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!