Finally Posting! Paper Child Artwork

   Hello! It's Shiny! If you saw the post I made earlier, sort of a spam post of links for myself, you probably won't care will be happy to find out that I actually found a use for them! I said in that post that I was doing some research on the paper child art form... Which I was! I don't lie! So here's that post on how to make a paper child that I promised (did I?) to write... On the left, you can see two really nice examples of paper child art. The first one is by a well-known paper child artist who goes by the username "Pimmy" and the other is by some unknown net person who was (un)lucky enough to get their stuff featured on fanpop. I seriously love Pimmy's work, it's adorable. I hope that they can make a worthwhile tutorial on how they come up with random characters. But anyway, I'll now tell you about the things you look for in a paper child:

1)A cute character. This is like, the most important one. Your character should be extremely cute, or seriously cool but still cute, but it should not be scary, and definitely not purposefully ugly either.

2)An interaction. The other most important thing, which can make or break a picture, is the interaction. Pimmy's work shows excellent interactions, which is why they're featured here. The easiest one to create is shown to the left, where your character is dangling by a shirt/jacket/skirt/tail/anything that is being held by you, the artist. 

3) Good shading/ a nice color scheme. Although the majority of paper children are monochrome, like a manga drawing, you can also do a colored one. I'd recommend coloring yours with either any type of colored pencils or Prismacolor or COPIC sketch markers.
4) The camera angle being perfect. If your camera angle for the picture isn't perfect, like if the character looks obviously cut out/drawn/actually fake because it's slanted. You have to keep your paper child and your camera at the same angle!
3) A thin white edge. Don't ask me why, just do it. They always look better with one.

-Shiny

PS: BONUS GIF!

Homestuck and Baby Alpacas

Hello, Shiny here again! I've come to announce that I've finally started being part of the Homestuck fandom. It's a pretty good webcomic/game (not sure what to call it exactly). I like the characters, and I have to admit Rose is pre-tty cool; she can youth-roll out a door. Except that she has an encounter with her mother and has to retreat. John, the first character we meet, is also cool, considering his neighborhood gets hit by a meteor and he gets teleported into an empty black space by sburb (the video game he receives on his birthday). Rose helps him battle the imps and he suddenly has to prevent the... apocalypse? You'd have to read/play it. Dave and Jade are awesome too~!

 It's all at mspaintadventures.com.

 Well, that aside, I'd like to help you learn how to get your own baby alpaca figurines. They're fun to keep around and also fun to draw, like I did over there in the third (bottom) picture. I named mine Arupaca, the Japanese pronunciation of the word alpaca.

 I got my adorable baby alpaca figurine at Hobby Lobby. It was just five dollars! It's so cute! It's super realistic, too. The cameroid picture doesn't really do it justice though. Also, the pictures are reversed, so my little baby alpaca doesn't really look totally like that.

Once you get one, it'd probably be fun to make a mold of it like I am hopefully going to end up doing... And make an army of neon alpacas. If anyone can't find alpaca baby figurines at their local hobby lobby, I'll be pretty tempted to sell neon alpacas with cutie marks and bows on etsy. No, really.

-Shiny