elf shoe

Working with paper was fun times but at the same time it was frustrating that something so flexible and thin is hard to make curves with. Sometimes the paper just wouldnt do what you were trying to make it do, and it would crease and fold in weird ways. Im sure if we worked with paper more or were origami masters this probably wouldnt of been a problem. For my next paper shoe i decided i wanted to make an elf shoe. I first made the base, and then drew a smaller version inside of that leaving about 1 cm perimeter. Then i tore it around the perimeter at areas where it needed to bend and folded it upwards. I then a curved plane to the perimeter for the back of the shoe and then the rest i overlapped and futzed around with until it worked. Then to get the curl i crumpled up the pape and shaped it. I Made the buckle by folding a bunch of pape together and then cutting out the center. Then i added the fluff part with a lot of shredded pape, also at the end of the curl. Im gonna post pics once i get a hold of a camera because i dropped mine off of a 200ft cliff when my pal pretended to push me off. yeah that sucked.