Asymmetric Flower Popup

I’ve been away on a family reunion, during which I barely had any time to draw. Here is one piece, though, that I managed to make. The challenge was to create an asymmetric pop-up composition using mostly V-folds. Not sure it’s my favorite composition for pop-ups, but it was fun to see how it came along.

Here is a little video clip of the popup:

Here you can see how this works with a couple of V-folds facing each other (although they do not have to be part of the same piece of paper):

Tangles are Moonpie, Mooka, Fescu, Icanthis, a little Purk and Tipple (all Zentangle). Here’s a close-up:

Here are some points of view of the pop-up:

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