Joshuaorigami's old gallery

joshuaorigami · Post by **joshuaorigami** » June 27th, 2010, 1:17 pm

crab of which will be in my upcoming book!

joshuaorigami · Post by **joshuaorigami** » June 28th, 2010, 3:53 pm

crab refold but with smaller paper - 20x20cm - finished result is 5cm-5cm

joshuaorigami · Post by **joshuaorigami** » July 1st, 2010, 4:27 pm

bengal cat
designed and folded by me
30*30 cm square

NoahRatcl · Post by **NoahRatcl** » July 1st, 2010, 5:14 pm

joshuaorigami wrote:thanks for the compliments!
sorry, but i have given out the the maximum number of diagrams for the giraffe to the test folders, but if you want, you could test fold the next diagrammed model which will probably be the walrus. ok?

would you mind sending me the diagrams? I'd love to test fold the walrus! I really like it!

joshuaorigami · Post by **joshuaorigami** » July 1st, 2010, 5:29 pm

i am actully diagramming my crab now instead of the walrus, but once the walrus diagrams are complete i will send them to you through pm

BluePaper · Post by **BluePaper** » July 1st, 2010, 5:32 pm

alright I've been looking through this gallery for maybe the past day or so, and although you have certainly improved since you first began posting, it doesn't really seem like you've bothered to take much of the advice given very seriously. If you truly wish to become a better folder, then you are going to need to be able to accept the suggestions and criticisms of other and apply them to your work.

so I suppose in a perhaps futile attempt to once again persuade you, I must present some suggestions and critiques of my own, quite a few of which have already been mentioned by others.

Stop using tissue foil. ESPECIALLY for final drafts of your models. It takes considerable skill and diligence which you have yet to show in order to make tissue foil look presentable. Otherwise it will always bring rather wrinkled models. and for the few times you should use tissue foil, use a MUCH more even distribution of glue when making it. Spray glue, as Sunburst had previously said, should work rather well.

No more mushing for getting your 'folds.' This is far more apparent on your tissue foil models and it has to stop. It may get the job done(sorta) but it looks awful and you want your models to look nice, don't you?

Take your time when folding. Make absolutely sure each fold is aligned perfectly before making the crease. Precision is a vital part of complex origami and also a vital part to make your models look nice. Some origami folders can spend hour after hour working on a single model. It isn't about how fast you do it. It's about the final result.

Be more Patient in designing. This is an important point. Looking at many of your models I can't help but see all the points where they could be improved or tweaked to get a better result. Spend more than 1 day designing something. For many folders, they spend weeks even months and sometimes years designing just one model until it has reached their desired result. Constantly try and look for ways in which you could improve your model and make many rough drafts to test these ideas

Learn to do more shaping on your models. I can barely count the number of times I saw legs on your animals that were literally just straight, unshaped flaps. Adequate shaping is a must and it is often a very important part of making a finished model look nice. I suggest going back to doing simpler models that emphasize more on the use of shaping and work on those until you become more accustomed to it.

I hope my sentiments have not fallen on deaf ears. Please take the things that I, as well as others before, have said to heart. We aren't trying to insult you, we're trying to help you improve.
And once again, I'm not trying to insult, but I would refrain from the ideal of publishing a book so soon. your models and your designs are far from perfect and you have quite a ways to improve before I'd really want to see a book of yours published.

But I don't mean to sound disheartening. You certainly show promise and you show more than enough ambition to vastly improve. But I feel like it'd be a better idea to keep that dream in mind until you've become a better folder and that dream of a book is a more realistic goal.

so once more, I hope you can take my words and learn from them as I feel you have the potential to become a great folder

...and I suppose I would be remiss if I didn't ask.... I can't help but notice that quite a few of your designs seem suspiciously similar to the designs of others that I have seen before. Your recent "bengal cat" for example, seems vaguely like you took Komatsu's tiger and just changed the head and body a little. May I ask how similar the designs are?

joshuaorigami · Post by **joshuaorigami** » July 1st, 2010, 5:41 pm

thanks for the comment blue paper

i will try my absolute best to take this on board when folding.

about the cat: the bases for the cat and tiger are totally differant but provide similar flaps but at different lenghts, but the only thing that was taken from the tiger, was the the tail, but i added more stripes.

Razzmatazz · Post by **Razzmatazz** » July 1st, 2010, 6:35 pm

BluePaper wrote: ...and I suppose I would be remiss if I didn't ask.... I can't help but notice that quite a few of your designs seem suspiciously similar to the designs of others that I have seen before. Your recent "bengal cat" for example, seems vaguely like you took Komatsu's tiger and just changed the head and body a little. May I ask how similar the designs are?

As close as they seem I have questioned that before, I don't think he will tell you fully how similar they are if you're asking him if he borrowed a design.

If you had copied a painting and someone asked you why it looked so similar to this other famous painting; would you tell him that you just copied it?

Not accusing you of anything Joshua, just bringing up a valid point. I brought up the similarities in Koh's Rhino as with Joshua's earlier though Blue Paper,
and until we actually see diagrams and can compare them with other models we can't really say that he might of copied them. Although they do look quite similar, the tigers I mean.

joshuaorigami · Post by **joshuaorigami** » July 1st, 2010, 6:40 pm

i use my own original bases for each of my designs.
if i use a different base created by someone else, i will definatly mention it.

BluePaper · Post by **BluePaper** » July 1st, 2010, 7:00 pm

well of course razzmatazz, but questioning him is better than saying nothing at all isn't it? I had seen that you had brought this up before as well, but that shouldn't really stop people from asking again later :B

But yes. Until diagrams are seen or a crease pattern is created, we cannot be 100 percent sure, but I don't see why we can't give him the benefit of the doubt. He's seemed rather honest about most things in the past, so I trust him for the time being.

joshuaorigami · Post by **joshuaorigami** » July 1st, 2010, 7:16 pm

yeah, please ask me anything that you are unsure of.

joshuaorigami · Post by **joshuaorigami** » July 3rd, 2010, 1:48 pm

beetle deisgned and folded by me

king crab designed and folded by me

joshuaorigami · Post by **joshuaorigami** » July 3rd, 2010, 3:43 pm

breton horse by nicolas gajardo henriquez
1 uncut square of tracing paper

sheep by roman diaz
1 uncut square of tant painted brown on 1 side

Trouble · Post by **Trouble** » July 3rd, 2010, 5:13 pm

to the using of same bases as other creaters i am almost sure that your zebra base is from Komatsu's tiger

BluePaper · Post by **BluePaper** » July 3rd, 2010, 5:26 pm

uh. why does your beetle have 8 legs? ._.

and I see it looks like you've tried to do a little shaping on the horse there. It's not perfect, but at least its a start. what you need to do is continue to shape the form until it matches more with whats shown in the diagrams or in the book. shaping is an important part and shouldn't be just roughly done.

but its good to see that you're making the effort