Cheese Trap

For our first paper assignment, I created a scene of a cat trying to catch a mouse through a piece of Swiss cheese.

First Iteration:
Initially I used pencil to draw all of the details on the cat and mouse, although the cheese holes were actually cut out. I also played around with the positioning of the mouse and the direction it was running towards. Ultimately it ended up being best for the mouse to face to the right, as left-to-right motion seems to be more accentuated even if the off side layer didn’t result in as much movement.

Process:
Some visuals of the process.

Second Iteration:
In the second version, I followed Simon’s advice in terms of focusing solely on the paper as the medium. I carved out all of the details on the mouse and the cat’s face and used the paper itself to accentuate these elements. This method worked out really well on the cat, but the features on the mouse do seem to get lost a bit due to all of the white on white.