An extended gallery of my original origami designs. They are in chronological order by the date designed. Please contact me before distributing or teaching these models.

Index

Walking Red Flag - 18x18 Grid
Hanging up the Mask - 10x10 Grid
Ship in a Bottle - 18x18 Grid
Ermine - 14x14 Grid
Sky’s the Limit - 18x18 Grid
Sinking Feeling - 18x18 Grid
Stargazing - 16x16 Grid
Whitetail Fawn - 22.5
Fish out of Water - 14x14 Grid (Partial 28ths)
Hanging by a Thread - 20x20 Grid
Even Littler Dragon - 6x6 Grid
Mandrake - 16x16 Grid
Sea Serpent - Grafted Fish Base
Mermaid - 16x16 Grid
Phoenix - Grafted Bird Base
Trophy Hunting - Fish Base
Fairy - 16x16 Grid
Wikipedia Sword and Shield - 16x16 Grid

Walking Red Flag - 18x18 Grid

Some things are better left avoided, and if you're lucky, they'll tell you to stay away. Most of this model is pretty straightforward to fold, except for the arm holding a smaller red flag.

Designed: 07/17/25

Hanging up the Mask - 10x10 Grid

Comedy never looked so grim. On a related note, properly shaping this model is a nightmare, probably because I'm bad at masks.

Designed: 06/28/25

Ship in a Bottle - 18x18 Grid

I suppose it's technically only half a bottle, but if I made the whole bottle, then you wouldn't be able to see the ship.

Designed: 06/02/25

Crease pattern of origami ship in a bottle.

Ermine - 14x14 Grid

Is it a stoat or an ermine? Never could figure out the difference. In any case, the design is excessively difficult for something so simple.

Designed: 05/28/25

Sky's the Limit - 18x18 Grid

In the same vein as Sinking Feeling, this is meta origami with a non-standard model. I wanted this model to focus on youthful imagination, as I know I would have loved this as a kid. Also, yes, it does fly.

Designed: 05/10/25

Crease pattern of origami plane and pilot.

Sinking Feeling - 18x18 Grid

Meta origami models are so fun, but they typically focus on cranes or blank pieces of paper. There are very few models that incorporate the traditional boat, so I designed a model that had two. The title is a double entendre for the sink fold.

Designed: 09/20/24

Crease pattern of origami boat and sailor.

Stargazing - 16x16 Grid

Alternate title: the universe observing itself. Origami seems like a fitting medium for this idea, since both the observer (telescope) and the universe (night sky) are folded from the same sheet of paper. Designing a piece that is its own background was an interesting challenge.

Designed: 09/06/24

Crease pattern of origami telescope and night sky.

Whitetail Fawn - 22.5°

Designed as a celebration of the past summer, I took a slight departure from my previous subjects and paradigms. The result is this simple baby deer.

Designed: 08/18/24

Crease pattern of origami whitetail fawn.

Fish out of Water - 14x14 Grid (Partial 28ths)

A bit of an absurdist take on the phrase, I wanted to use my humanoid design skills to make the fish vaguely anthropomorphic. The partial 28ths can be treated as open sinks during the folding sequence, though I still recommend precreasing them. The umbrella uses a similar structure to the one in "Walking in the Rain" by Chen Xiao.

Designed: 08/14/24

Crease pattern of origami fish holding an umbrella.

Hanging by a Thread - 20x20 Grid

Won the July 2024 Origami-Dan design contest. To some degree, I was inspired by Banksy's "Girl with Balloon", which informed my color choice in the final fold.

Designed: 07/24/24

Crease pattern of origami person hanging by balloon.

Even Littler Dragon - 6x6 Grid

Designed at the OUSA 2024 convention. After seeing that Boice Wong was selling diagrams for his Little Dragon (8-grid), I wanted to see if I could design a dragon even smaller. This one is very efficient, but if you're looking for a fun, low-grid origami dragon, just go buy his diagrams.

Designed: 07/20/24

Mandrake - 16x16 Grid

A cute, little asymmetric root vegetable. This design focuses more heavily on the mythical interpretation of the plant, but you could just as easily shape it to look like a potato.

Designed: 06/07/24

Sea Serpent - Grafted Fish Base

It took a while to nail down the final structure and proportions, but it was time well spent. The reference for the grafts on the top and left of the CP is 3/16ths the width of the paper. Finished the design on the same day as my mermaid.

Designed: 05/11/24

Mermaid - 16x16 Grid

I suppose this is is technically a merperson, since I didn't aim to imply a particular gender with this design. The trident makes the structure very asymmetrical. Finished the design on the same day as my sea dragon.

Designed: 05/11/24

Trophy Hunting - Fish Base

What started as a sketch of an elephant head turned into something much more. Trophy hunting as a broader concept is a contentious subject with a lot of philosophical nuance. Admittedly, this piece doesn't really engage much of that discourse; it's a paper elephant head.

Designed: 05/01/24

Crease pattern of origami trophy hunting.

Phoenix - Grafted Bird Base

Designed for university graduation, I wanted to render our school's mascot using origami. The braided tail uses the same structure as Satoshi Kamiya's phoenix. The references for the CP are that the corners of the bird base lie on the 1st and 5th grid lines of an 8-grid.

Designed: 04/28/24

Fairy - 16x16 Grid

I received a lot of negative feedback on this design, which was ultimately for the best. I've used the criticisms to improve subsequent designs.

Designed: 04/06/24

Wikipedia Sword and Shield - 16x16 Grid

I don't claim this design as my own. On the Wikipedia page for Crease Patterns, there's this unfinished CP of a swordman. It was added by the user Nicoguaro, but I couldn't find the original shaping, so I took a crack at finishing the CP and folding it myself.

Found: 03/29/24

Crease pattern of origami sword and shield.

Gallery layout credit to Boice Wong.