yea, i’m overdue…

As anyone would expect. Since I’ve got back from school I’ve been busy with a couple things:

— Painting my house the old-fashioned way, without pay, under the thumb of my mother. This also involves waking up at five every morning.
— Because I’m not getting paid for the housepainting and I don’t have a real job, I’ve been oddjobbing it this summer, yet again. Lots of yardwork, which is actually paying pretty well for $10/hour.
— I’ve found it hard to get motivated to finish my projects, because 1) I’m feeling lazy and 2) I’m sapped from yardwork and painting.
— And as of this morning I’ve had my wisdom teeth out so I’m on hydros, anti-inflammatories and antibiotics. Hard to focus on folding when the pain and hyrdos lull you to sleep.

Good news is Art Camp 2008 will start a week from today. I’ll be teaching origami and helping with the instruction of various art projects for three groups of kids over three weeks. Since the school is at my friend’s house who lives out a ways, I’ll be spending every weeknight camped out there, which also conventiently frees me from my painting and yardwork responsibilities. By then my jaw should feel fine as well, so I plan on COMPLETING at least one of my projects.

I’ll probably take pictures of my progress as well as what’s going on in the art camp so maybe I’ll be upadating stuff on weekends since the camp has a dail-up connection…

wow, it’s actually almost done.

Well, somehow in the past week I’ve actually found ample time with which do some designing. Then again I haven’t been playing FF6 for the past week so that must be it.

Anyway, here’s the pattern I’ve pretty much finalized for my sulcata’s shell. This one is based off of a 32×32 grid, but I’m pretty sure the final product will be based off of a 52×52 grid (ugh, I tried 48ths but now I think it’ll be best if its in 52, which means 13ths in quarters…shit).

There’s marginal scutes too but they’re not very noticable on a 5cm long model, photographed in terrible light, at a poor angle, with the camera sandwhiched between my right hand and my head to keep it still enough to work without flash. My bad. My bad…

Check back here in the next month and I SHOULD have it done, or at least a very near final draft.

almost forgot.

Before I folded Jared’s Cougar and Quentin’s Horse, as seen in the previous post, I eye-balled Kade’s Magic Ball to help someone out on the forum. Here’s a few pics of my final product:

Here’s a link to the forum, showing my guide how to make it. NOTE: this isn’t a guide to make the Magic Ball, just the pattern of it. Later on I explain how you apply it to making it, such as the dimensions and method of closing it up.

midterms, folding, ironman.

I want to apologize for those of you are hope to see new stuff and are utterly disappointed each time. Lots of studying going on. So here’s what I’ve been working on. Some buddies of mine off the forum have given me some things to work on.

Jared Needle (origamimasterjared) gave me the CP to his cougar design for my birthday. Here it is out of 15cm silver Japanese foil.

And, Quentin Trollip (qtrollip) sent me his diagrams for his horse. Also folded out of 15cm silver Japanese foil.

Here are the two together:

Both designs were a blast to fold and shape. Also, I feel I have to mention that Quentin’s diagrams were flawless. Obviously much time was spent in drawing them. I hope I can be the first to buy his book, heh.

On an unrelated note, Ironman was the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. If you haven’t, go watch it in theatres. Absolutely badass and hysterical.

happy birthday to me.

I’m officialy 19. It’s been a good day so I wanted to take this opporunity to thank everyone I know, including those who visit this blog. I’ve recieved 2,892 views since I first started this blog last December and get about 20-25 hits every day. I wish I had more stuff to post but recently I’ve been pinned under homework. My birthday weekend is also being plagued by studies for four daunting quizzes and midterms this coming Monday and Tuesday.

Anyway, I hope you continue to check this space for when I do get some new material up. I’ve picked up my old sulcata tortoise design and promised myself to have it done by the end of the summer, haha.

the title says it all.

Yea, so I’ve been busy. Haven’t been able to fold much other than a few of Lang’s Orchid Blossoms from Origami Design Secrets. A fun model but doesn’t satisfy my craving to work on my own design (sulcata tortoise hatchling?). I’ve got two midterms this week so hopefully I can find some time later this week to do something… And finals are coming up soon so I don’t have much of a gap of free time… Oh well, such is life. 

But thanks to those that have regularly visited my page. Hopefully I can make some photodiagrams for my hawksbill, since it seems to be the most popular post (except for the ones with Bahamut and Ancient Dragon thanks to people trying to find scanned diagrams… damn you).

holy crap, i’m drenched.

This last month was pretty depressing. Solely because every time I opened my mailbox I’d have flyers and useless whatnots. Finally! Yesterday I got Origami for Interpreters and I must say I’m extremely happy with it and it was well worth the wait. There’s nothing like adding a pristine hardback book with the rest of my collection. I ended up folding his crane late into the night, partially because I couldn’t restrain myself, partly because I was folding it for a friend. Anyway, check this space for my attempt at his Tancho Zuru CP.

Model: Crane
Designer: Roman Diaz ( http://dosisdiaria.blogspot.com/)
Folded from diagram, Origami for Interpreters
24cm Kami

Kami worked well, though, obviously, the toes look a bit monstrous. After quadrupling the area of the paper and making it out of tissue foil, this problem should be wholly eliminated. But wait… I need to make more paper first…

wednesdays are for folding.

There’s a 24-hour period between my classes on Wednesdays and Thursdays, so I figured I’d put my last, green-red sheet of tissue foil to good use. There’s only one model I had in mind when I made this sheet, and that’s of course, Brian Chan’s One-Sheet Rose. It’s probably going to be a gift.

Model: One-Sheet Rose (2005)
Designer: Brian Chan (http://chosetec.darkclan.net/origami/)
Folded from diagram, Tanteidan Convention 12
42cm Tissue Foil

Thanks to everyone who’s been checking this blog out, as well as by brother’s and mother’s.

it seems I have nothing better to do over a three day weekend…

But here’s are the two CPs for my Hawksbill Sea Turtle v2.0, with the skinnier shell. I figured I’d make them in Oripa to make sure they collapsed right, and to give the fold orientations too. They’re kind of complex to collapse though, but don’t expect me to draw diagrams too. I’d have to be REALLY bored… which just might happen too.

Here is base #1. It’s on a 56×56 grid, but don’t grid every line! You won’t need them! There will always be some extraneous creases, but it’s not hard to minimize their existence. And when you’re making the grid, start in 7ths (use a ruler, don’t be a hero), then split into eights.

And here is base #2. After you collapse base #1, you’ll have a 36×36 grid, which translates easy into this 12×12 base. I recommend figuring out this base first on a separate sheet so you don’t waste the first few hours getting the first base done.

I’ve switched to flikr.com now just because when I post on the forums, my pics are obnoxiously big, and I don’t want to have to upload on two different image hosters…

it’s really windy outside today.

So I folded my hawksbill sea turtle out of tissue foil and it didn’t look right… I was kind of disappointed actually. I decided I’d start over. AGAIN. I instead made the turtle base on a 12×12 grid opposed to an 8×8, which let me make the shell look wider than the head, appropriately. This also let me get a longer neck and skinnier flippers. Again, I work from two bases, one that gives me the pattern for the shell, and the second giving the limbs and whatnot. Also, nlike my old model, the grid lines that are used during the tessellation’s base fit those for the second base as well. I decided to make the shell wider than before, but I decided it’s a little too wide now, and I’ll probably make another one with that revision.

Model: Hawksbill Sea Turtle v2.0
Designer: Geoff Mayhew
43cm Tissue Foil

Here is the first base.

As it turns out drawing the cp with both bases included is possible but a huge pain in the ass. I’ll post up both CP’s soon… when I get around to it…