Halloween Origami Instructions - Crooked witch - Andrew hudson

In this video I'm going to show you how to fold a crooked witch designed by Andrew Hudson. It's a fantastic origami model especially for the Halloween time, I think. These are two folds from different sized paper. This one I folded from a 15cm square, so a square sheet of paper that has a side length of 15cm or 6in on each side. Then the completed model will have a width of about 7.5cm or 3 inches, and a height of about 14cm or 5.5in. This bigger model I folded from tissue foil. There's a video on how to prepare this kind of paper yourself. Here I used a 24cm square to then get a height of about 23cm and a width of about 12cm. In inches, that'd be a 9.5in square that results in a model that is 9in high and 4.75in wide. In this video I am not going to be using these strong colors, because it makes it hard to see what's happening. I'm going to be using this beige-brown for the hat and white for the face. So let's get started. We're going to start with the color side up - the hat-color side up - and then crease the diagonal by bringing point to point. Ensure that each corner is accurate. And crease. Unfold, then rotate. Now pinch the center by again bringing point to point. This time just press the paper flat in the middle. Like this. Now we're going to flip the paper over Now we're going to take this lower left edge and start a crease in this point. Align this edge with that pinch mark we just made. We do not need to crease this all the way through, but only up to that diagonal we already creased. And unfold. Same thing on the other side. Unfold, rotate, and repeat on the other half of the model. Now we have all the precreasing done for the fish base. Now pinch these two corners. You can also make a valley out of them in each of these areas. And then pinch these together and push it together and then right here - push that down, like this. Let me show it to you again, maybe differently. You basically do a rabbit ear on one side - let's crease that to one side - and do a rabbit ear on the other side. And crease that to one side. And then fold in half. The next step is a bit easier if you do a small precreasing. So let's do that first. What we're going to do is right in this bottom half we're going to add two creases by aligning this edge with that central crease. Like this. You can see that these are the big creases we added before, and the new ones are in the other direction. Then again, you only need to crease up to the creases we created before. Same thing on the other side. And now, let's collapse the fish base again. Now you can see we have these two precreasing from the step we just made. We're going to open the model on each of these creases - like this - which makes the model 3D. Next we're going to take this point and just push it down. It will land right on that point. And then add a crease here, add a crease on each of the sides, like this. Now we're going to fold up the area for the mouth. - this area. It's not quite set how much that is. I'd say not quite a quarter. So if you imagine... Use this line for a reference and bring the point up by about a third. It doesn't matter too much, really. Now we're going to form the sides, so let's rotate the model a bit. You've got a long crease here, we're going to fold in along that crease. Then raise the layer again and squash-fold. So we're going to go inside these two layers, and push one side open again. Then push on this crease to squash it down. We don't want to sqaush symetrically. Usually you'd squash so that this crease is in line with this parting. But this time want to squash it so that the edge we create is in line with this edge in the back. So you can see this is in line with the other edge. Same thing on the other side. Crease, make it perpendicular, open the two layers, and squash them. Now this time you can either try to get these egdes in line or you can take this point in the center to determine where to squash. I prefer making it this way round, so that these two points meet exactly. But it doesn't matter too much. Now we're going to form the mouth. So we're just going to open this a bit and take out this point again. Close the model again, and now fold along these creases we just made. There's a small crease right here. Right now it's a valley fold. We're just going to make it into a mountain fold. Like that. Same thing on the other side. Then you get this not quite regular pentagon. Then just push it down. Note that we're not creating any new creases here. We're just changing the direction of the creases. Then you can take this top point and fold it down a bit. I'm going to start the crease in this point right here. And I'm just going to tilt it in a fashion that I like. You can add this step in the end, but I'm going to finish that mouth now. Now you've got this small, wicked smile there. Next we're going to form the hat. For that we're going to take this top flap. We're going to fold it down so it's in line with this parted edge. You can go just slightly further if your two points don't meet to hide that area. Mine looks quite ok, so I'm not going to do that. If you do, really go just slightly over. Else it might change the further steps. Now we want to form the hair. Let's worry about the hat in a second. For this we're going to open this up a bit. and