How long does origami take

Also do you think printer paper is good to fold animals with? Post by JeossMayhem » March 20th, , pm Really, practice is all it takes. Check out origami books from the library and buy the ones you like. Start off easy and work your way further once you've got all the basics down.

Nobody gets proficient in just a few days. It just takes experience and persistance. And as you'll notice in this forum, printer paper is usually good for practice but not much else. It's a bit thick for some things and doesn't shape well unless the model is fairly simple and doesn't photograph well. However, for sure, it's a cheap alternative if you're just testing some diagrams out before making your masterpiece from more expensive, higher quality paper.

Printer paper is a good place to start if you can't find pre-cut squares of Japanese kami or foil at any art supply stores. Another upside is it helps when you're practing learning from crease patterns since you can just print it out on your sheet, instead of finding references.

Welcome to the forums. Check out my blog! Post by noob » March 20th, , pm thanks JeossMayhem. How many years have you been folding?

Post by mrsriggins » March 20th, , pm Try using kami origami paper and experiment with papers. Some models look better when folded with thicker paper others thin. Once you know how to fold a model fold it again focusing on being very precise with the folds and it should come out looking less messy. The more you fold the more you understand. You're not going to pick up origami for the first time and tackle a kamiya model.

It takes practice and understanding of origami- all the steps and how they work. The more diagrams you look at and fold the clearer it becomes. The internet is such a wonderful thing for origami because there are soooo many free models.

Also take full advantage of this forum. People love to help. There also a wealth of learning on here from paper to cp's to wet folding- there's a bit of everything so take advantage of the search function on this site for questions you might have too! Happy folding. So here's to hope, and everyday heroes. Post by JeossMayhem » March 20th, , pm I've been folding on and off for about a decade now, usually in the summers when I don't have school. There's people here that have been folding waaay longer than that though.

It's nice to have a wide range of skill levels here so there's always people to learn from or admire. Post by origamimasterjared » March 21st, , am Fifteen years of practice. I joined the origami email list six or seven years ago. From there I learned about and started going to local clubs. I also had little competitions with Jason Ku before he got really good. Saw what was right with theirs, and have been working to improve ever since.

Anything that is not becoming a display piece is practice. Then get into the good stuff. More on that later Post by klnothincomin » March 21st, , am Well, I started folding when I was five, and I just kept trying many different models, and they all got more complex. I started folding a simple crane, and now I folded Kamiya's Ancient Dragon!

It is surprising what you can fold as long as you try, I mean, I am only thirteen, and I still have many years of folding ahead of me! Kevin Luo If practice doesn't make perfect, at least it passes time! Cibulka » March 21st, , am We have one fold adage in the Czech republic: "Repetition is mother of the wisdom.

If you will fold hundreds of ancient dragons, you will be the best but only with ancient dragons. Ondrej Cibulka Origami, www.

Post by xaoslord » March 21st, , pm I'll let you know when I get better Post by Jonnycakes » March 21st, , pm as Ondrej. Cibulka said, repitition is key. I folded from diagrams for many years, and that helped me a lot.

I personally advanced my skills a lot though I wasn't purposely folding for that purpose by folding from "Origami Sea Life" by Lang and Montroll. I folded just about everything in that book, many of them several times. That book is wonderful-it has models of every difficulty and they are all very good-it is great for the advancing folder. My Flickr. Post by HankSimon » March 21st, , pm 1. Buy some inexpensive, commercial origami from a craft store.

Slowly learn how to make very precise, sharp creases. The more precise you are early in the sequence, the better the model at the end. Get practice with lots of styles, but let frustrating models rest, while you go to other models. Then come back. Lots of us have timeout baskets of unfinished models that we keep returning to, as our skills grow. Both Akira Yoshizawa and Robert Lang have remarked that some of their models took 25 years! So patience is important. Determine which models, animals, authors that you like, and try to become an expert in those areas.

That approach will give you motivation to develop deep expertise will help you grow with other styles. If you have the opportunity, then teach. You will gain much insight. The largest origami owl was 3. An origami cobra measuring An origami caterpillar measuring m ft was folded by 60 young people in Heiligenstadt Germany in October They used 25, sheets of paper and needed 25 hours. They raised 13, Euro for charity in the process.

Origami enthusiasts from all over the world sent in paper wagons to take part in this record attempt. A square 1 mm by 1 mm was used to fold a crane using a microscope and sewing needle by Assistant Professor Watanabe at Nigata University, Japan. Naito, Japan, folded a flapping bird from paper a mere 2.

To display it, Naito mounted it on a needle inside a transparent globe. However it was still very difficult to see so Nigel Keen fitted a contact lens to the outside of the globe through which it could be viewed. Smallest Fortune Teller. Christian Elbrandt, Denmark, has folded a 2. The frog achieved a jump of millimetres. Christian Thorp Frederiksen aged 12 from Denmark built a paper aircraft measuring 2. Source: Bornes Rekordbog A flower with a diameter of 3.

A Kawasaki rose as found in Origami for the Connoisseur with a diameter of approximately 3 millimetres was folded by Joseph Wu. This may have since been superseded by Winson Chan, against whom he is competing in an ongoing smallest rose competition. Evelyne Girard, Quebec, Canada, folded butterflies in December from recycled paper. Peter Koppen , a Munich bus driver folds the classic boat like a hat only.

He calls them Microships and folds hundreds of them in different colours and then assembles them into collages. He has been reported as having folded over two hundred thousand , of them. Largest Fleet of Paper Boats.

In September , year-old Markin Kunz of Germany folded 13, paper boats in working hours at a swimming pool in Landau in September To qualify the boats have to be actually set on water at the same venue. Venkatesh Gattem India arranged paper boats to to a mosaic showing a big ship [measuring 5. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, two hundred thousand folded paper cranes were completed by December 15th