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Gen Z college student
Designed and folded December 2021
Paper: 60cm wenzhou
The origami world has many designs for knights and wizards and anime characters, but not many for ordinary 21st century people. I believe figures of this type have a bit of an extra challenge because if proportions or details are off, people will easily notice, whereas fictional characters are entirely up to the artist's imagination. I hope to make more figures of this type, but for now I've started with the most obvious place for me to start: a gen z male college student. (I happen to fit this category, but this was not intended to be a self portrait)
There are a couple interesting things about the structure of this design. The first
is that he is closed back instead of closed belly--that is, his structure is
backwards of what the vast majority of every other human figure design is made from.
The second thing, related to the first, is that the model looks complete from pretty
much any angle. Many human figure designs look good from the front but are messy from
the back because they aren't made to be seen from those angles, but because this guy
has a closed back, he still looks like a solid figure from front, back, or sides.
Grid: 40x40