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Before you read on: ITT: Guy needs complete beginners help.

Good evening /po/. I know ye hate all this beginners help stuff but posting can't hurt. I posted this in the early hours of this morning, but no replies. Not the exact wording of it, but same idea.

So I'm a part time lurker round these parts and have always had a great interest in Papercraft, Origami in particular, but never had time to do anything about but, now I do. So I have a couple of questions in which I would ask you to answer. (I am a complete beginner, laugh if you will, I would)

1) Do I necessarily need Origami paper to start, and if so, whats a good size, or should I just get various sizes?
2) Do you know of any, actually good websites or books to read, anything I have found has just been useless really in terms of complete beginners. (On bases in particular)

I think that should do it for now. Any help is much appreciated and thanks in advance.

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>> Th0ughts !!1Jl/uNq62Zm
1) Do I necessarily need Origami paper to start, and if so, whats a good size, or should I just get various sizes?
While it is not NEEDED, it is always nice to have. You can also make your own.

2) Do you know of any, actually good websites or books to read, anything I have found has just been useless really in terms of complete beginners. (On bases in particular)

All beginners need to know are what some simple bases are (water bomb base, etc) and the different kinds of folds (Mountain, valley, squash, etc). Just google on these to find out more.

After that, it's pretty easy! Good luck ;).
>> Anonymous
Origami paper itself isn't crucial - what is is that you get exact squares. Copy paper will work, but it's all the same color. If you can manage squares of wrapping paper, that's ok too.

Of course, it helps to find a place that you can buy it - if you've got a michael's or something nearby, see if you can find their weekly 40% off coupon and it's pretty cheap with that. Alternately, if you're in a decent sized city with a japantown/chinatown kind of place, look for something liek an ichibankan or something. There's one in El Cerrito, CA that'll sell you 300 sheets of 75x75mm paper (about 3 inches) for a buck, something like 50 sheets of 150x150 for a buck, and then patterned stuff for a buck, too.
Really, if you're in the bay area, if you're in the east bay El Cerrito, Ichi Ban Kan - CHEAP origami paper.

As far as websites, there are a few good ones.

http://www.giladorigami.com/swami/swami.html

is alright, if you want themes.

A better one might be
http://origami-club.com/en

Because it's got controllable animations, and graded difficulties.

Failing that, Go look at your library at the 736 ish region in the children's section.
No, it's not creepy to wander through the children's section if you're looking for a book.