Princess Celestia

Designed and folded by me from 18" square of white Kozo (mulberry)

Here's my take on folding the best princess.

I had always figured I would eventually fold an alicorn, but knew it would be tricky. There are always a bunch of features I tell myself to build into a design whenever coming up with an original model, and the final outcome is usually a compromise on what I want, and what I am able to do. However, I got lucky with this model and actually ended up with some extra details. When I was allocating paper to the specific parts (4 legs, head/hair, tail, wings) I actually ended up some extra paper on the legs and a bunch of extra paper around the chest area. These I managed to fashion into shoes and a necklace though the necklace turned out to be a bit larger than expected due to paper layers (I'll try even thinner paper if I ever fold this again!). The mane and tail, I tried to mess with as little as possible; I wanted it to look flowing without too many extra creases detracting from the cleanliness of the model. Lastly, I always felt Celestia's large wings were often one of the most prominent features about her and wanted to recreate that here. Therefore a decent chunk of paper was given to that area and with some pleating and curving of the ends, I achieved large feathery wings.

I chose to use white mulberry paper as it had a soft fiber texture that I felt would go well with this model. Additionally, I always felt Celestia would look good as a pure-white model, and so instead ignored color changes for making the details look the way I wanted.

Crease pattern here: [link]