For my paper lantern, I had two designs. One was an "R" and the other was sort of a "C", my two initials. I repeated them over and over alternating them both. To get the shadow in the first image, I had light coming from multiple places. I really liked how in the second photo, there was a shadow of an R in the center of the cylinder. For the "C" shape I folded two of the curved lines up, and left the other two folded down.