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please help me!! i need help with how to use common bases and make new stuff from it.

Doodling on it, and something will appear.

If you are in stuck also with doodling, try starting whit a variation of the proportion of the base and se what happens

Then you have to go searching the creativity. Its sometimes a bit shy and tries to hide, but it somewhere in your sheet of paper

LOL Im not too shabby with a bird base and my basic starting folds for serpentine objects. but thats considering the short time if done origami other then paper airplanes i used the same starting folds to make a snake, a simple sea serpent (later modifyed by Kafar) and a slug. then from a bird base ive made a bird (species unknown) and a wyvern(type of dragon) other bases havent gottonanything yet thanks for the tips:)

You can modify the bird base in so many ways. Many models just consist of bird bases and 22.5 degree angles. Try joining several bird bases of different sizes or add some box pleating...

well i only know how to start wit a fukl size bird base and i dont know box pleating yet. BUT good suggestions for later on

just today I designed a beaver using the bird base..

YOu should put that in the E-book with diagrams. it would help me see some uses for the bird base in action

Designing using existing bases is something I try to put into my work a lot. I don't think they should be abandoned so quickly: there are so many possibilities simply by changing proportions, or adding a little something. My Sandpiper bird is made from a bird base with strip grafts. If you're interested in folding it, the Crease Pattern is on my page.



Also my crow is made from a waterbomb base. Of course it certainly as simple as that but, I was glad that I could use the base as a starting point:



This is such a great topic. I'm glad you opened it up! I hope that this will shed some light on this mysterious subject. Good luck with your folding. Cheers!

THIS is from a pure blintz frog base with strip grafts.

wow. thats pretty amazing. thanks for starting this post. im thinking of trying my hand at designing. wanna start out hella simple and work my way up to more complicated things though. hahaha! nothing as complex and amazing as that for a VERY long time me thinks.

HEY! simple isnt bad you know! i made a few simple things. it really is just the thoery of it thats important

If you really want to know how to make a common base into something better look at diagrams and take notes on how they split points and create flaps. Unfold structures to see how they work. The bee by Marc Kirscehbaum was made out of a bird base with major modifications. Look at that. Also like others have said mess around with the paper. You might get something useful.

I am pretty sure that there are some topics about this in Robert Lang's "Origami Design Secrets" e.g. Grafting, Slitting Points

yeah i hope to get ODS for birthday 13 days or cristmas (i dunno how many days ) and i hope to get more origami paper. expessically foils and some gift wrap that i could use.