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Japanese Artist Fills In Their Anime-Inspired Cutouts With Their Surroundings (100 Pics)
This Japanese artist creates paper cutouts that they then fill in using landscapes and the environment around them. The artist named Kotetsu especially enjoys nature backgrounds, but we can also see many architectural designs. Kotetsu's characters are anime-inspired and they come to life and are filled with color by the many backgrounds the artist uses for them. Pencils or pens would probably not be able to imitate that.
What do you think of this idea? What about the art itself? Tell us in the comments and don't forget to upvote your favorite artwork! And go show some love to Kotetsu on their social media.
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La Petite Morte 3 years ago (edited)
This one is absolutely gorgeous! I love how she's playing around with a 2-D image and tricking the eye into reading it as 3-D. And how delicate some of those cuts are!
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Logic and Reason 3 years ago
It looks like for whatever reason they photoshopped their hand into the picture, as seen by the blurry outline around their hand. They might have photoshopped the drawing over the background as well.
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La Petite Morte 3 years ago
I love how her feet are blurred to make them look like they're under water. That's amazing and is such a tiny detail that adds to the overall feel of the kirigami.
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La Petite Morte 3 years ago
It's really hard to see the cut out areas in this one. It just looks like a painted/drawn picture.
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Sarcastic Panda 3 years ago
i love these... but how did they cut them out so intricately? if I tried I'd probably murder myself
La Petite Morte 3 years ago
It's called kirigami, the art of paper cutting. It's evolved to be just as intricate and detailed as origami can be. Using negative space (the cut out areas), combined with pen and ink art can produce some amazingly stunning results. You use exacto blades and really really tiny art scissors to make the cuts. There are some amazing artists all over the world that use this as their medium.
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(っ◔◡◔)っ im a domestic weeb 3 years ago
ah your artwork is so good id love to see more espically your cutouts good job
Exotic Panda 3 years ago
all of these are really pretty, and amazing! but two of them are either photoshop, or they just photoshopped out the hand/fingers so it wouldn't ruin the pic Screenshot...d4-png.jpg 
Logic and Reason 3 years ago
Actually in your example they photoshopped their hand into the image, not vice versa. I think they also used photoshop to put the cutout over that background.
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Ryan James Petersen 3 years ago
I gave up on trying to figure out if he drew the dresses or if its just blank
Sarcastic Panda 3 years ago
i love these... but how did they cut them out so intricately? if I tried I'd probably murder myself
La Petite Morte 3 years ago
It's called kirigami, the art of paper cutting. It's evolved to be just as intricate and detailed as origami can be. Using negative space (the cut out areas), combined with pen and ink art can produce some amazingly stunning results. You use exacto blades and really really tiny art scissors to make the cuts. There are some amazing artists all over the world that use this as their medium.
Load More Replies... (っ◔◡◔)っ im a domestic weeb 3 years ago
ah your artwork is so good id love to see more espically your cutouts good job
Exotic Panda 3 years ago
all of these are really pretty, and amazing! but two of them are either photoshop, or they just photoshopped out the hand/fingers so it wouldn't ruin the pic Screenshot...d4-png.jpg
Logic and Reason 3 years ago
Actually in your example they photoshopped their hand into the image, not vice versa. I think they also used photoshop to put the cutout over that background.
Load More Replies... Ryan James Petersen 3 years ago
I gave up on trying to figure out if he drew the dresses or if its just blank
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