Simple Yet Impressive. Your Favourite Models
Hello, I wonder if I am the only one who is tired of people assuming I can only fold cranes and paper planes when I let them know that I do origami. I am sure some of you found themselves in similar situations. Every time it happens to me I think it would be great to have really impressive model in my pocket just to show them how original and expressive origami can be. So the question is, are there any model that are pretty simple to make, that look unusual and impressive, but also can survive for a long time if I take them around with me at school? I hope the idea doesn't sound too silly.
It may be hard to impress a person that doesn't know anything about origami even with the most complicated model, just because not everyone is able to understand how hard it is to fold a paper into a certain shape without using a drop of glue or not cutting the paper with scissors. So get ready to unfolding the model each time you want to prove that it wasn't glued from several sheets.
Rod89, mhm, especially if a model has two colours in it. Be ready to prove your friends that you didn't use two sheets of paper and glue.
Martin16, How about folding a simple model right in front of their eyes! It impresses everyone but for kids it is literally jaw-dropping show! Be sure tho that they'll probably want you to teach them how you do it!
I used to have a turtle model that carried with me in my bag for some time. Used MC on it, as I wanted it to last... but I guess a bit too much, so it lost its natural look, as if I just glued parts of it together... So folding/unfolding a simple model maybe a better option.
I make traditional jumping frog for showing non-folders that origami is not as boring as they may think. It looks really easy when they watch me make it, but they inevitably fail trying to make it themselves. Also the frog jumps, which makes it cute, and you can always give it as a present to that person.
Evamccorman, haha, sounds cool. I really like it!
Evamccorman, yeah, exactly what I'm talking about!
Evamccorman, so it looks like I need to be carrying origami sheets with me everywhere.
Have anyone ever asked you to take a fresh sheet just because yours was already "precreased", which in some way should have been making it easier for you to make a model? I have even been asked once where the precreased paper can be bought and the person was surprised to hear that all the folding should be done with your own hands.
blake7, true! Folding a hundred sheets of paper in halves sounds hard to non-folders, while folding just one single origami paper one hundred times so that it turns into an elaborate model looks "easy-peasy".
Agreed! "Ah, I know origami! I can make a crane!". It's hard for them to see the work you put in making a model.
Martin16, why don't you put a model in a tiny box and carry it around in a bag?
I've heard that pre-creased origami paper project was launched at Kickstarter (or Indiegogo, I am not sure, to be honest, but I usually surf crowdfunding platforms looking for projects somehow related to origami and learning languages). I remember when I just started folding it was pretty hard for me to break through even simplest models without drawing light lines for folding on the sheet. I am sure many people would be happy if the origami paper they bought were pre-creased. What do you think of it?
I have heard about pre-creased origami paper, but I wouldn't use it anyway, because for me it feels like folding a model using the paper that someone has already used before. This is just odd. For me the magic is in the fact that the paper is just paper: flat and plain, but then I turn it into something interesting.
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