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One of the most popular and also challenging patterns is Dragon. Dragons are mythical creations, although ingrained into our culture so much, that some may actually think they have really existed in the past alongside the dinosaurs. Especially kids are vulnerable to this as they watch all kind of fairy tales and animated TV shows. That said, we all surely know very well how a dragon looks like - at least the shape, big wings, long, powerful tail and the face similiar to the one of an overgrown lizard. But, there are really many different ways in which we can build our dragon. As long as some patterns also give a lot of room to the creators, dragons literally are the creators pattern. We can watch a youtube video, follow the tutorial of the book step-by-step and we will probably still make a slightly different dragon than the author of the video/tutorial we watched/followed.
With this in mind, this is definitely not the pattern for begginers. Most likely, beginners with only a few simple patterns under their belt won't be able to create a dragon at all, not to mention actually make it look like a dragon, even when following the tutorial step-by-step. It not only requires great manual skills, as some people are simply born being good with their hands, but it also requires the user to have a certain feel for origami - creator needs to know what is it, that he wants to achieve. Otherwise, he will probably fail as it's labeled as one of the most challenging patterns out there, but also one of the most popular, which is constantly being talked over on various origami forums. Definitely better to come back to it once we have at least a year of experience with origami.

Please mind, that as there are literally thousands of different way we can create our dragons, every single pattern we find in a book or on youtube will be much different as well. Some may be easier, focusing just on getting the shape right, and some may be extremely challenging and detailed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUsxMXwCW8A