| Glenn's Dragon |
This is my model. It is an intermediate level, I think. You should know the blintz, bird base, reverse bird base, and sink folds. 6x6 inch patterned origami paper, and a 8x8 inch origami paper were used. |
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| Anita Barbour's Dragon |
This is fairly easy design, with a few careful steps, built from a stretched bird base. 6x6 inch origami paper was used. |
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| Klaus Weidner's Dragon |
This is another relatively easy (intermediate) model built from a blintz and bird base. 6x6 inch origami paper was used, which was a little too small for head and foot detail. |
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| Eileen Tan's Flapping Dragon |
A simple-looking intermediate model, which is a bit tricky to fold. It has wing-flapping action by pulling on the tail, which is its charm. 6x6 inch origami paper was used. |
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| Marc Kirschenbaum's Rearing Dragon |
This is a high to intermediate model referenced here from Joseph Wu's page. 6x6 inch origami paper was used, and this was a little too small for the fine details in the diagram (which weren't really needed anyway). |
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| Darren Abbey's Dragon |
This is the simplest dragon I've come across, for beginners. You almost don't need diagrams, though you must know a bird (or preliminary) base. It's a rearranged basic bird fold. 6x6 inch origami paper was used. The first is the pose from instructrions, the second is my rearrangement. |
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| Charles Esseltine's Flying Dragon |
This is a popular, advanced model. I found it difficult. Somewhat of a purist, I refused to use foil or tissue paper. After one unsuccessful effort, I resorted to a 30x30 inch paper cut from a building plan set. That's almost 20 times the size of any other model here (see photo below), and even then there were problems with spread and tears from overfolding folds on folds. If you are just out to have fun, don't do this one. That said, what it lacks in elegence of execution, it makes up for somewhat in the end result. The feet are weak but the rest is admirable. |
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| Joseph Wu's Eastern Dragon |
This is also a very popular, advanced model, and it is elegently designed. All the creases just seemed to fall into place. I enjoyed folding it, and will do it again. As with the previous dragon, I went for a large recycled plan paper, 8x40 inches. This made for a pretty large model, as shown in the group photo below. |
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| Marc Vigo Anglada's Snake Dragon |
This advanced to medium model might more accurately be called the head and shoulders of a dragon. 6x6 inch origami paper was used. Similar to the Esseltine dragon, which also had a complicated head, this model suffers from overfolding near the end. |
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| Gilad Aharoni's Dragon |
I like this fat little dragon. It was tricky to fold, but once again used a blintzed bird base, like Weidner and Kirschenbaum. 6x6 origami paper was used, and this was a bit too small for easy folding. |
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| (New Dragon) |
Do you have a suggestion? I'm always looking for great folds. |
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