Paper Cutout

The style

A layered, tactile illustration style built on flat, distinctly bounded shapes stacked with slight offset to suggest physical depth, crisp, clean-edged silhouette construction replacing any drawn linework, subtle drop-shadow separation between overlapping layers giving the composition a handcrafted dimensionality, a confident, graphic simplicity that favors bold shape over rendered detail, and a charming, tangible craft-quality that feels playful, dimensional, and unmistakably paper-built. Influenced by: paper-cutout collage tradition, stop-motion cutout-animation technique, layered-paper illustration practice, handcrafted collage-art method.

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