It’s 50cm by 50cm not 7cm.

One uncut piece of paper

Took me about 8-9 hours to fold. Took around ten years and thousands of hours to learn and practice the skills required by folding other origami models.

I have used Unryu treated methyl cellulose for origami and double tissue. Both are exceptional.

So legs or any appendages come from points on the paper with a radius that give each of the limbs length. These points can be on the corners, edges and anywhere on the surface. This beetle is like a fifth of the size of the starting sheet so most of that paper goes to the legs.

So this kind of origami is known as box pleated which means that the starting square is made into a grid through folding and unfolding, then the crease pattern (which is basically a map of all the folds) is creases onto the paper using the grid points as references. The folding requires no math as I got the diagrams from a book. Designing requires some math but it can be done without math.

The diagrams are in the book “Origami Masters Bugs: How the Bug Wars Changed the Art of Origami”.

I don’t have a video of myself folding it but there are origami time lapse videos of people folding complex out there. It took me 8-9 hours I think.

I used Alios Kraft paper. It’s around 15 grams per square meter. It’s durable, holds creases well and I’ve used it for hundreds of models.

And thank you for your praise.