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Origami | The Art of Paper Folding
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Looks really cute, the head is perfect. One tiny detail I noticed in your picture: the feets tip should be a inside reverse.
I had to try it myself and got the same square sticking out at the back, no idea how to fix that. But it was nice how I just did some seemingly random folds and suddenly I get the finished head (once I figured out step 32)
Now my dog finally has a friend to play with! (If anyones interested, I'll try and find the instructions)
aww, look how cute the dogs are! and omg, you're absolutely right about the feet! I guess I was so excited about finishing this piece that I only looked at the lines and not at the instructions in the last step... whoops, but luckily I can still fix that.
And yeah, step 32 was tricky for me as well, especially because it seems like you have to eyeball the position of the folds since there is nothing that points to why the folds are like this. It also helped me to do the valley fold first, then kind of pinch the paper where the mountain fold needs to be and slip the top part of the pinch under the bottom part. But once it clicks in your head and you're able to finish the piece, it is so worth it! I agree, the last step where you reveal the head is really awesome!
I'd really appreciate it if you could make another post where you show us the instructions for your other dog once you find it! Peterpaul Forcher apparently has published other origami dogs as well (I've seen diagrams for a German Shepherd Dog and I think a Pitbull?) I haven't folded them yet, but maybe in the near future? Would you be interested in that?
I love folding almost anything just for relaxing after a long day, but I'm mostly interested in simple folds that I can memorize but still look nice. I used to fold a lot while studying and attending lectures or sitting in the train, where you can't do anything complicated. As for more advanced stuff, I want to learn how to do wet folding, I got a book on that recently but got discouraged by all the stuff that I need for it.
Yes, it's always confusing esp. if you don't know whether you should align the fold or just eyeball it, but in this case I just confused valley and mountain folds and then later when I tried to finish the head, it didn't work because the fold of step 32 was in the way, took me a minute to figure it out :D