Original Origami Designs, Tabletop RPGs, and Everything In Between
This bee was inspired by listening to the Mouse Guardians podcast and the delightful “Chilibee” who has stolen my heart. This model uses the bird base with the head and tail split to create the flaps necessary for the legs and antennae.
I jotted down the ideas for how to approach it over a few minutes and then folded atop a local mountain!
Today’s chopstick wrapper doodle became a triplane! Using a pair of waterbomb bases to form the wings frees up the rest of the length for the body and tail. Open sinks give the wings a sense of height and presence.
This one was a request while I was waiting around at Comic Con. I think it could still use a little tweaking, but it’s undeniably a Starfleet vessel!
Inspired by meeting TallSquall from the Tutncloaks podcast, I did some more doodling at Comic Con. This time a crow mask like his character Alastair wears.
I was super excited to be able to meet Ana from the WanderQuest podcast at Comic Con. She plays Lily Moon, a half-orc barbarian with a signature axe. Armed with a pad of 4″ x 6″ plain paper, I started doodling.
Made this little critter as a doodle while playing Dungeons & Dragons as a druid with a pet mouse. It uses a simple fish base to start with, turning the fins into ears. With a little work out could easily turn into a mole, with the ears turned down to form clawed feet.
This was entirely a doodle based on trying to use a frog base for a humanoid form. The arms made the wings and the thickness of the head/beak made a simple fold the only thing readily feasible with standard printer paper.
I’ve seen several people doing drawn and painted artwork for #MerMay and #mermaychallenge, so I decided to try my hand at it.
It came around time for my sister-in-law’s birthday, and rather than getting her gift cards this year, we decided to go with the gift card accepted everywhere: also known as cash. I whipped up a French Bulldog by modifying a dollar origami (standard) bulldog model by @JanessaMunt to give it the right ears. Needing a second model for a second bill, I decided to go with BB-8. My original design used a $50, which gave it a nice coloring but required folding a small strip along one of the long sides to center the black circular mark (on the front of the bill) in the center before following the steps down below. I did diagrams for a more affordable version. Luckily the back of the $1 bill has a huge nicely centered circle on it.
The affordable version:
Diagrams:
The antannae take a little adjusting to get right. Don’t be afraid to let the back get a little messy while you massage them into place.
The expensive original:
A horse in unicorn-themed barding got polymorphed into a wolf (keeping the armor) in a recent episode of Venture Maidens, and I couldn’t resist trying to make a wolficorn.
A couple of bird bases provided the necessary flaps to do all the limbs. The first few attempts I made with a single sheet ended up clumsy and too thick because of the pair of flaps needed for the face and horn.
