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16-Aug-2009 - Complaints and problems with this tutorial have been showing up on other sites, and I have only been finding out by accident. If you have complaints or problems with this tutorial, I ask that you please CONTACT ME. If you have the time to address issues regarding my tutorials on other websites, you have the time to contact me in some way as well (or beforehand) to let me have some input on the thing I spent time making.

Contacting me is not difficult and I can probably resolve whatever the problem is. If you need a version that is printable/higher res/etc. I can send it to you or upload something here. If you need help with steps, post a reply here and I can try to help as I have done for others with all of my tutorials. If you have complaints of any sort, contact me via whatever method suits you best. For those who are just visitors and can't post on this site, my e-mail address is right on my profile/main page here, easily accessible to anyone.

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27-June-2009: I have youtubed this since youtubing my unicorn design seemed to help a lot of people. Here's the playlist: [link]

It starts with a FAST overview of the bird base. In the comments for that video, I have linked to slower tutorials that beginners may find easier to follow.

Also, optional prefolds to add a mouth to the dragon: [link] (these must be done BEFORE forming the bird base)

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And however many months/years later and sufficiently many requests...HERE IT IS.

It should give enough information for people that have had a bit of folding experience. There is one fold that is very counter-intuitive for most people (step 12).

I appologise for the non-standard folding arrows and such. At some point I will need to redo this as diagrams instead of photographs so I can show cutaways and such, and then I will be able to sort out the arrows better than I was able to using MS Word.

A note unfortunately: seems I forgot to include the detail on how to fold the "arm" part of the wing over to mak it visible from more than underneith. It's not very hard, and I don't always do it depending on the type of paper. If you use foil paper, it works very nicely. Thicker paper...not so much. Folding the arm over may simply undo itself on difficult papers. In the final image, you can see that I only folded it halfway to emphasize the shape of the arm without flipping it all the way.

Usage Policy
To me it's not complicated, so I would expect that other people have happened across similar to nearly identical patterns. However, I did develop this myself with no significant references (other than a standard crane deisgn) and therefore hope that my choice of details is at least somewhat unique. If you follow this tutorial to create a dragon and wish to post the result as artwork either here or elsewhere, please credit the design you used to create the dragon.

Description
16-Aug-2009 - Complaints and problems with this tutorial have been showing up on other sites, and I have only been finding out by accident. If you have complaints or problems with this tutorial, I ask that you please CONTACT ME. If you have the time to address issues regarding my tutorials on other websites, you have the time to contact me in some way as well (or beforehand) to let me have some input on the thing I spent time making.

Contacting me is not difficult and I can probably resolve whatever the problem is. If you need a version that is printable/higher res/etc. I can send it to you or upload something here. If you need help with steps, post a reply here and I can try to help as I have done for others with all of my tutorials. If you have complaints of any sort, contact me via whatever method suits you best. For those who are just visitors and can't post on this site, my e-mail address is right on my profile/main page here, easily accessible to anyone.

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27-June-2009: I have youtubed this since youtubing my unicorn design seemed to help a lot of people. Here's the playlist: [link]

It starts with a FAST overview of the bird base. In the comments for that video, I have linked to slower tutorials that beginners may find easier to follow.

Also, optional prefolds to add a mouth to the dragon: [link] (these must be done BEFORE forming the bird base)

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And however many months/years later and sufficiently many requests...HERE IT IS.

It should give enough information for people that have had a bit of folding experience. There is one fold that is very counter-intuitive for most people (step 12).

I appologise for the non-standard folding arrows and such. At some point I will need to redo this as diagrams instead of photographs so I can show cutaways and such, and then I will be able to sort out the arrows better than I was able to using MS Word.

A note unfortunately: seems I forgot to include the detail on how to fold the "arm" part of the wing over to mak it visible from more than underneith. It's not very hard, and I don't always do it depending on the type of paper. If you use foil paper, it works very nicely. Thicker paper...not so much. Folding the arm over may simply undo itself on difficult papers. In the final image, you can see that I only folded it halfway to emphasize the shape of the arm without flipping it all the way.

Usage Policy
To me it's not complicated, so I would expect that other people have happened across similar to nearly identical patterns. However, I did develop this myself with no significant references (other than a standard crane deisgn) and therefore hope that my choice of details is at least somewhat unique. If you follow this tutorial to create a dragon and wish to post the result as artwork either here or elsewhere, please credit the design you used to create the dragon.