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Doberman, by Park Jong Woo

This one's a special model, serving as two different "test run" firsts for me.

Part one was testing a better way for me to neatly make the largest sheets of tissue foil that I can without it being a wrinkly mess. My original method was awful and prone to errors, but my new method worked almost flawlessly, here. This square was 17.5" all around, which is the biggest sheet that I've ever been able to create and cut out without any major setbacks (my puffer fish was roughly the same size, but the quality of that tissue foil was DEFINITELY not as good as this one was).

Part two was a test with my new LED light box (my old one that I used in this shot from years ago required external lamps to use, which I no longer have), which I got specifically for photographing my origami models. Up until now, all of my model photos were shot either on my bed in a setup of black sheets, pillows, and blankets, or between the pages of a big sketchbook for white backgrounds, all being illuminated only by my phone's flashlight. This light box comes with both of those background colors, and more. The lighting is just inherently better than what I'd been working with this whole time, too.