Hi Everyone

I had the urge to try and make some of my illustrations into 3D cut out, went browsing and discovered this site. It's good to see that there are so many artists working on this stuff.
I found quite a few very strange people making mathematical paper sculptures that seemed very strange to me so it was nice to find some people who were actually creatives.
I've spent a few days coming up with designs and learning how to make them into feasible plans to be cut out and manged to bring my first technical peice into fruition. I'll post photos when I have them.
I've been making the plans in illustrator and then touching them up in photo shop but illustrating the faces in painter. Is this a common approach?
I've been using illustrator for the first time on these projects, took me a while to work out how to even make a triangle LOL.
I'd be very happy to do illustration on other peoples blank plans if they have them and will share my own. After buying a copy of Urban Paper I'm very excited about the direction that this can lead my art into. My work is very comic orientated and I've exhibited in gallerys and work from an art studio at Middlesbrough train station in the Uk, Platform Arts LTD. The other artists there have been encouraging me to turn some of my designs into 3D sculptures so this is my first step. My designs tend to be based on historical sculpture, they tend to look quite Aztec, Inca or something like that, and tend to have hieroglyphs of sorts on them. I'll post soem images.
My partners mother tends to do a lot of things like decopage, so I've been doing some occasional work using that technique, this may be something that I might bring into my designs at a later date. I think it might be quite interesting to build images up on the faces using decopage, it may not work but we will see as an experiment.
thanks to all who read this and take an interest in my work
John