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Published: 2005-03-14 11:28:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 10465; Favourites: 122; Downloads: 786
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Not anotomically accurate, but I think it looks pretty cool
From a big square of Japanese foil paper (60x60cm roughly). The front claws came from 2 corners of the square, hind most appendeges from the rest 2 corners, the middle appendages from the center of paper, making them the thickest. The head and mandible from one raw edge while the antennae from the center of paper. I am too lazy to draw the creasing pattern
Comments and suggestion to improve the overall look of the model are welcomed!
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hi!your work is featured in my journal,hope it's ok
have a good day!
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Wow nice model!
I wouldnt mind if youd post the steps mabe?
This is cool!
you should make like a colour sceme or texture on the praying pantis too!
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Haha... I would love to try this...
Do you need a huge piece of paper to do it though...???
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Is this wet-folded? I'm just curious because of the shine. It's very neat, I love Praying Mantis'!
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lol how cool i usedta be a HUGE mantis geek. and i guess i still kinda am. i noe EVERYTHING ther ista noe about mantises and this is da shit!! great job!
i think it wuld look better w/o the antennae tho. they look lyk bunny ears xP
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You may know a lot about praying mantis' but apparently you don't know much of grammar..
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I've never seen an oragami praying mantis before. How original, how unique. How did you get the idea to do this one? I like how slender the legs are, and the front-view of the head - it looks so real! Femals spiders also usually eat the male after mating (that is, unless the male can get away fast enough 
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Never? When I fold one out of tissue foil (my American foil one is crappy) I'll put up some pics. It's not as good as this one, but it works.
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Nice work. This one looks like it took sometime as well.
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I was trying to fold something like this from a book.. instructions were not complete I guess.
Great job!!
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my favourite insect!! and it's quite well reproduced, considering the complexity of the origami. i'd love to have the creasing pattern for this one, even tho I don't think I'll make it (anytime soon).
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Wow.. your pieces are simply - amazing! I don't know how you do it!!
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praying mantis's are one of the few insects that i think are actually pretty. you've done a good job on portraying one here. again, amazing origami work. i kind of like that it's a bright red. makes it look more festive.
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Thank you
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It looks very well made, i don't know much about origami but you seem very talented at it
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Thank you very much 
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this is spectacular!
it looks very anatomically correct to me.
it has a very mantis-like stance/pose.
that intense red paper would be very good if you were to make a lobster.
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Hehe... lobster, yes that is what I should try to make
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OH MY BOB! That is so incredibly awesome!!! just so awesome! and realistic. it looks like u grabbed a prayin' Mantis, painted it red, shined it up with glossy paint, and then called it origami. great job!
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Haha.. thank's that is actually what I did
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This has to be one of the most interesting insect origami designs I've seen. It's quite lifelike, if not completely literally accurate. The antennae look really thick in profile, but I'm not sure there's really anything you can do about that... on the whole, though, it looks really good. Maybe you could make the next one green like the real thing? That'd look neat, and maybe some people would think it was a photo of a real mantis. -..^
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Thank's
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Holy shit, AND you have a praying mantis! They are my favorite insect!
You are so gifted. I'm honored I even get to see your work.
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Thank you
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The femal mantis don't eat always do you know this? I read this in a book, the femal eat the male is she have hungry, but if not she don't. Anyway! I like this little art! I see the others also, very nice!
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Ic... I always thought she eat the male all the time. Thank's for the info and the comment
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the female only eats the male during the act of mating, because bizarrely, the male can't ejactulate with his head attached. I guess it's just practical to eat the headless body.
I won't go into the mating practices of some bees, as that's almost more stomach wrenching, ^_^;;
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You have some very interesting comments there. I created a bee (well hornet to be more exact) origami, I'll post it up later and you can tell me about their mating practices
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Wow
And shiny, hehe =]
=_=" I don't understand how you can be so good at origami ><
The paper looks really cool
Love your mantis!!!
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Thank's very much for the comments
The paper is folded then painted, that is why it is shiny, because I picked up the wrong paint, I meant to use flat red
Actually in this model, I try to make it look seamless, simple looking, but to achieve that there are lots of work to be done
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^^ You're welcome
O...folded then painted ^^ Oooo, heehee, wrong paint
*nods* It does looks simple looking O_O" Despite all the confusing work you did inside it O_O It must take ages to make one model O_O" lol =] Wooooow
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^^ Yeah =] Best to leave it =] I like it that way, haha =] (Crazy idea but paint half of it o_O" Er, maybe not <<")
=_=" Then I wonder what I am then if you're models are average XD XD XD ^^ *pats* You're very good =]
Japan >< Soo goooood >< and manga >< and food >< and cute stuff >< and shopping >< n other stuffies >< I'm gonna go there in the future, hahaha, when I save enough money n when I can get a job n stuff (neh, ages to go <<" only 14 not old enough to get a proper job yet ><
Waaaah, I wanna go ><
n Hong Kong, I wanna go there too. ><
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Hm.. I dunno also haha... I can simply paint flat red above the shinny one but I prefer to leave it like that ... scare to ruin the already ok model
Thank's 
Hmm... why all the good stuff come from Japan, anime, origami...
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Finally we get to see your avatar!
I like it a lot, specially the fact that you've managed to make it really slim, just like the real one. the medium legs must have been a bit diffult to fold due to their thickness at that point...
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I aprove very much of this. What I'd like to see is animated mating rituals
>D
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Hm... that can be too cruel. I watch one on Discovery, the male will eventually be eaten alive after the mating process
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Yes, exactly >D
I actually bought a prayuing mantis book the other day (along with snake, cockroach and spider) when a store nearby me closed down, so I will let you know when I do some mantis art. They are a beautiful entrancing alien-like species
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They are the coolest insect I can think of. The predator of the other insects
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