Mermaid

I have little idea how I came up with this design. I was trying a simple harpoon using boxpleating, and it didn't really work out. Through a bit of doodling with the base (from the harpoon, all I added were the fingers)and I somehow ended up with something that has two arm, and then two other long flaps. These long flaps became hair, a body and a tail. I had folded a mermaid!
The only problem is that color changes don't work well with this model. I guess it's best to fold it all from green or blue paper.
The base is somewhat based on a 16:16 grid (on the sides).


The model needs quite a bit of shaping. Using this base, you get a bit of a tail, two arms and a long stretch of paper. Good luck!

Gone Whaling

Because I have been reading the book "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville recently, I decided that it might be fun to try and design a whale. I knew that I probably wouldn't be able to get anything good out of boxpleating, seeing as whales are not very detailed. I ended up using the good old kite base to fold my whale, seeing as its fairly whale shaped.
I haven't made a CP for the model, but a diagram may pop up somewhere in the near future. This model seems to be my best model to diagram so far, and I need to write diagrams eventually.
Anyways, the model ended up like this. I can't exactly say that you should end up with something like this.

Soccer Player

To make this soccer player, I just flipped over the guy doing the bicycle kick. It worked quite well, and I didn't have to spend a lot of time making a new CP. In general, its pretty much the same CP. However, the soccer player in now standing up instead of in the air. It's from the same grid as the last one, so please look it up if you can't remember.


It should take about the same amount of time to fold this as it does the Bicycle Kick. This model will certainly stand up better than the other, seeing as its a lot more balanced.

Something Else to Cover Your Face With

Seeing as I wanted to make a mask with plain old shaping, I decided to try again without boxpleating. I can't really say that this one turned out better, because that wouldn't be true, but I am still happy with the result. I decided to go with a blintz base, and I just doodled from there. Heres what I ended up with for a CP (However, I didn't design it using the CP)


Its quite simple, and I'm pretty sure that the base is all pureland. Only the shaping isn't. The main thing is to get the ears small enough, because they start out really big once you start shaping.


not a self portrait this time. I didn't have any more brown paper.

Overhead Kicking

Seeing as this month's english forum challenge is combination folding (folding more than one thing with a piece of paper), I've decided to go with something that really fascinates me: Bicycle Kicks. I have done one or two correctly, but that was out of a lot of tries. Landing would probably have to be the hardest part (at least for me) because its hard to concentrate on the ball and on putting you hands out so that you don't kill your back.
I'm not really sure that I can say that this CP is from one grid... The top right hand quarter is divided into 16:16, while the others are 16:16 diagonally. The top and bottom corners without anything in them can just be folded under.


As you can see, the CP is a bit strange. If you take the top quarter on the CP and flip it over, you would have a soccer player standing up. However, with the CP as it is, you should get something like this:

Mask

This months challenge is to fold a face or mask. This is quite a challenge for me, seeing as "you can't use boxpleating for masks".
However, I proved myself wrong today. You really can use boxpleating, and the result surprised me. I managed to get hair (you can change the length by making it a rectangle wider and folding the CP in the middle), eyes, eyebrows, a nose and a mouth that you can change the expression of. In all, the mask is quite "poseable". The expression can be sad, happy, angry, surprised, etc. as long as the expression can be made using only those body parts listed above.
Anyways, I decided to keep the model simple and go with and 8:8 grid. As mentioned before, you can make it wider to make the hair longer.


The CP folds quite small as compared to the original paper size, I'd say about an 8th. Try out some new expressions!


(a self portrait)