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Hi !
I need advices from all the greatest folders of this forum.
In your opinion, which are the models (from most simple to complex) new folders like me should do to progress in the best conditions ?

P.S. : please excuse my english, I'm French !

You should go to http://www.origami.com, that's where I found the first diagrams I folded. It has models from simple to complex, so it's great for learning origami. There's also a .pdf among those diagrams file which explains the basic folds.

Also a site with lots of simple to complex diagrams is Gabriel Vong's origami kaleidoscope, found here: http://oriman.topcities.com/ . (and ofcourse there are tons more if you search on google)


Don't be disheartened if you can't get a step done though. Just look closely at the crease lines and at the result in the next step and try again. And if you really don't know what to do you can always ask over here in the diagrams section.

Have fun!

I'll suggest getting some origami books - the diagrams in books are often clearer and contain fewer errors than diagrams on the internet.

For book recommendations, here are the relevant threads:
viewtopic.php?t=1237
viewtopic.php?t=966
viewtopic.php?t=344
viewtopic.php?t=37

But otherwise, like Friet said, just keep trying, and don't give up.

You can find a bunch of different videos on different animals, objects etc... on (how to)
http://hobbies.expertvillage.com/interviews/origami.htm
http://hobbies.expertvillage.com/videos ... i-bird.htm
http://hobbies.expertvillage.com/videos ... -whale.htm

There are a bunch more for you I just wanted to give you a few to start with.

You can find a whole bunch of tips and designs here:
http://www.essortment.com/in/Crafts.General/index.htm

luvr29 wrote:You can find a whole bunch of tips and designs here:
http://www.essortment.com/in/Crafts.General/index.htm

That's a pretty decent collection of phone folding instructions.