Creating an Illustrated Scrapbook

Creating Scrapbook 2

A course by Nuria Mel. , Designer and Illustrator

Designer and Illustrator. Mexico City, Mexico.
Joined April 2020
99% positive reviews (226)
3,788 students
Audio: Spanish, English
Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch

About the video: Creating Scrapbook 2

Overview

“I'll show you how to create interesting characters with another of my favorite cutting techniques and collage based on the intervention and mixing of ephemera, magazine cutouts, paper cutouts or old photographs.”

In this video lesson Nuria Mel. addresses the topic: Creating Scrapbook 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating an Illustrated Scrapbook. Design a scrapbook and learn how to use it as a creative reference for your illustration projects.

Partial transcription of the video

“CREATING THE CLIPPING COLLECTION PART 2 Alright, we'll keep building our scrapbook for our "scrapbook". Now I will teach you another of my favorite techniques that I apply in my "collages", and it's a technique of working with cuts and build characters from random things and a little more as we go by intuition. For this exercise, the first thing we will do is to take advantage now all those textures we have made from our paper collection. And for that what I usually do is to cut figures in a very random way, They can be geometric cutouts, they can be a little more organic. Actually the idea...”

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Course summary for: Creating an Illustrated Scrapbook

  • Level: Beginner
  • 99% positive reviews (226)
  • 3788 students
  • 4 units
  • 18 lessons (4h 9m)
  • 13 downloads
  • Category

    Craft, Illustration
  • Areas

    Bookbinding, Collage, Creativity, DIY, Painting, Paper Craft, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration

Nuria Mel.

Nuria Mel.
A course by Nuria Mel.

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Designer and Illustrator

Nuria Meléndez is a designer, illustrator, and scrapbook aficionado. She is dedicated to the study of creative processes related to the design and illustration of editorial and cultural projects. Her work combines two of her favorite concepts: transformation and nostalgia.

She has created work for publishers of children's and young adult literature, cultural magazines, musical projects, theaters, and museums. Nuria is passionate about projects that stimulate creativity and push new ways of thinking while allowing ample space to fantasize.


  • 99% positive reviews (226)
  • 3,788 students
  • 18 lessons (4h 9m)
  • 31 additional resources (13 files)
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  • Audio: Spanish, English
  • Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
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Creating an Illustrated Scrapbook. Illustration, and Craft course by Nuria Mel.

Creating an Illustrated Scrapbook

A course by Nuria Mel.
Designer and Illustrator. Mexico City, Mexico.
Joined April 2020
  • 99% positive reviews (226)
  • 3,788 students