Gargoyles are statues that are designed to convey water from a building’s roof. The water would usually run through a channel on the back of the gargoyle and out through a spout in its mouth.
These gargoyles are made out of paper to using them to discharge water is probably not a good idea.
Nonetheless they look quite awesome and I’ve seen enough origami gargoyles now to make this post.
We’ll start this post off with this imposing gargoyle by Tong Liu.
Gargoyle, Designed by Hoang Trung Thanh and Folded by Tong Liu
Instructions not available
Here’s a great little gargoyle design by Andrés.
Gargoyle, Designed and Folded by Andrés Lozano
Diagrams available from Andrés Lozano’s website
Here’s a very tiny version of Alessadro Beber’s gargoyle. I definitely don’t think I could fold something like this so small.
Gargoyle, Designed by Alessadro Beber and Folded by Xu Daniel
Diagrams available in the Origami Tanteidan 20th Convention book
This is an updated version of Andrés Lozano’s design.
Gargoyle 1.1, Designed and Folded by Andrés Lozano
Instructions not available
Here’s a larger version of Alessandro Beber’s Gargoyle and you can really make out all the amazing details in the design.
Gargoyle, Designed by Alessandro Beber and Folded by Анатолий Кириченко
Diagrams available in the Origami Tanteidan 20th Convention book
José Anibal Voyer designed this great little gargoyle mask.
Gargoyle Mask, Designed by José Anibal Voyer and Folded by Rui Roda
Diagrams available in The Book of Folded Paper Masks
Here’s another fantastic gargoyle mask design from Tom Defoirdt.
Gargoyle Mask, Designed and Folded by Tom Defoirdt
Instructions not available
This is Hoàng Trung Thành’s gargoyle design folded incredibly small by Xu Daniel.
Gargoyle, Designed by Hoàng Trung Thành and Folded by Xu Daniel
Crease pattern available from Hoàng Trung Thành’s Flickr
Here’s a great traditional looking gargoyle that you could totally see perched on the corner of a roof somewhere.
Gargoyle, Designed and Folded by Thong Nguyen Nguyen
Instructions not available
Andrey Ermakov’s gargoyle is definitely one of the most impressive designs I’ve seen. It’s folded from one single sheet of paper and this one took him 15 hours to fold.
Gargoyle, Designed and Folded by Andrey Ermakov
Crease pattern available from Andrey Ermakov’s Flickr
Here’s another great version of Andrés Lozano’s gargoyle.
Gargoyle, Designed and Folded by Andrés Lozano
Instructions not available
Tran Trung Hieu designed this fantastic gargoyle that definitely looks like something you could see on the corner of a roof.
Gargoyle, Designed and Folded by Tran Trung Hieu
Instructions not available
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Alessandro Beber has also designed an absolutely fantastic paper gargoyle.
Gargoyle, Designed and Folded by Alessandro Beber
Crease pattern available from Alessandro Beber’s Flickr
Here’s another view of Alessandro Beber’s gargoyle folded by a different artist.
Gargoyle, Designed by Alessandro Beber and Folded by Andrew Sohn
Crease pattern available from Alessandro Beber’s Flickr
This is the earlier 2.1 version of Alessandro Beber’s origami gargoyle.
Gargoyle, Designed and Folded by Alessandro Beber
Crease pattern available from Alessandro Beber’s Flickr
Here’s a fantastic gargoyle design by Hubert Villeneuve that he designed for an origami challenge.
Gargoyle, Designed and Folded by Hubert Villeneuve
Instructions not available
Here’s another excellent gargoyle mask design.
Gargoyle Mask, Designed by Rikki Donachie and Folded by Rui Roda
Diagram available in BOS Magazine #243
Our final model for this post is this incredible Gargoyle by Andrey Ermakov. He created this as part of a contest to honour the great origami artist Eric Joisel who passed away in 2010.
Unfortunately this model didn’t win the contest and I can’t imagine what the winning model must have looked like.
Gargoyle, Designed and Folded by Andrey Ermakov
Crease pattern available from Andrey Ermakov’s Flickr
Which one of these paper gargoyles was your favourite? Let us know in the comments and be sure to check out these artists on Flickr as well.
