Heteromodular origami differs from the traditional Japanese art of paper folding - if traditionally one sheet of paper was used in origami, today, from numerous paper modules connected in a simple way, craftsmen make a variety of shapes without limiting their imagination. Try to make a beautiful volumetric swan using modular origami technique.
Instructions
Step 1
You can fold a simple paper module, which is the basis of a mass of modular shapes, in a few seconds, so be patient - in order to make a swan, you will have to fold 458 modules of white paper, as well as one red or orange module for the bird's beak. After adding the required number of triangular modules, start collecting the first rows.
Step 2
Arrange the three modules in a triangle and insert the corners of the two modules into the pockets of the third module. Connect the next two modules to the resulting shape. Attach two new modules to the workpiece, and then start assembling three rows of modules at once to strengthen the structure. Insert the corners of the modules into the pockets, connecting the next rows with the previous ones.
Step 3
Collect three rows of thirty modules each and close them in a ring. You have completed the first level of the future swan. Now put the modules of the fourth and fifth row on the workpiece, and turn the resulting ring slightly, pressing the middle of the product inward with your thumbs.
Step 4
Bend the edges of the workpiece up so that the shape takes the shape of a plate with a bottom and walls. Put the sixth row of modules on the figure, closed in a ring, and then, starting with the seventh module, begin to fold the paper wings. Slip 12 modules onto the workpiece, skip two corners, and then continue to put on modules - add 12 more to complete the row.
Step 5
Add another row, decreasing each wing by one module - so that each wing of the row has 11 modules. Decrease each row of wings by one module until you reach the last module. Bend the wings slightly. At the back of the workpiece, at its widest point, make a tail, reducing the number of modules in each row to one.
Step 6
Now, out of 19 white modules, aligned with each other, make a curved neck, and fasten the last module in red or orange and point it down so that it resembles a beak. Attach the neck to the place on the workpiece where you skipped two corners. The swan is ready.
