Paper Child: A New Art
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Paper Child is a new, strange and almost inexplainable phenomen. Probably grown out of the miniaturisation fetish, it involves humans interacting with smaller, childlike paper cutouts to create interesting photo opportunities. It’s existence and popularity has been spread through artistic sharing sites like deviantart.com. There you can find many paper child artists of various degrees of skills.
Grown out of anime/manga culture, paper children first became popular in Japan and Korea. They can look like just about anything. But most are small, humanlike figures. Surreal and mesmerizing, some are sweet, some are created for pornographic purposes, some are drawn pictures of popular anime/cultural characters.
To create a paper child, first you must draw a person that’s about the size of your hand. Try to use heavier paper as your average printer paper probably wont be thick enough. The key is to draw a creature in some kind of motion. A common paper child trick is to draw a character that looks like they are being lifted up by a giant crane.
Once you’ve finished drawing, the next step is to carefully cut it out and possibly colour it. Then its simply a matter of setting up your paper children in a particular pose and then take a photo.
How to make a paper child video
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This tickled my funny bone and imagination, I'd heard of it, but never really knew exactly what it was. Very informative and entertaining hub!
Yeah, aren't they? They're kind of like an optical illusion. Definitely something I hadn't seen before.
Freeze, in your own words, these are surreal and mesmerizing! Your hubs never cease to amaze me!
Freeze, this is cool stuff!
Very cool....good art work! :)
Awesome! This is so cool.
GLORIOUS!
Wow, really, really awesome, thanks!
Those are really great!
Wow that is so incredible. Im always looking for new forms of art and this would be so great to do.
and of course, paperchilds are tend to be used for perverted senses..
hey i am making a book right lol i am going to be making paper children:D they are really fun and can make you fell like you have adopted a anime friend :DD
so cute and helpfull!
I'm gonna make some!!
i felt very inspirered! sadly i'm rubbish at drawing!
when i see my best frend charloote draw (up there! she wrote 4 days ago from now) haaaaaa!
what a creative imagination!
a fun hub =)
haha beautiful cartoons and thanks for such nice hub teaching in details how to make them. Very useful info and hub
Now I wanna make one.
gerizekeriya dicemde yani day?m dar?lcak
:D
I am making some right now, but I'm horrible at drawing.
>.< I fail epically!
Paper children are so much fun. But why'd you have to pick all the pervy ones? That's, like, 5% of paper child crafters... ^^;;;
My paper children are all made in good clean fun!
I love them but how can you cut so close and not damage it?
lol i am totes gonna attempt to make some of these!!
Heehee most of the paper childs are angry XD
I noticed a recurring them of slightly paternalistic domination...
Teresa McGurk 3 years ago
These are fascinating, funny, and very clever. Ka-wai-iiiiii desu