you can see there's one layer here, and there's another here. Just take one layer and push it open as far as it will go right here. Push it over, and then start closing the model again and we're going to try and get this line here to be quite horizontal. There's no absolute accurate and correct way of putting this crease, but this is about it. Same thing on the other side. Now we're going to do quite a hard step. You may want to skip it - you can if you like. But bear with me and give it a try. There's two things that are going to happen now. First, right now this can unfold quite easily again. Second, we want a small color-change on the hair. So for that we're going to unfold what we just did and then make a closed sink. So, we're again going to ignore this one layer. Now we're going to try and change this area to be inside without separating these two layers. So, let's try that. We're going to open right here, you can see we're going inside where everything is white. You can see this small corner right there. And we're going to push that inside. So let's try that. Push that inside, I'm trying to really show it to the camera. Hope you get that, see that, I'm just pushing it in. I'm flipping over the paper here so that it does not rip. Then go along this crease we prepared before. Then push the model flat. Now you can see the difference. First, it's locked, you can see that, big difference. Second, there's a nice color-change here. So let's try that again. Unfold, and then go between these two layers. Push in that point in the top. Go along the crease you just made. I might want to undo this again. There's no shame in undoing a fold when you feel it's not quite going the right way. I'm going to turn this around a bit. It's always good to reposition the model that you feel you can do the step in an easier fashion. Before it felt akward, because I was using different hands than I usually do. Then it gets harder, of course. Practice makes it easier. Then press it flat, and you again have that nice color-change and lock. Once we've managed that step you can be proud of yourself if you did it. It's a bit tricky, I admit. We're now going to form the hat. For that turn over the model. Then take this long edge. It's another slightly tricky step, but I'm sure you'll manage. Take this long edge, align it with the center. And crease. You'll see that this does not work all the way. There's a lot of paper tension, we're going to use that paper tension. I'm going to go inside here to crease as far as I can go. This is as far as I can go. Now we're going to push this paper to that side, this to that side, and this corner right here - you can see: that corner from the hat - that we're going to push down, too. So take three fingers and push on this corner in the top. There will be a triangle that you squash into place. This is a spread-squash. So you can see - that's the triangle. Once you have that you can just crease it into place. Let's try that again. First start by creasing here in the top. Extend the crease as far as it will go. Then push inside, push outside, and push down and push on that corner. Get that triangle into place. This is the back of the model, so don't be too concerned with making this a nice clean fold. I actually like making it a nice, clean fold, but sometimes it's really not that important. And then just squash it flat, and make strong creases. You can see I didn't work very accurately here. The first crease already was a bit off. Then the hat has a nice shape. Now we need to finish the head and the face. For this we're going to take these flaps here and fold them back. We're going to do this in such a fashion that the crease starts right where - you can see this layer? - right where that layer stops, that's where we're going to start the crease. Then just get an angle that you like for the hair. It doesn't matter too much. Just precrease. Crease all the way in the back, too. Then I'm going to match that crease on the other side. I prefer matching creases right away if I want to get a symmetrical feel. This time I'm going to use the back to ensure that the angle is pretty much the same. Then unfold and now we're going to do an outside reverse fold. For this - you can see a pocket here - and we're going to take our finger and you can see a crease right here. Take your finger, so that it's almost at the end of the crease, but not quite. Then push open the paper, and then push it to the other side. Reverse the crease you made before. Then do the same on the back. Then your outside-reverse fold is all done. Let's try that again on the other side. First unfold, then go inside the pocket putting your finger not quite to the crease. Then push over to the other side making the direction of that crease go the other way. In the back the crease is already in the right direction. You flip that over, and then just press it flat. Like this. Now, just for final shaping, she has a quite rectangular chin there. Of course, it's not rectangular, but quite a rough chin there, so we're going to take these small corners and fold one behind. So you can see that this is the difference. And match that on the other side. This also somewhat locks the mouth to the model. Before it used to unfold a bit here. With those two creases it doesn't anymore. And then your crooked witch by Andrew Hudson is all done.