r/origami

Made from a sheet of paper that kfc uses to wrap burgers and stuff,it's heavy inspired by Jo Nakashima's dragon :)

If anyone has experience with this structure I’d love to hear what they would change, especially in the first photo where the swivel feels unnecessary but I couldn’t get it to work without it

Made from 1/4 of a sticky note

Folded from leftover paper scraps and a toothpick

My second diorama, all metallic paper in 3x3 and 2x2 inches. Center Rook in 6x6 inches.

Castle made of Rook pieces by Jo Nakashima.

Dragon from Easy Origami on Youtube.

Metallic paper can be very unforgiven, and this small scale was definitely above my skill level, but enjoyable to build nonetheless. Lets go for old ruined castle lol.

This was my *first attempt at Nguyen Hung Cuong’s Eagle. I gave up with my original attempt because the crease pattern was messed up and the collapse on step 58 went horribly. Looking around the internet and the subreddit, his design was the one that caught my eye the most. I gave up thinning up the legs and used a little creative liberty and gave it a larger tail. Overall still very proud of it and I might reattempt this model with a larger sheet of paper.

The white one was folded and shaped by me 6 years ago at the age of 14. The blue one was folded and shaped by me now at the age of 20. Both made from double tissue.

A few months ago I got worked up on designing a model for Rhyssa Persuasoria, a really cool looking wasp with a terrifying life cycle.
The final one was folded with 78cm kraft, black/grey because there was no more black/white... I'll need to start getting into custom silk paper for an iteration closer to the subject's proportions.
You can see the reverse story of the model in the pictures past the reference photo. It started with me being impressed by how thin and long I could points with a simple blintz bird base, but when I tried to have proportions closer to the real wasp, things got trickier. I tried several bases, classic and custom, and landed on a classic one which seemed the most suitable to have the least amount of wasted paper after thinning. Once the proportions were good, I changed the design several times to have super thin legs, then to have a less bulky body (because the paper I gained in the legs mostly went in the body), etc., just a story of paper layering optimization. The wings use the center of the square, since they can take in a lot of layers without issue, but due to the color swap I had to have the body more or less be the colors of the wings (so yellowish white, as opposed to the real wasp where it's mostly black). I was able to have some color patterns on the abdomen, and the legs can be whichever.
Due to its base the model isn't extremely complex, and the shaping is mostly "compress as much as you can everywhere". There's obviously a bunch of steps where you sink in and out all the flaps repeateadly to thin everything and they take like half the total folding time.

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Złożył dla mnie te kwiaty, jeden po drugim 🌷/He folded these for me🌷

Folded by me
35cm Washi paper, shaped with water

This is the best one I made so far.

One of my favorites.