Eastern Dragon, Designed by Jun Maekawa and Folded by Luc Marnat It looks like it’s eagerly expecting something. Here’s Jun Maekawa’s dragon again folded by a different artist. It almost reminds me of a Goa’uld symbiote from Stargate SG-1 which is one of the best TV shows ever… Eastern Dragon, Designed and Folded by Rodolfo Rizzo Here’s a different and very unique dragon design by Rodolfo Rizzo. River Dragon, Designed and Folded by Riccardo FoschiĬrease Pattern available from Riccardo Foschi’s Flickr Here Ryujin 3.5, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Sergey Yartsevĭiagrams available in World of Super Complex Origamiĭragon number 4 comes to us from Riccardo Foschi who designed and folded this very unique river dragon. The entire model is folded from one giant sheet of paper and that includes all the scales.

Here’s version 3.5 of the Ryujin expertly folded by Sergey Yartsev. Satoshi Kamiya’s Ryujin model is probably the most famous eastern style origami dragon. Dragon, Designed by Brian Chan and Folded by Pere Olivellaĭiagrams available in Origami Bogota 2013 I feel like this dragon needs to eat a bit more and it looks really great with that blue paper. Here’s a really cool skinny dragon design. Eastern Dragon, Designed and Folded by Eiyo Hikari It apparently took 1 week to finish and is folded from multiple sheets of paper. The head was from a set of diagrams with an unknown Japanese designer and the rest of the body was improvised by Eiyo Hikari. I absolutely love the pose it’s in and you can tell Eiyo Hikari put a ton of work into folding it. This next dragon looks incredibly life-like. Eastern Dragon, Designed by Jun Maekawa and Folded by Magaliĭiagrams available in Genuine Origami: 43 Mathematically-Based Models, From Simple to Complex To celebrate the new design this post will be all about origami dragons, specifically eastern Chinese or Japanese style dragons.ĭragons might just be my favourite type of origami and there are more incredible origami dragons out there than I can count.įirst up is this great little dragon design by Jun Maekawa. I’m loosing track of how many times I’ve redesigned this site but this time I’m really pleased with the results. We’re back after somewhat of a break with a brand new website design! I was trying to get the old design to do some things which I couldn’t figure out how to do and in the end I just gave up and redid the site again. I also totally now realize that none of these dragons have wings… Oh well, I’m not coming up with another dragon pun right now… The original post is below with a bunch of extra dragons added in throughout so check it out! I’ve decided to go back and add in a few more because there are a lot of really great Eastern-style origami dragons out there. This is an update to an older post that was kind of popular but didn’t really have that many images in it.

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