Alrighty folks! Kelly Lynn Jones (Little Paper Planes) and Chronicle Books teamed up to create a really cool book, Little Paper Planes: How I Reinvented the Childhood Classic, which features tons of really great artists (below) which we're giving away today for FREE. Leave a comment below and I'll choose one the next day randomly. (Using 1d20 or 2d10's that's dice for all you non-nerds haha). Also check out the next artist to talk about their work on the Little Paper Planes blog tour, Josh Cochran.
Alyson Fox
Jen Renninger
Julia Rothman
Elisabeth Dunker
Ryan Berkley
Josh Conhran
Ashkahn Shahparnia
Wolfie & The Sneak
Kate Bingaman-Burt
Michael C. Hsiung
Christine Tillman
Christopher David Ryan
Hernan Paganini
Johnathan Ryan Storm
Brendan Monroe
Ashley Goldberg & Drew Bell
Alexis Anne Mackenzie
Lisa Congdon
Gemma Correll
Russell Leng
Kelly Lynn Jones
Each artists got to come up with their own paper plane, but the best part was that we could re-imagine it anyway we wanted. I decided on bringing some of my weird mythological hawk bird men to life! After drafting up a couple ideas, I came up with something that was a mixture between a cut out doll and a paper airplane.
As you can see, I'm sort of into accessories and fantasy type / Dungeons & Dragons type of stuff, so I added a short handled battle axe and an eye patch. He may look really round and cute, but trust me he'd gut you in a second. We also had to create some step by step on the construction and as you'll tell from the book, I had a bit of fun with that with phrases like hot bod and so forth. Haha.
Here's the completed photograph of Hawk Bird Man hanging out on my money tree (it died which is kind of a bad sign for me haha). He looks very menacing to me and helps to keep aphids out.
Anyhow, make sure you leave a comment below and I'm going to randomly roll two 10sided dice to determine who wins. . .that's based on a 100 comments, so I'm sure I'll be using a 4 sided dice? Pretty good odds for a free book.
Once you get the book, you're gonna really trip out on all the great designs by the other artists!!! I mean seriously there are some really amazing ones in there. The book retails for $14.96 but why buy one, when you can get one for FREE only today!
Here's a preview of some of the other pages too:
