Pre­sent­ing Mon­key­Butts, a custom job I did for Dolly’ Oblong’s bril­liant Paper Totem! series. When I can (ie: have the time…deadlines, dead­lines), I love col­lab­o­rat­ing on other artist’s tem­plates and Dolly’s design was just too good to pass up! You can down­load the pdf’s here and while your on Dolly’s site, check out her awe­some plushies as well as her paper­toys. Also, check out the recent inter­view she gave to the Shiny Squirrel.

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Tags: character design, mckibillo, papercraft

In honor of the release of the Urban Paper book, Jack “Hor­ror­wood” Han­k­ins invited me to col­lab­o­rate on a custom design for his “Call­ing All Cars” series. The result is these 2 exclu­sive designs that can be down­loaded as a deluxe pdf set. Just click here to download.

To see more col­lab­o­ra­tions and spe­cial releases, be sure to hit up the Spe­cial Blends button on the left of my NaniBird site.

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On a whim, I entered “The Dears”, a paper­toy col­lab­o­ra­tion I did with Ben the Illus­tra­tor, into this year’s Amer­i­can Illus­tra­tion, and it got in(!?!). Onto the web­site, not the book itself, but still I’m quite pleased. Appar­ently (from the email they sent out), “it was one of only 583 images from a record-​breaking 8,100 submitted” to make the cut.

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If you’re going to be any­where near L.A. this Sat­ur­day, May 2nd then be sure to swing by the Mobius Gallery to check out the Urban Paper show, a paper­toy exhi­bi­tion and release party for Matt Hawkin’s amaz­ing “Urban Paper” book ( Amazon link ).

I’m really pleased to have been invited to par­tic­i­pate in both the book and the show. My con­tri­bu­tion to the book was a custom design I did (below) of my NaniBirds called NaniDad and the Peeps.

In fur­ther cel­e­bra­tion of the book release and show, I have 3 copies of the Urban Paper book I’d like to give away. But you’ll have to work a little for this one ^__^ …. I’m hoping to make Batch Four of NaniBirds released the best batch ever. So I’m hoping the offer of a free book will get your knives and glue sticks out.

Using a com­plex algo­rithm of date sub­mit­ted times com­plex­ity of design squared by what I ate that day divided by my mood and employ­ing the com­pletely unde­mo­c­ra­tic method of what I like best, I’ll send three lucky design­ers a copy of the book.

So if you’re in the L.A. area this week­end, be sure to check out the show at Mobius and if you’d like a free copy of the Urban Paper book, get out your knives and glue and send me your birdies! Check out my NaniBird site for more info and to get a blank NaniBird tem­plate: http://​www.​nanibird.com

Let’s get hatch­ing!
 Josh

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Here’s a few pieces I did for Women’s Health mag­a­zine on how to deal with var­i­ous bad sit­u­a­tions. I really had fun doing these. I par­tic­u­larly liked play­ing with the new AI blob brush on the dog’s head… very fluid and a great addi­tion to the toolset.

I’m think­ing that dog’s head would make a pretty cool t-shirt.

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