Origami Creations - More Monkeys for 2016

I found this cool and playful looking origami monkey in my FB account the other day.  It is designed by Carlson Cho.

Cute monkey

It is such a cute model and I like its playful and young outlook.

Here is the video tutorial for this model.

Enjoy your weekend!

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Origami Design - Red Packet for Chinese New Year of the Monkey

Finally created my first ori-design for 2016 and it is for the biggest celebration in the Chinese community - Chinese Lunar New Year!  

And for the year of the Red Monkey, here is a unique, fun and simple red packet envelope which you can use to put in your lucky money to give to family and friends.

Simple & No gluing required

This is my design gift to the Origami and the Chinese community!  

Fortunately, I have the support and kind assistance of Ms. Jenny Chan of Origami Tree to make a video tutorial.  She has also included this model in her blog.

Here's wishing one and all an advance Happy Chinese New Year!!! 

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Origami Creations - Amazing Goat Design

I just found out about this goat design by the famous origamist Roman Diaz.  No one abandons a Roman Diaz creation so I went about making it immediately. 

Excellent realistic shaping

I use baking paper to fold this design to avoid the thickening layers for some areas.  The result was quite impressive!

Awesome in B&W

I took another picture using Black and White ... so happy with its effect!  Would surely try to fold this with better paper next time.

For anybody interested to try folding this, you can download the diagram here.

Have a great weekend guys!

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Origami Creations - Sheep and more sheeps

My fondness for sheeps and goats still so strong with more adorable models and designs which I could not resist but make them.

Here they are ...

Excellent shaping and proportions

First off ... sheep by the awesome japanese origamist Hideo Komatsu.  As usual, it has an impressive folding sequence and a great color change.  What do you think?

Nice massive horns

Second is by Seth Friedman ... the photo would speak for itself.  Again, he freely shares his design through the video tutorial below:

Cool design

Thirdly ... the classic sheep design by the japanese origamist Jun Maekawa.  A tutorial is also available below for your folding pleasure.

Finally, below is another simple sheep by another japanese origamist Usada Takayuki.  I enjoyed the folding sequence and shaping for this model.  You should try it!

For this sheep, you can download the diagrams here.

You should have a busy sheep week if you would take up the challenge of making these great origami designs.

Good luck!

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Origami Design - My Simple Sheep for CNY 2015

Finally, I got my own sheep design and submitted to the Japan Origami Academy Society (JOAS) celebration for World Origami Days (WOD).  Also, I used it for the International Origami Internet Olympiad competition  as my design task.

It will be the Chinese New Year of the Goat/Sheep next year so it is my fitting tribute to the best holiday of the year in Asia!

Simple and Sleek

Black is beautiful too!

I have prepared the diagrams for this piece and have asked some good pro ori-friends to test fold and provide feedback.  

Below are their awesome interpretation of my design.

My fave electric blue sheep 

Check out Patricia's folds in her flickr account here.

MagicFingaz with his cool variation

Check out Barth Dunkan (aka Ecorigami MagicFingaz) flickr account here.

Cool shaping and paper

Check out Rui Roda's flickr account here.

Mini-fold by awesome fast and expert folder Daniel Xu

Here  is Daniel's flickr account.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!

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Origami Designs /Creations - 3D Horse Head Tutorial

Just barely two (2) weeks before the Lunar New Year of the Horse so I tried to catch up with the video tutorial for my Simple 3D Horse Head origami.  Details were mentioned in my blog here.

And a photo here to remind you on this model.

Without further ado, here below is the tutorial.

Again, I wish everyone a great Lunar New Year of the Horse.  Enjoy and have a great weekend!

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