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
Phishing - 32x32 Grid
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
Phishing - 32x32 Grid
Phishing is a cyber crime that typically involves baiting people with malicious emails. Here, instead of an actual fisherman doing the phishing, it's a siren, as sirens were known for using song to lure sailors to their deaths. This is by far my most complex design to date.
Designed: 08/21/25
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Gallery layout credit to Boice Wong.