Hey Rdude,
Just wanted to stop in and say your blackbird is awesome. I especially love the pose... it looks like it's doing what's called the 'wing flip', right before take off. You don't hardly ever (never maybe?) see this pose in origami birds... well done!
Red-winged blackbird
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I like the anole, especially the slick color-changed dewlap. I suggest that you freeze this one at Version 1, before you start adding the refinements.
Suggestions:
0. Just for grins, how about brown one, also ?
1. Toes on all feet
2. Smaller toes and tiny claws (!) on all feet
3. The lizards that I catch are (slow and) well-fed, so add a little fatter belly and perhaps a little more defined ridge along the spine.
4. If you can find wet-folding instructions for Michael Lafosse's frog, then you might apply the way that he shapes the head with more subtle ridges, and indications of eye sockets to your lizard.
These suggestions are a lot of work (keep you off the streets for a while), but I think that as you progress through the next 4 or 5 versions, that the details would make it a more elegant sculpture.
Great work !
- Hank Simon
Suggestions:
0. Just for grins, how about brown one, also ?
1. Toes on all feet
2. Smaller toes and tiny claws (!) on all feet
3. The lizards that I catch are (slow and) well-fed, so add a little fatter belly and perhaps a little more defined ridge along the spine.
4. If you can find wet-folding instructions for Michael Lafosse's frog, then you might apply the way that he shapes the head with more subtle ridges, and indications of eye sockets to your lizard.
These suggestions are a lot of work (keep you off the streets for a while), but I think that as you progress through the next 4 or 5 versions, that the details would make it a more elegant sculpture.
Great work !
- Hank Simon
@ Juston: Thanks for the complements! I really wanted to try and get that sort of dynamic pose that you're talking about. I'm also going to eventually try folding some other poses, like this birds territorial display where they fan out their wings and tail.
@ Hank Simon: Thanks for the critiques and complements (and thanks for helping me to remember that it's called a dewlap (I knew that at some point in time, but forgot until just now
)
I just folded a revised version of the anole out of some silver foil, and I managed to get 3 small toes on the front feet without drastically altering the design. I should be able to get little claws out of the back feet as well. I curved the sides of the lizard in a bit less to give it a chunkier appearance, and pinched the back into a rather nice spine. I do have the diagrams for Lafosse's frog, and I tried to replicate it in foil but I'm going to have to wait until I wet fold it to really try this suggestion out.
Next time you catch one of those lizards would you mind snapping a picture of it?
When I get this design finished I'll bust out some brown Hanji
@ Hank Simon: Thanks for the critiques and complements (and thanks for helping me to remember that it's called a dewlap (I knew that at some point in time, but forgot until just now
)I just folded a revised version of the anole out of some silver foil, and I managed to get 3 small toes on the front feet without drastically altering the design. I should be able to get little claws out of the back feet as well. I curved the sides of the lizard in a bit less to give it a chunkier appearance, and pinched the back into a rather nice spine. I do have the diagrams for Lafosse's frog, and I tried to replicate it in foil but I'm going to have to wait until I wet fold it to really try this suggestion out.
Next time you catch one of those lizards would you mind snapping a picture of it?
When I get this design finished I'll bust out some brown Hanji
Unfortunately, even in Texas it is about winter (70s today and 20s tomorrow !), so I don't expect to see any lizards for about 3-6 months.
Here are some pictures about the right size. Ignoring the tail, the heft is about right for the well-fed critters.
[img]http://www.saltgrassflats.com/images/gr ... 040502.jpg[/img]
(In addition to dewlap, we used to use the term "blanket")
In the old South, we had a children's rhyme, "Lizard, Lizard, show me your blanket..." but I don't remember the rest. Regardless, it usually worked, possibly by scaring the lizard into display !
The diagrams for Lafosse's frog in Advanced Origami don't have the same level of detail, as in the Video. Michael spends about 5 minutes on the Video showing how he shapes the head and eye in his wetfolded frog model. Although I highly recommend the Video for the wetfolding advice, I'm not sure that it is worth purchasing, just for the eye and head shaping technique ... but if you have a friend, nearby ...
- Hank Simon
Here are some pictures about the right size. Ignoring the tail, the heft is about right for the well-fed critters.
[img]http://www.saltgrassflats.com/images/gr ... 040502.jpg[/img]
(In addition to dewlap, we used to use the term "blanket")
In the old South, we had a children's rhyme, "Lizard, Lizard, show me your blanket..." but I don't remember the rest. Regardless, it usually worked, possibly by scaring the lizard into display !
The diagrams for Lafosse's frog in Advanced Origami don't have the same level of detail, as in the Video. Michael spends about 5 minutes on the Video showing how he shapes the head and eye in his wetfolded frog model. Although I highly recommend the Video for the wetfolding advice, I'm not sure that it is worth purchasing, just for the eye and head shaping technique ... but if you have a friend, nearby ...
- Hank Simon
Well, after several months of doing nothing but homework, I finally go around to working on the newest version of the anole. The head still needs a bit of work, but it now has a chunkier body, the spine down the back, and 5 toes on each foot. I'm kinda worried that the front legs are too short. So what do you guys think?
For a few more pictures of this, check out my Flickr site
For a few more pictures of this, check out my Flickr site
When I was a kid we would sometime go down to my grandma's house in florida, and they had a screened-in pool area (I don't know how else to describe it) and anoles would sometimes get inside, and I, being a hyper little kid, used to like to catch them and put them outside XD
But talking about your model, I'd say it looks pretty good, but the head is a little too large, and the front legs are definately too short. Aside from that it looks great!
But talking about your model, I'd say it looks pretty good, but the head is a little too large, and the front legs are definately too short. Aside from that it looks great!
It's now hot and sultry in Texas, so the anoles are out in full force, well-fed, and not too eager to scurry away. I was able to get one to pose for me in a hidden corner. He gave me the evil eye: I don't know if he thought I looked hungry... or tasty .
Except for the first one, the photos are about 1MB. Feel free to download and edit, if interested. I will delete them eventually. I can try to take other pictures, but lizards don't tend to cooperate or pose with much enthusiasm... but maybe if I buzz like a fly ....
- Hank Simon
Lizard 1 (small): http://home.roadrunner.com/~hanksimon/lizard-1.jpg
Lizard 2 (larger): http://home.roadrunner.com/~hanksimon/lizard-2.jpg
Lizard 3 (slightly different angle): http://home.roadrunner.com/~hanksimon/lizard-3.jpg
.Except for the first one, the photos are about 1MB. Feel free to download and edit, if interested. I will delete them eventually. I can try to take other pictures, but lizards don't tend to cooperate or pose with much enthusiasm... but maybe if I buzz like a fly ....
- Hank Simon
Lizard 1 (small): http://home.roadrunner.com/~hanksimon/lizard-1.jpg
Lizard 2 (larger): http://home.roadrunner.com/~hanksimon/lizard-2.jpg
Lizard 3 (slightly different angle): http://home.roadrunner.com/~hanksimon/lizard-3.jpg
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