I have long admired Nikki McClure’s paper cut illustrations. I first thought they were screen prints, but they are actually all cut by hand from a single sheet of black paper with an exacto knife. Pretty amazing when you think how intricate her illustrations are.

Along a similar line, although a very different style of illustration, the blog green bean baby has a great tutorial on creating your own paper cut illustration with multiple layers of paper.

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There is also a great flickr group where you can see some examples of people’s work. I especially like these ones from PinPal

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