The Origami Forum

My favorite origami subject is insects, I find it to be the most beautiful origami subject, it has everything I love, complexity, rewarding and awesome results if done rigth. I fell in love of this subject after seeing Dr. Robert Lang's Stag Beetle BP, opus 477 on his website before that I did not knew that origami could be like that, my jaw fell to the floor in fact of all of the models I have seen from various artists I find Lang's stag beetle to be the most beautiful model in origami, it is so alive at first glance I thought it was a real beetle! (I wish I could understand the CP, can anyone help me with this?)

I say rewarding because after the model is done it requires very little or no abstraction to "get" the model you see it and go "it's a beetle", or "it's a spider" and even if you don't have some amount of insect knowledge, even if the model you are showing represents an insect that no one knows, they go "it's an bug". This doesn't happen with other origami subjects, it get's me really frustrated when I spent about three to five hours, wet folding a complex model and then I show it to my friends or family and they go "what is it?" arghhhhhhh, I know I got the model right but they don't get it what's wrong?

I also like flowers very much, I'm not very found of other subjects, like mythological creatures because no one has ever seen one, so ther is no mother nature to compare it with, unlike flowers and insects besides I believe origami to be a representation of nature troughout the means of paper.

my favorite origami subject is: folding

Darksoul wrote:I'm not very found of other subjects, like mythological creatures because no one has ever seen one...

How can you be so sure about it? I mean.... there must have been some kind of influence for the depicting of those creatures

Anyway, I can't really restrict the subjects I like to fold. Flowers might be my favourite designing subject though, but probably only because they are easy enough to come up with for me to manage.

Darksoul wrote:...like mythological creatures because no one has ever seen one, so ther is no mother nature to compare it with...

What about dodos and dinosaurs?

I think my favorite origami subject has to be flowers and abstract things

Abstract... gotta love abstract origami, eh islandmassive?

Fantasy creatures all the way.

Followed from a distance by geometrical models from one single sheet and tessellations

I'm a big fan of fantasy creatures too, followed by regular land animals.

Oh and I also really like human figures, but there aren't that many realistic human diagrams available. (/me waits for Hojyo's book :p)

hmm... I wouldn't say that I'm a big fan of all fantasy creatures... just the dragons

I concur with cupcake, I think dragons are pretty much the only fantasy creatures worth folding.

I would say insects are rather cool, but they seem to get so repetative. It seems like there are so many insect models out there.

Detailed human figures are always awesome. I've tried my hand at a simple human, but it didn't come out as detailed as I would have liked. I would post a picture, but I'm too lazy to dig out my camera from the mess in my desk's drawer.

silentmagesoul wrote:I concur with cupcake, I think dragons are pretty much the only fantasy creatures worth folding.

C'mon do you mena you don't like unicorns, pegassi, demons, angels, cerberus, Icarus, etc, etc, etc, ,etc ,etc. You are missing out

silentmagesoul wrote:I concur with cupcake, I think dragons are pretty much the only fantasy creatures worth folding.

I never said dragons are the only fantasy creatures worth folding... I meant to say that dragons are the best... I would indeed like to be able to fold the unicorns, pegassi, demons, angels, cerberus and especially the amazing Icarus model , but nothing can beat dragons

I love squirrels and llama, but modular cubes are just the best. As you've probably noticed by the 17 posts on them by me...

Dragons are fun to fold but I love Jeremy Shafer's many adaptations of pegassus.

C'mon do you mena you don't like unicorns, pegassi, demons, angels, cerberus, Icarus, etc, etc, etc, ,etc ,etc. You are missing out

I mean exactly that. Well, I might not mind folding angels and demons, but unicorns, pegassi, cerberus, Icarus, etc, etc, don't intestest me.