Adobe Photoshop

Digital Origami began life as vector icon illustration that wasn’t going quite the way I wanted.
After a couple of hours, I decided to take a different direction for the icon, but I was left with a collection of interesting shapes, colored perfectly, for creating the look of folded paper.
The shapes were arranged by hand to create a repeating pattern. The arrangement leaves small imperfections throughout the piece giving it depth and a hand-folded look.

Based on this 2007 photo.

Photo by Christa ‘Tink’ Hanson at Greenwood Geek Breakfast

… but as a lion.

Surely this was just a camera misfire, but when rotated, it reminds me of a busy subway platform.