The Fiery Dragon

Model designed by Kade Chan. Folded from 22x22cm brown paper. Folding time ~1 hour. Diagram and video can be viewed here. 

Year of the Dragon 2012

To fill in the "missing" yearly post...

This Eastern dragon is folded from 2 pieces of square paper, joined in the middle of the body. The design is from Jun Maekawa, from the book "Genuine Origami". Time taken to fold is about 3 hours.

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Mini Dragon 2

This is another simple dragon model, by Jun Maekawa in the book "Viva!Origami", folded  from a 120x120 mm red color paper. The final model is about 80mm in lenght and looks better with legs.

Mini Dragon

This a simple dragon by Akira Yoshizawa in his Creative Origami book, folded from a 120x120 mm light green color paper.  I was motivated to fold this because one of the children who visited my origami demostration last week likes the complex dragon and I was unable to fold for him.

80 mm Dragon on a laptop

 

Comparing the nini dragon to the complex dragon