Dragon Throne

My brothers and I sometimes build sand sculptures when we vacation in South Padre during the summer. In 2008, I had the idea to build a Dragon Throne sand sculpture big enough for my sons to actually sit in, and I made this origami model to show my brothers what I envisioned. We ended up scaling down the size, and Steven added a broken, cap-sized boat, but the basic layout remained the same - the upper-half of a dragon flying up out of the sand . This design is a modification of Charles Esseltine's Flying Dragon. I re-proportioned the base so that the head is larger which also had the side-effect of shortening the wings and making them wider, which I thought was better suited for the throne-arms than the original wing proportions. I also used the part of the paper that was the tail to create the box for the seat.

Design date: July, 2008

Paper used: A single un-cut square of tissue foil.