Origami, chinese dragon in paper

Before to start telling you how I built my chinese dragon in paper, it may be a good idea to explain what is origami ??? If you know what is it, just skip this part if not, keep readiiing. Origami is a japonese word and the literal translation is “folding paper”. The size of the paper is not the most important, of course I exclude the tiniest ones, but let’s imagine that you use a normal A4 format, by using this art technique, you will fold the paper until to get the form of a lion or a swan for example. Now that everyone knows what origami is, I will start to tell you about my dragon. First, I didn’t use only one paper but a lot of small papers like you can see on the pictures below, so much that my

desk seemed tiny that I asked myself one last time “am I sure to want to do it today ?”.

Like you can see, they were all in yellow color but I could choose them in blue, green... this day, I just felt yellow. After passing about 6 hours folding them in triangle, my fingers felt like if they were running for the Olympic Games to win the gold medal, heavy and tied. I still had a lot of papers but at least, I didn’t feel lost anymore in this paper sea. At this moment, I took a break, just to prepare a tea and thinking of the best option, build first the head, the body or the paws. After doing the hard folding part, I wanted to do something easy and quick, something

I could say “at the end, it starts to look like ???” so for me, the easy one is the paw then the head.

The paws are composed of 2 elements, the legs and the claws. Also, I had to take in account that the hind paws should be bigger than the fore paws. Keeping that in mind, I started to connect the triangle papers, one by one until to get the form I wanted.

Once done, the head. This section is composed of 2 parts, the lower and the upper jaw. Building them separately then with the glue, I stuck them together to form the head with the open jaw.

Last part, the body. This section took me a little more time and it is also composed of 2 elements, the belly with the tail and the back with the thorns. The back should be smaller than the belly. The fact to build the body in 2 parts makes the structure stronger because with only one, it can break easily, above all if I want to bend it to create a movement effect.

Now that all the main parts were built, I just had to wait that the glue dried. After few hours, I started to put together the head, the body and the paws, again with the glue and again waiting few hours more, in fact, during a whole night.

At the next morning, I got a beautiful and great chinese dragon made of papers and with a lot of unused gold papers, I fold more than I should, well not really a problem, I just kept them in a corner of my desk in case if one day I will use this paper art to build another figurine.

If you want to build your own dragon, why not order yours for only 20 euros (shipping included) ??? It is very fun and very easy to do it, the dragon will be in white color. The package includes:

• the exact size and numbers of papers with some extra in case if you lose some of them
• and a manual with pictures explaining how to make it step by step.

The payment will be done through paypal so totally secured with your credit card or with your paypal account. For more information about paypal, visit its official website.

 

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