, I print it out and use it as a positioning and visual guide. the template is largely photographic and I spend a lot of time translating continuous tones into patterns of solid and void. The final step is to spend lots of hours, hand cutting the image.”
But long before she was a paper magician, Lee took to other forms of art. Born in Hong Kong, she practiced Chinese calligraphy since the age of ten and went on to study painting and drawing in her formative years. With a BA degree in Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she came to the US in 1993 as a painter and went on to earn her first Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a second MFA in computer graphics and interactive media from the Pratt Institute in New York.
It was only in 2005 when she created her first cut paperwork. “After practicing digital arts for years, I began to miss creating with my hands,” she recalls. “I sought an expression to satisfy my creative impulses and combine my skills.”
Take a look at some of her artwork in the gallery below.
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]]>After that, it was greeting cards to family members and friends, and soon Fukuda found herself completely hooked. “When giving greeting cards to family members and friends, I discovered that it was not so easy to cut their cards and present them with motifs such as flower bouquets and girls’ profiles,” she said. But she tried and tried again – for the last 30 years to be exact.
Now, her delicate creations focus mainly on animals, specifically marine life and underwater creatures. “I have liked creepy and mysterious creatures as well as marine life from an early age,” she admits. “Among them, I especially liked deep-sea fish and jellyfish, and made them motifs in my work.”
Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries around Japan and elsewhere. But she has also amassed more than 70k followers on Instagram, which is no small feat by any measure. Here are some of her mind-boggling creations:
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]]>Her creative process is three-fold: hand drawing first, then digital rendering, and lastly, hand cutting. “Typically, I develop drawings before making a digital template on the computer,” she told Design Boom. “After completing the template, I print it out and use it as a positioning and visual guide. the template is largely photographic and I spend a lot of time translating continuous tones into patterns of solid and void. The final step is to spend lots of hours, hand cutting the image.”
But long before she was a paper magician, Lee took to other forms of art. Born in Hong Kong, she practiced Chinese calligraphy since the age of ten and went on to study painting and drawing in her formative years. With a BA degree in Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she came to the US in 1993 as a painter and went on to earn her first Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a second MFA in computer graphics and interactive media from the Pratt Institute in New York.
It was only in 2005 when she created her first cut paperwork. “After practicing digital arts for years, I began to miss creating with my hands,” she recalls. “I sought an expression to satisfy my creative impulses and combine my skills.”
Take a look at some of her artwork in the gallery below.
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]]>The post Masayo Fukuda Takes Papercutting to the Next Level appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>After that, it was greeting cards to family members and friends, and soon Fukuda found herself completely hooked. “When giving greeting cards to family members and friends, I discovered that it was not so easy to cut their cards and present them with motifs such as flower bouquets and girls’ profiles,” she said. But she tried and tried again – for the last 30 years to be exact.
Now, her delicate creations focus mainly on animals, specifically marine life and underwater creatures. “I have liked creepy and mysterious creatures as well as marine life from an early age,” she admits. “Among them, I especially liked deep-sea fish and jellyfish, and made them motifs in my work.”
Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries around Japan and elsewhere. But she has also amassed more than 70k followers on Instagram, which is no small feat by any measure. Here are some of her mind-boggling creations:
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