Introductory To Origami: How-To Swan

Historians argue that folding paper was invented right after the invention of paper by Ts'ai Lun of China in A.D. 105. But, the paper was introduced in Japan in the late sixth century by Buddist monks, which brought along paper folding.
Folding a paper sounds simple enough, but making something original is where the challenge appears, but to the Japanese, the creator's eye for form, structure, and proportion makes the animal, with every crease or modifying the sequence of another animal can make a whole new beast.

I, myself have not done origami in a long time, so I struggled a fair bit with some of the steps. But as a heads-up, this can be proven challenging or very simple.

(I will not be using the origami language for it is very confusing sometimes.)

This was originally a 23, now reduced to 19 step-by-step instructions on how to fold one of the many, many animal folds. A swan.

Step 1: Grab a square sheet of paper,

which then you will fold in half, 

to get a triangle.

Step 2: Fold the corner (right angle)
along the diagonal. Repeat by folding
it behind also.

Step 3: Open the paper into a square again
then fold the flaps you made to the middle.

Step 4: Then you fold the triangle up, make
sure that the triangle is in line with the crease
between the 2 sides.

Step 5: Fold down of the triangle
at around halfway down. Then unfold.

Step 6: Fold at around half of
the bottom section

Step 7: Fold the whole thing in half.

Step 8: Move the triangle that is sticking out
a little bit down. It is ok to make new
creases to be able to do this.

Step 9: Fold each "wing" up to the diagonal
and crease firmly.

Step 10: Fold the bird in half, this is
to make the head and neck of the swan.

Step 11: Fold the wings up along the crease
in the photo. (I struggled a lot with this step
and had to get help from my sister).

Step 12: "Flip" the tip then fold it back.
Like fold around the neck.

Step 14: Open the neck and fold it against
the body of the swan.

Step 16: Fold about 1/4 of the neck
pointed forwards.

Step 17: Fold around 3/4 of the head
you've created backward then 

Step 18: Fold the entire thing flat.
(Just to simplify the step).

Step 19: Fold the head out, doing
the same thing you did in step 14,
but this time on the neck. 

Cont. of Step 19: Fold the wings down while the
"bump" in the middle stays upright.

Lang, Robert J. The Complete Book of Origami: Step-by-Step Instructions in Over 1000 Diagrams. Dover, 1988.