Origami Designs - Baby Chibi Chameleon

Here is my seventh of the baby chibi design series ... a baby chameleon.

Lovely 

This design just felt so good as it was something unexpected coming from the origami base that I was working with.  I felt the same way with the fox cubs for this model.

Hope you are enjoying this too!  Wishing everyone a great weekend!

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Origami Designs - Baby Chibi Mouse

Now for the sixth of the baby chibi series, I present my simple cartoony mouse.

Simple yet the proudest!

Fortunately this design just felt so perfect ... the ears, the face, the tail and their posture.  Though they look a bit arrogant, they are indeed the best of friends!

Have a wonderful weekend!  Till the next baby chibi design ...

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Origami Designs - Baby Chibi Goats

Here comes the 5th of my baby chibi series design ... 

After making the fox cubs as blogged here, I felt pressured to come up with an even better model.  It took me days to determine what to do until I saw this funny crazy baby goat video ...

... so the baby goats were born :-)

Cute and loving :-)

so playfully happy

I hope I am able to continue doing justice on this design series.  One important thing is for sure, I am enjoying making them! 

Wishing everyone a great weekend!

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Origami Design - Baby Chibi Fox Cubs

Here is the 4th of the Baby Chibi series design that I have been working on.  A baby chibi fox cub.

Simple yet so Beautiful

Frankly, I am quite proud of this creation.  The look, shaping, color change and posture just fell into perfect place.  Just couldn't stop looking and appreciating my work :-).  I hope the whole world would love this model too!

Too excited to move on to the next chibi baby!

Have a great weekend everyone ....

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Origami Design - Baby "Chibi" Koala Bears

For the 3rd of the baby chibi series ... I present my simple koala bears.

Cute and great proportions

The idea actually came to me when I saw this enjoyable video of a Koala bear visiting a hospital caught by a CCTV.

Eureka! Tried designing it using the base model and came up with this impressive shaping and proportioned model.  Though it doesn't have a lot of color changes, its minimalist effect is undoubtedly reflective of what it represent - the cute koala's.

Enjoy!

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Simple Pleasures - Blessed with Friends Magic Touch

Reminds me of the saying  "when it rains, it pours!".  Meaning after a time without rain and the crops are dying, rain does come and it will really be a big and continuous one.

I wrote about the joy of seeing my new found friends making my designs just last week here.  This week, I have been blessed with more lovely pieces.

This one is from a much loved and talented artist who could be one of the people that have kick started me in this journey.  Her name is Yara Yagi and you may find more of her lovely pieces here.  Her blog is a MUST see too!

From one of the greats (I firmly believe) - Rui Roda

One more from Rui

There is a distinct interpretation of their folds and photo composition that make ones' work stand out.  Quite difficult to explain but readily felt when looking at the photo.  Here you may find more of Rui's work in flickr and be blown away!

If you are interested to fold my designs, please feel free to do so.  You may find all my diagrams and tutorials here.  Please do kindly share your creations and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Have a great week!

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Origami Creations - Simple yet Challenging Dragon Models

My first time to reverse engineer an interesting model in Flickr and quite happy with the result.  Even more happier when the original creator was delighted with my folding and photo.

These are the sleeping and baby dragon design by the unassuming origami artist David Donohue (A.K.A. David Wires).  You may check his other beautiful and interesting designs here.

Really quite tempting to use his bases to proceed and make a more detailed dragon.  Probably one of these days, I will surprise him.

Got me one more photo here:

Have a great weekend!

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Origami Design/Creations - Minimalist Easter Bunnies (復活節兔子)

It's the Easter Week and I've challenged myself to do something for this occasion.  An obvious choice is making an easter bunny.

As I have done 3 simple origami competitions (sadly without gaining any win :o(), I have decided to try my skills on making these lovely critters.

Tada ... my minimalist Easter Bunnies.

At first thought, I was a little bit doubtful because of their short ears.  But when I ask the expert opinion of my daughters, they said that they are babies so they will need time to grow them. 

Lovely Babies

Other than this, there are indeed rabbits that have short ears.  These breed is called the "Netherland Dwarf Rabbit".

Super short yet Cute

It was great fun and hope I was able to justice on my Easter Bunnies.

Video tutorial can be found here.

Have a great Easter week!

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More Info:

Easter Bunny Wiki

Netherland Dwarf Bunnies

Origami Design - Easy Whale for the Youth of the World

Life's simple pleasures ... such a joy to be able to share your work and see them being appreciated by your peers.  Even more so, if your pieces are fortunate enough to be use in teaching kids.  So heartwarming and very humbling feeling.

I have posted my minimalist model (easy 5-step baby whale design) in one of my origami group and an ori-friend of mine was kind enough to fold it.  Here is his fold:

Folded by Dida (Dimitris Dalas)

I am also very delighted that a teacher nicely asked my permission to use this model for teaching her students.  A great pleasure and honor to be able to contribute to the youth of the world!

I am re-posting the CP (crease pattern) + step diagram here for everyone's enjoyment.  You may fold using the CP to challenge yourself or do the step diagram for an easy route to making the model.

1st frame shows the CP

Here is the video tutorial:

Have a nice weekend!

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Origami Design/Creations - 5 steps Happy Baby Whale

I have joined another origami event to create minimalist models using A4 (rectangular) paper and limited to a maximum of 6 steps.  It was tough to make something meaningful with the very limited folds required but finally I am very happy with what I came up with.  

Here it is:

Below is a CP (crease pattern) + step diagram for those who want to try to make the model.

 

I have also added a video tutorial for those who wants a more animated and clearer presentation.

Hope you enjoyed this model as I did.  Have a nice day!

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