Today I am showing you a bit of a different papercraft commission I was making. And as you can see, it's a papercraft of a so-called »Amabie«. Amabies are youkai or legendary sea beings in Japanese folklore that are half Mermaid and half Kappa looking, I guess you could say. They have long beak-like faces and bright-colored scales on their body. They are apparently harbingers of either very good harvests or a great calamity, but as the commissioner says they are actually suppose to bring very good fortune and people use them to bring them good luck and protect them from evil.
The original design of the Amabie was designed by “Action Produce Company RE-act" (Twitter @ REact555) and my papercraft was made as a gift to them by the commissioner, so the picture you can see is the original drawing of the design I had to make into 3D. The picture is also colored by some kind of crayons probably, that is why the color of the reference picture has that effect, and I also did the same effect on the papercraft texture, so I think it looks 95% the same as in the picture.
The papercraft itself is unfolded to around 20 cm and has 11 pages to print. The size is very big, so it should be pretty easy to make, since I also made sure the design is as easy as it can be to assemble. The papercraft consists of a colored original Amabie and a draw-in black & white Amabie as well, since the commissioner wanted to have a variant where you can draw and color it yourself. She has 2D 2-sided hair out of the 3D head part, so the hair can be bent in a wavy pattern like in the original design, so she drags her long hair on the floor behind her.
Along with this papercraft I was also promised pictures of the finished original colored Amabie, so I will show you these when they are ready. And MAYBEEEEE I also have something planned for the draw-in black & white papercraft of all of my supporters/watchers as well…
In any case stay tuned for more infos of her, I hope you like it and happy crafting~
***This is a paid commissioned papercraft. The black and white draw-in part is avalable for download on my Patreon page - for official supporters only. The papercraft cannot be bought or downloaded anywhere else. For more info, please visit my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts***
If you are interested in a paid commission, or have any questions regarding my commissions and the general process, you can read about those here:
https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/journal/Antyyy-s-Papercrafts-COMMISSIONS-860689433***
UPDATE:
Here you can find the finished papercraft, assembled by Kevin N. :
https://sta.sh/01lzqlspusjj
https://sta.sh/021r2a82yepv
https://sta.sh/01sc0f0z2o0r
