Introductions

[phillipcurl]

hey!
for beginners? what do you want to learn? i'm sure someone here could help you out with whatever it is.

[Harpseal]

By beginner, what do you mean? As long as you're constantly improving, there's no such thing as a beginner. This is the order i started origami in (from "beginner" level)
Paper planes, Waterbomb/hat, Giraffe/flapping bird, X-wing/ basic dragon, Fiery dragon (big jump), Inventing irregular bases, My first crease pattern, Playing with bases, ryujinn 1.2 (where i am now) what sort of area are you? This is just a rough guide, not to be followed but it might help a bit.

[phillipcurl]

some advice how i got to where i am now (took over 12 years with multiple breaks)
i started out origami with the old (then new) montroll books and lang books, then i eventually 10 years later graduated to newer origami books, like the tanteidan's and satoshi kamiya's book.

if you can't afford books, then you should try to find some diagrams online, on websites like http://origami.com

[Harpseal]

I like that website, although it crashes sometimes.

[phillipcurl]

i haven't been on it in years, i have made practically everything on it 1000 times

[Harpseal]

Even the one-fold stegosaurus? I made diagrams for it. It wasn't hard. I love that model because it's so silly. The website might have been updated since then too. There's a basic model to try!

[phillipcurl]

yes, i made that before, but not 1000 times.
i like the avispa(wasp) by anibal voyer the best.

it was the first insect i made. look how much i have progressed now! (check flickr)

[Harpseal]

A long long way is the answer, if you can't be bothered to follow the link.
I like the phoenixes best, although i haven't made them.

[ruixinhuang]

I never introduced my self... so... I'm a freshman in HS. I always liked folding but never really got serious until like 2 years ago. I joined this forum to become friends with other folders, learn about better papers and get help with diagrams (with which I am really terrible at reading). In terms of origami, I am a fan of Satoshi Kamiya, Hojyo Takashi and Roman Diaz. In terms of music, I am a fan of Florence + the Machine, Janelle Monae and Sara Bareilles.

[Bon-origami]

Hello i'm daan from the netherlands and i do origami for about 6 months and still studing

Greets daan

[Harpseal]

Hi! If you are terrible at diagrams,robert lang's diagrams are very clear. Go through one of his basic books from the beginning to the end, reading all the captions, skipping to the beginning occasionally to check the symbols. It sounds boring and basic, but it'll teach you diagrams. I did that when i learnt diagrams. Fortunately, i was at a very basic level when i started, so it wasn't very boring.

[markfiend]

Hello everyone.

My name's Mark, I do web development for a living, and I have been folding for as long as I can remember. It was only ever the simple kind of model like the traditional crane, and a few others from books I picked up over the years, until I found a copy of Lang & Montroll's Origami Sea Life maybe 20 years ago.

Since then I've picked up some of what you might call "the Standard" origami books (Montroll's and Lang's books for the most part) and collected a few instruction-sets off the Internet, for models I particularly enjoy.

However, I've only really got properly into origami (as something better to do with my hands) since I quit smoking. Over the past five or six years I've been through Sea Life, Lang's Insects and their Kin (although I've never been able to fold the butterfly without ripping the paper) and now I'm working on Insects 2. I've also made most of the models in Lang's Origami Design Secrets... but not the cuckoo clock!

I've posted a few pictures of some of the models I've folded (and even one unicorn I designed myself!) on my blog. (Link in my profile)

So hello everyone. I'll probably be lurking more than posting, at least until I get a feel for the forum.

[Harpseal]

Hi! You must be really experienced then! Lurking for a while sounds like a good strategy, for a while anyway!

[Papygami]

Hello everyone! I'm 60 and I discovered the world of origami two years ago. I knew what it was like origami, but I had never folded anything other than "Cocotte" or "Pajarita".
Since I fold every day, and I love it.
I would like to learn how to create models, but good books are in English and my knowledge of English are too imperfect. So I expect that bilingual volunteers please get to work ... (for the Book of RJ Lang "Origami Design Secrets" for example) ... I would be very grateful!
(Translated message with "Google Translate")

[nanu]

Hi! I'm Inez from the Netherlands and I'm 17 years old. I started origami when I was 11 or 12. I got some origami paper for my birthday and I bought some books and that's how it started. I actually like almost everything from Japan!