Paper Polar Bear

Stephen Savage is a good friend of mine and a fellow illustrator. He works in magazines and newspapers like I do, and also illustrated a very popular book called Polar Bear Night. He has a great, very geometric style, and I thought his polar bear would make a good paper model.

I designed this paper model on my computer today and printed it out on a piece of construction paper. I assembled it with scissors and double stick tape with the intention of giving it to Steve tonight at his birthday party. Unfortunately the birthday party was cancelled because everyone has the flu. So there is a chance Steve will see this thing in the blog here before he receives it in real life. Oh well. I realized (and this was not intentional) that if I give this to Steve as a gift, I will achieve a new personal low in intrinsic value of a gift given, as this bear's raw materials don't quite add up to two cents. Happy Birthday, Steve.