![]() Eric Joisel is one modern origami artist that creates incredibly complex paper sculptures using blueprints that take him literally years to complete. There’s a simple difference between mere papercraft and origami: the traditional concept of origami uses only once piece of paper with no cuts or glue. Eric Joisel – Detailed Classic Monster Figures Skip to the 49 second mark on the video to see his papercraft heart in action. The pieces fit together like gears, and actually turn for a kinetic effect that goes far beyond most papercraft creations. Haruki Nakamura’s papercraft does more than just sit there and look pretty. Haruki Nakamura – Moving Parts Paper Sculptures Simons says having his clones around helped him “get used to his bald spot”. ![]() He uses a computer program to flatten out the head into printable pieces of paper and then assembles them with glue. So, Simons decided to ‘clone himself’, sculpting his head in 3D and using photographs to texture it. They’re photo-realistic replicas of Rotterdam papercraft artist Burt Simons and his friends, created when Simons had a ‘mid-life crisis’ in 2006 and realized there wasn’t much of him that would be left behind. Master paper sculptors like Richard Sweeney, Brian Dettmer and Ingrid Siliakus cut, fold, glue and otherwise transform sheets of paper in various colors, sizes and textures into complex creations that mimic architecture, nature, the human form and subjects that are purely the products of their own fertile imaginations.īert Simons – Incredibly Lifelike Portrait SculpturesĮerie, faceted 3-D paper heads float on a wall like grotesque hunting trophies. ![]() Paper isn’t the first medium most people think of when they imagine sculpture, but it has qualities that help papercraft artists create some of the most incredibly intricate 3D art ever seen. ![]()
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