Chibi sunny and anime

Hi guys, just a short post today as I'm knackered.

Chibi sunny went really well- wasn't sure what to expect as I'd never been to an anime convention before but I got a really positive response, sold a few items and have had some orders since!
My current project after this is to make some different anime and manga characters as I noticed it's specific characters that people are wanting. I started on togepi (from pokemon) last night which I've been meaning to do for ages and spent a lot longer than anticipated on it!-the egg shell patterns are so hard to get right in origami which is quite frustrating but it's getting there. Not going to do anymore today as I need a break but will hopefully get that finished this week and post up a picture soon.

Even though thne temptation to fold paper is great I won't do anymore today- I need a break!

British crafters and blog request models!

My share on the british crafters page yesterday managed to get 15 likes which I'm pretty happy with and I got a few more followers which is always nice!

If you would like a look at my facebook page the link is https://www.facebook.com/debstuff1?ref=hl#!/debstuff1

The old name for my page was 'Debstuff' before it became 'Just So Studios' which is why that's the name of the link!

Also, I'm thinking I may do a few request/challenge 3d origami models in a couple of weeks once I've got the anime convention out of the way, so if you would like to challenge me to make something then comment on this post! I'll pick my favourite/the most possible and post photos of the results in a few weeks!

Dragons

The weather otday is terrible so the museum is pretty quiet. Decided to make the most of this by folding the paper for another dragon and actually making it!

It looks a little flat at this stage and always takes a lot of incentive to actually continue folding! I would love an origami paper folding machine to do it for me but sadly they haven't yet been invented... And so I do it myself. Anyway after a few hours folding and making the paper turns into this:

I changed the design of the dragon's body this time as the head was bigger than the body on previous designs. So the body in this dragon starts with an 8 base, gradually goes out to a 12 and back to an 8 again. I think it looks a lot better :)

Oh also, I got a share on the british crafters facebook page this morning with my strawberry dragon! I've been shared on there a few times but it's always exciting when it happens! If you haven't seen their page before and are a crafter (or even if you're not) then it's well worth a look as they post a theme each day which you submit a creation for from which they pick the best to go on their page for the day. People can then like and comment on the shares and the one with the most likes gets pinned to the top of the page at the end of the day! It hasn't happened with any of my creations yet but you never know!

Had quite an exciting day yesterday- I wasn't in work (at our museum) as I was allowed a day off but when mum and my sister got home they told me they had had someone in from the british origami society! I was sorry I missed them! but looks like I may be joining- apparently they also said that I should exhibit/demonstrate at the convention in Birmingham next year!- so watch this space!
Also, here is a picture of the Geisha I made the other day- since then I have made another one in red.

 

Anyway, time to go back to making- sold one of my dragons yesterday that was intended for the anime convention so had to make up for that earlier by making another one and still have to catch up with my "model a day on workdays" target as I made nothing yesterday!- time to fold paper for an origami cake methinks!