Such a concept as origami was known to people many centuries ago. This is an ancient art that teaches how to create all kinds of interesting figures using paper. In the modern world, this occupation has slightly changed and has today more diverse types and methods of folding paper.
An origami dragon, beautifully executed from paper, can become a talisman for the coming year, the symbol of which is just the same name. Such a gift can be presented as symbolic, because in Chinese mythology, the dragon is a good start.
Let's try to figure out how to make an origami dragon on your own.
Step-by-step manufacturing instructions:
Buy a set of colored paper in a regular store that sells office supplies. Now on sale special kits for making origami. They include special rice paper. If you manage to get such a set, then the creative process will become a little easier.
- Decide what color your origami dragon will be, based on this, choose the color of the paper. Take a sheet and cut a square out of it. Draw a simple pencil on the wrong side of the rhombus. Do this from each middle of the sides of the square.
- Bend the corners according to the lines of the rhombus. This must be done on the wrong side. Your angles must necessarily converge strictly in the center of the square.
- Turn over the structure that you got, and, taking the pencil again, draw only two lines from two opposite corners to a point, it should be two or three centimeters below the common neighboring corner. Starting at the intersection of two lines, draw a line to the end of the corner. Bend the edges on the same drawn lines.
- Bend the small beak from this angle. Your origami dragon will adorn this makeshift beak.
- Now draw a diagonal strip with a pencil, which will be between opposite corners. Then we mark two more lines emerging from the center of the resulting square. Bend these corners and make sure that they converge in the very center, then bend the resulting figure diagonally.
- Bend the formed corners in the opposite direction.
- Now bend up and try to simultaneously pull out a piece of paper, the one that remains free. Bend the formed ears back and front of your future origami - the dragon is almost ready.
- Unbend wings now.
- Now it should turn out a rhombus with a cut one side. Now draw the lines, they will go from the dissection point to the nearest obtuse angles.
- Bend the bent parts inward. It should be a bird. Make a beak at the double end, it will be part of the head.
- Bend the resulting sharp protrusion located on the wings, inward, and the wings, respectively, up. Now the origami dragon needs paws, and they need to be made from the remaining lower bifurcations.
- To give beauty to the figure, make bends on the tail and wings.
- Your origami dragon is ready! If you have already collected paper figures before, then you will spend about 50 minutes on this model. If this is your first job, then the production will take you a little longer.