#**miniatures

" figuring out how to “flatten” 3D objects so that I can make them out of paper" - did you just trial and error your way through that one, or did you have any resources that you used? bc i am coming to realise my spatial reasoning in that area is at negative values which is real awkward for someone who does 3d crafts and i have no idea what to do about it 🤯

I usually start with trial and error and then if I get REALLY stuck, I'll google a really basic (like... primary school) geometry tutorial for the biggest/flattest shape of the object I'm working with. Anything with circles is my biggest weakness because you just need to math circles and I hate it. I also do a lot of building objects upward instead of outward? Like, making a relief, rather than trying to build a hollow object, for me, is easier, because I can see layer by layer where the next pieces need to be adjusted. Apparently that’s not the ~traditional~ way to do things, but I really like dimensional papercraft lightboxes and stuff that use that technique, so, whatever.

From my ig --

The ~mystical cabinet~ on the left, I made with more traditional flat “carpentry” (or like, singular pieces, cut to size and scale, and then assembled... it’s wrinkly because I used the wrong type of sealant afterwards UGH).

But this decorative door and doorframe, I made as a relief (it’s 26 layers iirc at its thickest) and it turned out WAY better, especially in terms of being sure that everything was sized correctly because I could make adjustments as I went. The cabinet is squared off properly and everything, but it was a lot more stressful to make. The way that I put the door and the frame together “should” have been done with flat building, probably, but it works for what I want the way I did it, so I’m fine with it.