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• #Step by step origami elephant how to

Sam's advice to "just start folding" was good advice.Īnd now the tutorial. This wasn't as monumental of a task as I thought it was going to be. Following someone else's instructions is also more stressful because the instructions are often not made very well. I wouldn't think about this at all if I was following someone else's instructions.

#Step by step origami elephant how to

By designing my own model, I was asking questions about what I could do differently to get different results, like how to make the legs longer or angled differently. This process was educational, and probably more so than if I had made some complicated model from a book I found somewhere.

What can I make with that?Įventually I found something I liked and settled on this: I need to experiment some more with the front. It looks like the rear of a short-legged animal! Now that's part of something.but what? After a while I came back to that piece of paper when I looked at it and noticed that I could add a few more folds to make this: Rather than discard my failed attempt I set it aside and moved on to other things. Something I couldn't do is the double rabbit ear fold. Some of the models were instructional like a kite base or petal fold, while others were completed things like a 5-pointed star. I started with the basic models in John Montroll's book Animal Origami for the Enthusiast. That was good advice, and that's exactly what I did. Sam's advice was to "just start folding" and proceed from there. It is hard enough making origami models from watching other YouTube tutorials or from following instructions in books how can I possibly expect to design my own? The task seemed overwhelming. When I started working on this I was confused about what to do. I also made a YouTube tutorial you can watch to learn how to make one of your own.īefore looking at the tutorial let's discuss the design process. This isn't an origami model from a book, it is a model I came up with myself. For my final project I designed this origami elephant: