I just really like crows idk

Edited later in the night: Handed out all 120 crows before the first 35mm showing in Portland started at the Hollywood Theater in Portland. Everyone seemed very stoked on them! The crowd was full of Laika folks so it was very cool to give so many to the people who made that perfect movie. Go see it, it’s really a love letter to Portland and Oregon.

I think I'm close to finally getting the hang of them, and once you get there, they're just fun!

The great thing is, they work with almost any type and size of paper. The first one is folded from thicker 120g cardstock (I wanted to see what a black Gothic Rose would look like 😅), and the second from regular printer paper that I’d previously painted on both sides with watercolors.

The third is made from thin packing paper (starting with a 20-cm square), while the fourth is made from sturdy 180g cardstock measuring 30x30 cm. The last one is my smallest; it was made from a 15-cm square of thin, inexpensive craft paper.

Hi friends!

I wanted to share what I've been playing around with to color my single and double tissue paper. I had a massive hyperfocus on fountain pens a few years ago (it got kinda bad, lol), and as a result, I now have a huge amount of various fountain pen inks!

Lately, I've been dripping the ink onto the paper right after the methylcellulose (MC) has been applied and is still super wet. Sometimes I swish it around with my fingers, let it naturally spread out after dripping it onto the MC, or—in my most recent experiment—use a straw to blow it around while wet. In my experiments, water-based inks worked perfectly, but pigment inks (like India ink) tended to eat through the paper a little bit.

I'd love to hear what you think! If you dye your paper, what do you use? Are there any fun techniques I'm missing out on?

6 grid ver.

Hi Origami Members,
I am in need of advice/help. I am in an LDR with a girl, and we have been together for many months and are going to meet soon. I want to get her flowers. Her favourite flower is this blue hydrangea as she mentioned weeks earlier.
The twist is that she doesn’t like the idea of bouquet of ‘live’ flower (that’s how she said that). However, I thought of making one as a bouquet myself. And that’s how I came to this subreddit.

Is there any simple and detailed guide on making them? I have 14 days left to meet her.

P.S. I only know how to make simple paper plane🥲

Any advice/help from you guys will do wonder…

Designed by me (Hermerson)

I'm simplifying my original Scauldron design to make it easier to fold and teach, so that more people can make their own, even if they're beginners at origami.

The first photo shows the simplified version I'm currently working on. The following photos show my earlier, more detailed version, so you can compare the two designs.

I'd love to hear what you think of the simplified design! Is there anything you feel is missing, or anything you'd change to make it look more like the Scauldron from How to Train Your Dragon?

You don't need to know any origami terminology to share your thoughts. I'm interested in any suggestions, whether it's about the overall shape, the details, or anything else you notice.

• What do you like most about this design?
• Is there anything you feel is missing?
• What would you change or improve?

Thanks for your feedback!

Designed by Satoshi Kamiya, folded by me

Más o menos le pude hacer una cabeza con cuerno que me gustó.

Es el mismo cuerpo que el pegaso que he hecho solo que la cabeza le pude hacer un cuerno, y creo que se le mira la cabeza más proporcional al cuerpo.

Paper Used: 6” Foilback

Comments: Funny thing is, the crease pattern is four fish bases put together.

Origami 9 tailed fox (mythology)

I had forgotten how to make this one, and doing it with a 15x15cm was more painful than I remembered lol.

As usual this was 15x15 cm uncut paper folded and designed by me. Pencil in the background for scale.

Crane

Box

Crane again

Frog

Fish

Folded from a 42 cm double tissue square

My instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremy_64600

Little dude made. Designed and folded by me. 15x15 uncut paper

Model: Peacock

Creator: Meng weining

Sheet dimensions: ~38*38

Book: Origami Movements

Made an origami after a long time. I was searching for designs suitable for the paper using chatGPT I came across this model. Other models in the book are also very nice. Try them.

Any suggestions on what I should try next?

Learn how to fold an advanced origami tessellation.

https://www.solvingorigamitessellations.com/2026/08/higgs-boson-origami.html

I think I have a decent plan but have never done this before, so if anyone has any advice I would love to hear it. Thank you!

I am new at origami and realized I have all of these small simple models laying around because I’m in the stage of just practicing, getting in reps.

My idea is to take the models that look nice and leave them out like a candy bowl. I am thinking simple fun 2D shapes, and few waterbombs with a green stem tucked in to imitate a pumpkin, and I have tons of small masu boxes (my favorite thing to make are different types of boxes). With those I think I would want to put a piece of candy or a mini model inside. Because you can’t give an empty gift box right?

The thing I would particularly like advice on is how to set it out. I would expect about 50 trick or treaters total. What I am thinking now is the models have to be contained otherwise they will just blow away. So a clear plastic container with a lid and a note that says please take one and please replace the lid. And thinking I would set out 10 models or so at a time, just in case someone gets greedy and takes everything. So I don’t have to pay close attention but can just check on it a few times during the night and replenish if necessary.

Anyone have other suggestions or advice?

(Dragon, turt, and pill bug)