a forest

[corvi]

 
The second-last of the tiny papercutting suggestions on 3x5 cards. A forest, as suggested by twoeleven Forests are hard, I eventually gave up and cheated by cutting two 3x5 cards worth of forest, and stacking them with some tracing paper. It is, of course, a douglas fir forest. I didn't spend years analyzing data on douglas fir branching patterns for nothing! Woo!

Comments

Cheat?

[dialecticdreamer]

How is that a cheat? Any more than using foam dots to raise the first panel above the mist and second panel would be? It's just a different effect!

Re: Cheat?

[corvi]

I feel like it was cheating, since I gave up on actually conveying a forest by cutting holes in a single index card. Cheating only against self-imposed expectations, I guess.

Also, that foam dots thing sounds like a good idea. Hm....

Re: Cheat?

[dialecticdreamer]

They're in the scrapbooking sections of most craft stores. The round dots are convenient, but buy the strip and cut your own rectangles about 1/4" wide, using an x-acto blade marked for the purpose, because the adhesive gets /everywhere/.

I use a plain box-cutter type with the break-off blades rather than my good X-acto knife.