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Hi, my name is Andrew Stein, and i'm from Orlando, Florida. I have been folding for about 7 years, and I've finally decided to make a gallery . It will be slow moving, as I don't upload that many pics. However, I felt the need to make one... ...for some reason. Well, to start off with, here is a picture of David Brill's Rhino, and my entry for the October Challange: Man, standing on one foot, pointing a gun into the air . yeah, I don't expect it to win, but I felt compelled to enter it.



Well, feel free to give me your worse criticism .

My latest Design: Shrimp, v1.0

After a long afternoon of designing: Shrimp V2.1. This one has more back pleates, more distinct eyes, longer antennea, and more flippers. However, the design is a bit bulky....

Cool model, Andrew!

Thanks .

Currently working on: Cleric (Law enforcement people from the movie "Equilibrium").

My latest design: Cleric (the guns look a bit... ..funky, but I'm satisfied).


This one is Zu--the sumerian god that was half-man, half-bird


Finally: A European Rhinoceros Beetle (designed and folded by me).

My two latest folds. Neither designed by me , but y'all know that

Satoshi Kamiya's "Unicorn":

And Robert Lang's Bull Moose:

My latest fold: Balrog, designed by Jason Ku, folded by me:
the design is a bit bulky, so it looks kinda funky, but...

My most recent design: Rhinoceros Beetle

The antennea are a bit shorter than I would have liked, but....

I'm open to criticism

The designs are all nice, and I'm amazed at how fast you design them! For your Rhino beetle, I have no clue what the structure of it is, but you might be able to take some paper out of the head/lower horn and use it to make the antennae points longer. I also like your Zu, it reminds me of Gustpath Go's demonman
The one big thing I notice about all your models - The paper is extremely wrinkly. I have never made tissue foil before, so I can't give any tips to fix it, but I'm sure someone who has can help with that.

Haha, I modeled the shape of Zu after the Demonman! I modified Nicholas Terry's Winged Warrior base slightly for it; As for the tissue foil, the paper was smooth enough, but became wrinkled when I was folding it. I could smooth it out on the Rhinoceros Beetle, but I like the effect . Also, the points don't really allow for longer antennea; I tried shifting the point arrangment, and making the lower horn longer, but that threw off the structure completely .

Thanks for the criticism, it really helps

First fix the link to your Flickr.

I could smooth it out on the Rhinoceros Beetle, but I like the effect

Time to start not liking the effect! It took a fair bit of criticism, and some time for me to realize that too. The effect of crumply paper looks terrible in photos. Especially of tissue-foil. It also really doesn't look good in person, and can even make you look like a poor folder. There are a few times when some wrinkles are appropriate, such as for elephants, rhinos, and old people, but most of the time, you really want to try to avoid them.

Tissue-foil is a trap. It's very easy to fold, but hard to fold well. And you'll want to avoid squeezing as much as you can. Try to use true folds. At the end if you're narrowing insect legs or something, the one final pinch can be okay, but do it the same as you would with regular paper. Mashing is bad.

Cleaner folding allows us to actually see your work. With T-foil, you can generally make something recognizable. But it's really hard to judge folding quality (usually appears pretty bad), lines and form, etc.

True, tissue-foil is a trap; also true: it is easy to fold. I have recently been folding with parchment paper, and have found it actually to be better than tissue foil. I just found my roll a couple of days ago, and so I have only recently been folding with it again. And yes, I was unhappy with how the pictures turned out; wrinkling does tend to look pretty bad in photos. Here is what I just folded today with parchment paper:
Bahamut, designed by Kamiya, folded by me




And by the way: Thanks for letting me know about my signature; I was unaware that it was wrong

Here is the collapsed base for cerberus:

Aaaand here is the almost finished model (I still have to finish the back).
I shaped the heads differently than Kamiya, due to the fact that I did it with a CP rather than diagrams