Giant Snowflakes 12

Lots of fun with circles this time around. Didn't turn out quite how I was thinking it would, but still enjoyable.

Here is the pre-unfolding pattern.

Medium Snowflake

I was going for a spiky snowflake, but it didn't quite work. I was tempted to cut off the little spikes, since I don't think they fit, but decided to leave them on.

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Giant Snowflakes 10

Another giant snowflake to decorate the front windows of our house.

Xacto Knife Snowflake 8

This one is from 2011 again.

2010 Snowflakes 07

This is the snowflake the most recent giant snowflake I posted was based on. If you compare then closely, the centers are nearly the same.

2010 Snowflakes 06

2010 Snowflakes 05

2010 Snowflakes 04

2010 Snowflakes 03

2010 Snowflakes 02

2010 Snowflakes 01

One of the recovered snowflakes from last winter that's been lying around the house, but wasn't photographed.

Giant Snowflakes 9

Home for Christmas break and free from exams, I saw all the pretty snowflakes I made last year and wanted to imitate one of their styles. So, I made another detailed giant snowflake. Took me a little under an hour to finish sketching the design and cutting out the stencil (from which I would then trace the design onto the paper to be cut as I went to minimize smudging of the lead)

In progress photos with time stamp. Giant complex snowflakes take... awhile. But the end result is so beautiful!

I choose you Charimander! And Charmeleon! And Charizard!

In progress image. Note: this snowflake took well over two hours...

The snowflake all cut out but not yet unfolded.

And the final product:




As soon as I decided to make a giant pokemon snowflake I wanted to make this one. Charizard is easy to identify in silhouette so I wouldn't have to go in with that painful detail line work that I had to for Venomoth. Also, I really really really wanted to have an evolving pokemon growing outward from a pokeball center. So, yeah, I made this one and now it's just up in our dorm's stairwell.

Giant Snowflakes 8 - Service Auction Snowflake 2

Another item up for bid at the service auction was one giant snowflake in which I'd incorporate the pokemon of the buyer's choice. This one is of Venomoth.

Details:



I stencil first for more complex snowflakes. This is the final version of Venomoth that I came up with. I tried my best to make sure he wouldn't be mistaken for Butterfree.

Giant Snowflakes 7 - Service Auction Snowflake

As part of the dorm service auction (auction selling off various services such as do laundry, a date, make a home-cooked meal etc, all to raise money for a charity) I opted to sell some of my snowflake making. One item for bid was a giant snowflake, like those in the stairwell, for the buyer's own.
However, as I had now gotten my xacto knife back from home AND had restocked on giant paper... I decided to take the skills I'd learned making that little snowflake and apply it to the large scale. For an idea of size, this is hung up on a mini fridge in this photo.

Xacto Knife Snowflake, detailed

I decided to try smaller lines because I was working with a smaller piece of paper-part of a text for one of my classes. Turned out pretty cool in the end.

Dragonair Snowflake

December is Pokemon profile picture month on facebook. For some reason, staring at the curvy lines I was sketching for a snowflake, I realized it it was awfully similar to the curves of the Dragonair pokemon that was currently my profile picture. I'd made image snowflakes once or twice before (I made one with a swan, that I seem to have lost) so I set about sketching the little guy out and this is the result. And the beginning of so much more...

Scissors Snowflake 4

Xacto Knife Snowflake 7