TECHNIQUES AND DIAGRAMS
Some advises :
-Use a support like a table, something flat and hard, with enough place on it
-Move your sheet of paper, return it, open it (for the sinks per example)
-Take your time, particularly for the precreases, as it is very important for them to be done precisely
-Use your nails, they are very useful when long for models that require very tiny folds, and they are also
good to crease the paper
-Find your tool for folds that can't be done with your fingers (examples : thin stick of wood, pens...)
-Fold in a bright area, it is easier to see the creases with light
-Be confortable, in an armchair, in the bed, on the grass,... wherever you want
-precrease before folds, even if it not said in the diagrams
-Ask for help in the forums (see the links for details) whenever you have problems
with a model
Origami techniques:
-Wet folding, which consists of wetting the paper, so that it is easier to shape and the model stays like
it is folded, check
this site for more informations.
-Crumpling, it consits of crumpling the paper, it is very useful to obtain something that looks organic.
A video of Vincent Floderer doing crumpling can be seen
here (Quicktime needed).
-To keep their model like they are, some folders put glue on them (example: Eric Joisel), so that it becomes
also more resistant.
There are surely other I don't know.
Diagrams :
I don't have any diagrams of my model, because I think that my models aren't good enough to be diagrammed,
but if I come with a nice one, I'll put it on this site.
However, I'll try on this page to put links to as many diagrams I could find on the web.
Diagrams by cathegory
Diagrams by author
Diagrams by complexity
All the diagrams in alphabetic order
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