How to Make an Origami Dragon

Video Transcript

"I'm going to show you today how to do a dragon. My name is Robert Segundo, and I'm going to show you how to do my dragon. The one I learned from a long, long time ago. What we're going to do is we're going to start off with a bird base. We're going to take our bird base, and if you don't know how to do this I've got other videos out there that will show you how to do it. And you're just going to take your bird base and pull it flat like so where it's almost 3-D to this tent shape like this. What we're going to do is kind of just basically squash fold it down like that and dog ear it like so. So it's this side, you can see it's already pre-creased, this side is going to be my tail. So to do this we're going to take and just fold our corners over to where they line up with the center line we already have here. And then just take our feet. Which these will be the feet and fold them back down. Now if you flip it over, you can see we have this diamond shape here, and this diamond shape is going to be for the head. So what we're going to do is we're going to fold our tail in half like so but as we're doing that we're going to reverse fold our diamond shape up to where it comes something like that. As you can see, there he is with his tail and his legs. What we're going to do with the head is we're going to open it up, fold it into the center like so, fold it over, there we go, straighten this up just a little bit so it doesn't look so bad. Now what we're going to do to fold the head is we're just going to fold it over like this and inside just kind of squash fold like so. So, fold it back again and then fold it up forward again, and then fold it back again one more time. As you can see, I'm just going to twist this, I shouldn't, it should be folded correctly. And as you can see we've kind of got the mouth shape going on here. What we're going to do is we're going to fold the legs down, to where they're just pointing straight down like so. And then what we're going to do is we're going to open them up, reverse fold, dog ear, whatever you want to call it fold there, fold them back up like so. Then we're going to take and fold down little claws on the inside by doing the same thing, just open it up and squash folding them. If you take your time, they won't look so bad as mine do right now. Now what we're going to do is we're going to take the tail and just going to open it up and do kind of the same thing. We're just going to reverse fold it. What you want to do is angle it to the same angle as your feet so it will actually stand up. Open the reverse fold, this part of the tail again and then do the same thing just to kind of give it a little, just a little character there. Now that we've got his head we're just going to take and just kind of squash fold it down like so. There he is. The dragon, and just play around with it, have fun, and Enjoy!"