Bert Simons  |  paper sculptures | Harry Hamelink (2007)
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Portrait of harry Hamelink, Rotterdam february 2007.

Because of his distinctive characteristics this paper model turned out very realistic. Also some techical improvements were made like switching to the open source cad program Blender. Update October 2007 My paper model of Harry has been featured in a book about 3d graphic art Tactile and Octobers 2007 edition of Bright magazine.


for Harry's portrait I used the 'dot per dot' refe... ....(read more)
the texture-mapping before being cut up more by hand
facial reconstruction. building a piece like this takes about 6 hours, cutting, folding and coloring the edges before glueing.
and another picture of the finished model