Quentin's photos

qtrollip · Post by **qtrollip** » August 28th, 2007, 1:49 am

Hi Edwin
Yes, of course I remember you. Thanks for getting in touch! Going to miss you guys at the BOS convention. I moved to Canada 2 years ago!
Thanks for the compliment. It just takes time, but Ill get around to it to diagram most of my stuff and eventually publish it. The BOS were gonna publish a booklet of my older stuff, but that's been going on now for about 3-4 years now and still no booklet. They have had my diagrams all along, but dont seem to get going with it. In fact, I've got a trial copy, but nothing further from their side has happened. So I think Im gonna try publish something myself. And it would then have newer stuff on anyway!
Hope to bump into you at a convention sometime!

Edwin Corrie · Post by **Edwin Corrie** » August 28th, 2007, 10:05 pm

Sorry to hear about the delay with your BOS booklet. I have a two old "manuscripts" which I never got round to submitting but which I was planning to take to Cambridge next week, and I can use the opportunity to ask what is in the pipeline. Maybe there are reasons for the delay with yours, but if they're not going to go ahead with it you could produce something yourself, as I did with my last effort. It didn't make me rich, but I easily broke even. Don't abandon the "old stuff" though - it'll be new to the rest of us.

BTW, that's an excellent Bear you posted in the other thread.

Edwin

qtrollip · Post by **qtrollip** » August 30th, 2007, 4:47 am

Thanx Edwin
The London Origami Group developed a cdrom with 10 of my designs, as well as some of their other member's. It is for sale on Paul Hanson's Sorceryoforigami page. These are my models on the cd, as well as a sheep that I don't have a photo of:

Dont worry about talking to them about the publication, I think I'll just do it myself.
Thanx anyway, talk later
Quentin

T · Post by T » August 30th, 2007, 10:42 am

These are some excellent models. I especially like the faces on the gorilla.

are any of your models diagrammed /printed; if so where??

Tim

alisher_navoi · Post by **alisher_navoi** » August 30th, 2007, 1:33 pm

T wrote:These are some excellent models.

trust me! the man's a genius, his models utilise a lot oa interesting colour changing techniques, so there is never a dull moment!

Post by **origami_8** » August 30th, 2007, 6:46 pm

Quentin and everyone else,
you can edit your posts by clicking on the "Edit"-button on the top right of each of your posts.

qtrollip · Post by **qtrollip** » November 2nd, 2007, 6:38 am

Designed Sept 2007. Single Uncut Square.

Folded from banner paper.
Quentin

Foxglove · Post by **Foxglove** » November 2nd, 2007, 11:57 pm

Your models are stunning, all of them. I am curious as to how exactly you, personally, go about designing something. Do you doodle, go from a crease pattern, how do you do it? I really want to start designing myself but I am not sure how to go about doing it.

qtrollip · Post by **qtrollip** » November 3rd, 2007, 2:14 am

Hi Foxglove.
Thank you for the compliment. Well, it's difficult to explain how I design something. Henry Ford wouldn't have been able do design a car if someone before him didn't design a wheelbarrow and before him didn't design the wheel. Catch my drift?
So when I started designing, it was all from the basic bases. The cupid, for instance (diagrams somewhere on this forum), is from a bird base. I have numerous designs from the basic bases.
My first breakthrough with some more complex origami came with the design of the Crucifix (picture above). I did by no means have the knowledge to come up with a base for it. So I looked at the different flaps needed for a Crucifix (ie. number, length and distribution). I then went to my origami books and looked at models with flaps that fit into these criteria. Robert Lang's "Praying Mantis" from "Origami Insects and Their Kin". So I had the base and just had to do the folding and doodling until I came up with an acceptable end result.
Now some might call this "stealing". And that is their opinion. My opinion is that I used a pre-existing base to fold something totally unrelated to the original model. I would not use a pre-existing base to fold a model of similar subject. It was ironic though, that it was a PRAYING Mantis base used for a Crucifix.
Anyway, so some designs are from "stolen" bases. That gave me alot of confidence to tackle more complex designs. I have designed alot of models from bases that I came up with, to find out later that those exact bases have been used by other folders. An example is my "Border Collie", which uses a similar base as LaFosse's "Toucan". This, however, I don't see as a stolen base, as I came up with the base on my own.
Some of my designs are from looking at internet photos of other designers' models and trying to fold it. Examples are my "bat", which i designed by just looking at a photo of Lafosse's "Bat".

And Shafer's "Swiss Army Knife"

Now I design my own bases. It starts of simple, and then I "add" paper by drawing a CP and then inserting the extra bits I need. For example the "Black Bear" has the same base as the "Polar Bear", but with pleats added for the toes.
I cannot say that Robert Lang's book "Design Secrets" has helped me much, as most of that stuff is way above my head. It is agreat book though!
I use basic geometry to find reference points, I don't use a reference finder.
I like to look at a photo of the subject that I'm about to design, to get a better feel for it. Hence designing the "Stripper".... Only joking.
And so, by the way, most of the time, while designing something, it resembles something else better. So I often aim at designing one thing and end up with something totally different. Like the design of the "Stallion", which was supposed to be an "Atlas" (The guy carrying the world on his shoulders).
I hope this helped
Quentin

Foxglove · Post by **Foxglove** » November 3rd, 2007, 3:13 am

Thanks for such a prompt and detailed response. This is motivating to know that some of the same things I am trying to do have worked so splendidly for you. I too have tried reading through Design Secrets, but lots goes right over my head too. Once again your designing is superb, keep up the great work.

qtrollip · Post by **qtrollip** » November 3rd, 2007, 4:46 am

Cape Dwarf Chameleon. Designed April 2002. Single Uncut Square.

Quentin

qtrollip · Post by **qtrollip** » November 20th, 2007, 5:23 am

Howling Wolf, designed 15 Sept 2007 from an uncut square.

Detail of the feet

I think it is Unryu paper. Got it the weekend in Vancouver. Great to finally have some decent thin, strong paper. This Howling Wolf was dry-folded.

qtrollip · Post by **qtrollip** » December 28th, 2007, 7:43 am

Panda Bear
Designed on Christmas Day 2007. Folded from a single uncut square of origami paper.

Quentin

p@ · Post by p@ » December 28th, 2007, 12:17 pm

Panda is beautiful , have you a panda`s diagram ? please send me paolo@o2.pl , thank`s

qtrollip · Post by **qtrollip** » December 29th, 2007, 7:30 am

And then the obvious follow-up to the Panda Bear... the Teddy Bear!

Quentin