Origami Master Cardinals Complete Illustrated Origami Tutorial

Origami Master Cardinals Complete Illustrated Origami Tutorial

There are many beautiful origami birds in Origami Encyclopedia, but a very famous bird owner, the cardinal, is very rare. The cardinal is an interesting bird that is generally red in color (even though the origami tutorial here uses blue paper). The cardinal is not an exotic bird, it is very common in our country. And its red body has also earned it another reputation, that is, the "red leader." Not only is the cardinal very beautiful, but the call of the cardinal is also very nice. Especially when spring comes, the cardinal will go to the branches and sing to court a mate. However, like most creatures in nature, male cardinals are more beautiful. The one made in this origami tutorial is a red cardinal, while female cardinals are not so beautiful. They are usually Its gray...and the sound isn't that pleasant either.

Although from the final effect, it seems that the origami cardinal is quite difficult to make, and many origami birds in the origami encyclopedia illustrations are relatively simple to make, and many origami birds are even made through patterns. It is done by matching, so it can make making origami birds easier. But the actual situation is that this origami cardinal is also relatively easy to make, especially the origami steps are clearly marked in this tutorial, so it is still very easy to make. The steps of origami are relatively few compared to other handmadeorigamianimals. In less than 20 steps, you can easily get your own handmade origami cardinal. Pick up the paper at hand and start trying now. Make it.

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1. First prepare a 28 cm × 28 cm piece of paper as the basic origami material. If you often do origami, this kind of square paper can be easily obtained. Fold the edge of the paper 5 cm inward. For the specific folding method, please refer to the origami tutorial: Handmade Origami Angelfish Origami Complete Illustrated Tutorial. Although the folding steps behind it are somewhat different from this origami tutorial, the folding steps on the front edgeThe stacking process is still very similar, so the folding operation should be easy to complete. It’s just that the previous tutorial folded two sides, but now this tutorial folds all four sides. Fold the top corner pointed by the black arrow into a small square. This is the same as the previous origami tutorial. The left and right corners of the origami model can be folded downward according to the direction and peak marks shown by the black arrows. Then fold it into a basic square shape. For detailed folding methods, please refer to the tutorial: The most important and commonly used square basic origami.

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2. At this time, turn the origami model over, and then fold the front top corner and the bottom corner upward as shown in the origami diagram. Note that the operation is in the direction pointed by the black arrow. At the same time, the creases have been marked in the diagram. You need to adjust them during the folding process. That is, you must make the folds you fold fall on the creases marked in the origami diagram, so that the final product is made. The origami effect is better. This will not cause the origami master Cardinal to become dislocated.

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3. After completing the previous step, we will get an origami style as shown in the picture. You can see that pulling up has unfolded the inside of the origami model, and we folded it into A small square appears at the top. At this time, follow the black arrows in the origami diagram and fold the two corners gathered at the bottom to the left and right sides respectively. The creases that need to be folded during the folding operation have been marked in the origami diagram. That is, fold it according to this crease. After folding, flatten the origami model.

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4. Then fold the two corners that were folded up in the previous step downwards as shown in the picture. The specific folding method is as shown in the origami diagram, but this time The fold used to fold back down is different, using the rabbit ear fold. Rabbit earsThe folding method has appeared in many tutorials in the Origami Encyclopedia and is a very basic folding method. It’s okay if you’re not very familiar with bunny ears origami. You can first pre-fold all four creases as shown in the picture. Three of these four creases are valley marks, and the other is a peak mark. The outer crease is a peak mark, and the rest are valley marks. , the bunny ears are easy to fold after pre-folding them.

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5. After completing the above folding, we can see that the two folding corners operated previously are already on the left and right sides. At this time, fold the two corners upward continuously as shown in the picture, and the crease positions are marked as shown in the picture. And pay attention to the peak marks at the bottom and the valley marks at the top, which means that the creases below will eventually overlap the creases above. This needs to be paid attention to when folding. While completing this folding, pull the fold of the lower part of the origami model downwards as shown in the picture, that is, follow the two black arrows below to pull the origami model downwards and unfold it. When pulling it apart, be careful not to affect the previously folded parts.