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| The S-class hero cyborg. In cute form. |
One Punch Man is a popular series about various heroes that protect the Earth from monsters. Genos is one of these heroes, and he is a very serious cyborg with deadly incinerator weapons in his arms. It just so happens that the paper quilled marquis shape is perfect for crafting Genos' messy anime hair. Read on; you won't be disappointed!
What you will need:
-Glue
-Toothpick
-Pen
-Scrap white paper strips
-Background paper (I used blue 8" x 11" computer paper)
-Ten 11" grey strips (for the arms, hands)
-Nine 11" black strips (for the eyes, pants, shoes)
-Five 11" navy strips (for the shirt, arms)
-Two 5.5" yellow strips (for the eyes; I just ripped an 11" yellow strip in half)
-Twenty six 11" brown strips (for the hair)
-Two 2.75" brown strips (for the eyebrows; I ripped an 11" brown strip in half, then each of those halves in half)
-Two 22" peach strips (for the face)
-Seven 11" peach strips (for the ears, face)
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| 11" is 27.9 cm, and 22" is 56 cm |
To get started
See the video tutorial, or follow along with the steps below:
Step 1: Use the toothpick to roll a 22" peach strip. Make a loose coil, then glue to secure. Pinch this coil into a long thin triangle, so that the top of the triangle is flat and wide. This is the chin.
Step 2: Roll an 11" peach strip, and expand into a loose coil. After gluing, pinch the coil into an equilateral triangle. Glue this triangle onto the top center of the flat triangle you made in step 1.
Step 3: With two more 11" peach strips, make loose coils and pinch into squares. Position the squares like diamonds, and glue one square on the left side of the equilateral triangle, and the other square on the right side.
Step 4: Next roll two 11" peach strip into loose coils. Pinch them into long thin triangles (almost like a horn shape). Position these triangle with the pointy tip facing down, and glue the tip to the outermost side of the squares you made in step 3. The lower half of the triangle should match up with the entire side of the square, and the upper half of the triangle should extend above the square.
Step 5: Roll a 22" peach strip into a loose coil. Pinch into a rectangle, and glue this in between the two triangles you made in step 4. This completes the face. You should have something that looks like this:
Step 6: With two 11" peach strips, make medium sized coils. Pinch them into half-circles. Position the half circle so the round side faces outward. Glue one on the leftmost side of the face, and the other on the rightmost side of the face. These half-circles are the ears.
Step 7: Now roll one 11" brown strip into a medium sized coil, and pinch into a teardrop. Roll two 11" brown strips into tight coils, and pinch them into teardrop shapes. These will be the top part of Genos' hair. Simply place the teardrops with the pointy part face up, and orient them however you like.
Step 8: Using ten 11" brown strips, make loose coils and pinch into marquis. Arrange the marquis however you like to make more Genos hair. There is no right or wrong way to do this, so go crazy!
Step 9: For the hair above the face, roll three 11" brown strips into loose coils and make the following shapes: triangle, square, and triangle. Glue these shapes on top of the face. Here's what I came up with:
Step 10: Continue adding more brown marquis shapes to create hair. I added seven more marquis shapes, two of which were on top of the ears.
Step 11: Take an 11" brown paper strip, then fold and rip in half. Now fold and rip both pieces in half, to get a 2.75" strip. Roll that strip and make a loose coil, then pinch into a thin crescent. Glue this on top of the face to make eyebrows.
Step 12: Keep adding more brown marquis to finish the hair. I added three more marquis shapes.
Step 13: Roll an 11" navy blue strip into a loose coil. Pinch into a trapezoid, and glue the smaller flat top side of the trapezoid to the pointy part of the chin. With another 11" navy blue strip, make a very loose coil and pinch into a rectangle. Glue this rectangle below the trapezoid.
Step 14: Next roll an 11" grey strip into a tight coil. This is the center of the shoulder. Roll another 11" grey strip into a medium sized coil, and pinch into a rectangle. Then wrap this rectangle around a pen, to make a curvy shape, and glue the rectangle around the tight coil, to complete the shoulder shape.
Step 15: Repeat step 14 to make the other shoulder, and glue both shoulders to the left and right sides of the navy blue trapezoid. To make arms, roll two 11" grey strips into medium sized squares, and glue one square below each shoulder.
Step 16: To make a forearm, roll an 11" navy blue strip into a medium sized coil. Pinch into a rectangle (where one end is thinner than the other). Place the thinner end on the bottom, then wrap and glue an 11" grey strip around the navy blue rectangle, making sure not to wrap the top of the blue rectangle. Keep folding and gluing the grey paper strip around the blue rectangle.
Step 17: Repeat step 16 to make the other forearm, and glue both forearms below the grey squares you made in step 15. Also add another large navy blue rectangle below the center blue rectangle. For hands, roll two 11" grey strips into loose coils and pinch into duck feet. Glue the duck feet below the forearms (so that the pointy parts of the duck feet are face down).
Step 18: With an 11" black strip, make a loose coil and pinch into an equilateral triangle. Glue this below the bottom most navy blue rectangle. Now glue a thin white paper strip on top of the navy blue rectangle and black triangle. Use scissors, or rip extra white paper strips, then glue these paper strips on top of the grey shoulder pieces and the sides of the navy blue trapezoid.
Step 19: Roll two 11" black strips into very loose coils, and pinch into rectangles. Glue these rectangles to the black triangle. Finish the legs by rolling two more 11" black strips into medium sized rectangles, and glue those below the first pair of rectangles.
Step 20: Now roll two 11" black strips into medium sized coils, and lightly pinch them into ovals. Glue these ovals below the smaller black rectangles you just made. These are the shoes.
Step 21: Use two 11" black strips and make loose coils. Pinch these into marquis, and glue them on top of the face. These are the eyes.
Step 22: Roll the two 5.5" yellow strips into loose coils. Pinch them flat, then wrap them around a pen, to make them extra curvy. Glue the resulting crescents on top of the black marquis eyes. The yellow crescents are the irises.
Step 23: Glue a small pink paper strip on top of the face, to complete the mouth.
Congratulations! You have now paper quilled Genos from One Punch Man!
What can I do better?
You can use a different color paper strip for the mouth. To better control the size of the upper and lower torso, use 22" strips of navy blue and black paper, instead of 11" strips. While this design was for a chibi Genos, you could increase the sizes of all paper strips and attempt to make a more realistic looking Genos as well. No matter what variation you choose, the marquis shape is an easy way to paper quill Genos.