My Pretty Yellow Dragon (-origional- origami!) by blind_stranger

My Pretty Yellow Dragon (-origional- origami!)

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This here is of my own design! One og my karate teachers was doing origami one day and made a cool dragon, but wouldn't tell anybody how he made it(there were a bunch of people waching over his shoulder), and so I tried to figure it out, but to no avail... I continued to try to figure out how he did it for the next couple of months and never got it, but instead I invented another, very similar dragon (that had its wings folded @ its sides, not out-streached like above[yet!]) and it was actualy much better than the one my teacher made, so I decided to stick w/ that one. Over the course of two years since, I changed it and developed it more, and then it finaly became this! (I think 'this' rocks!^^)

It's only a couple of inches tall, but that's about adverage for most origami models made from printer-paper. :)

I hope you like it... Any comments? *hint-hint* ^_____________^

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Category Fantasy » Dragons
Date Submitted October 6, 2004, 4:34:12 PM
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blind_stranger on December 13, 2006, 5:12:54 AM

Ok, about the whole crane-base thing... If you were to make the regular crane, the center of the paper would end up being the point on it's back, whereas here, in this dragon, the center of the paper is actually the tip of its front foot. (so the crane-base is actually upside-down) ...Does that help?

tripletrouble3 on August 2, 2006, 6:39:44 AM

This was done by freefolding, right?

Well... so was this thing I'm gonna show 'chu:
http://www.fanart-central.net/pic-466821.html

_rdrz12_ on June 28, 2006, 8:46:25 PM

THAT IS SO TOTALLY DAMN COOL!!

tripletrouble3 on May 9, 2006, 9:28:00 AM

I made something similar to this a long time ago from a streched-blinzed-bird base. Is that what you used?

tripletrouble3 on October 23, 2005, 11:13:02 AM

How did you make a dragon w/ for legs from a normal crane base????*ponders question for rest of eternity till the earth goed boom*

kai_the_hedgehog on July 21, 2005, 1:51:20 PM

Man, I wanna learn oragami.

Riku-kitty on June 9, 2005, 1:13:37 PM

So....AWESOME! XD WICKED~

lilmao_nin on November 26, 2004, 10:28:59 PM

how do u do it?!!!

blind_stranger on October 7, 2004, 9:30:13 AM

Actualy, I -did- use the standerd crane-base. ^________^ 
 
I'll check that book out; it sounds great! (I've been searching stores all over the place for a good origami book, but most of the ones I've found are geared tward utter-beginners and boast about how "easy" the models are... *sigh*) -_- 
 
Thanks for the coments! :D

Stratadrake on October 7, 2004, 4:16:15 AM

Very cool! I know I don't have the patience for experimenting with origami all the time... have you heard of a book called "Origami for the Enthusiast" by John Montroll? That has just about the coolest designs I've ever seen (like a pegasus model so detailed it's almost anatomically correct). 
 
Hmm... looks like you based this dragon off of a modified crane base or something. I know a few of the standard starter shapes but nothing much more than that.