Inside a Creative Notebook: Explore Your Illustration Process
Paper Cutting Techniques 1
A course by Karishma Chugani , Artist, Illustrator, and Educator
Joined August 2011
About the video: Paper Cutting Techniques 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we will go through simple paper cutting techniques to unblock your creativity. We will start with a simple symmetrical silhouette, look at how to create repeated patterns or garlands and create simple pop-up techniques. ”
In this video lesson Karishma Chugani addresses the topic: Paper Cutting Techniques 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Inside a Creative Notebook: Explore Your Illustration Process. Unlock your creativity with illustration techniques to record and develop your creative process for artistic projects.
Partial transcription of the video
“Paper Cutting Techniques In this lesson, I'll walk you through some simple paper cutting techniques for unlocking your creativity. We'll start by cutting simple, symmetrical silhouettes, move on to more elaborate, repeated patterns and garlands creating the accordion fold, and finish off looking at simple pop-up techniques. Before beginning the manual process, I wanna show an inspirational example that I have here. It's the work of artist and designer Diego Becas. Diego Becas is originally from Chile. He took a few years to travel to Europe where he was spreading knowledge of paper cutting ...”
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Course summary for: Inside a Creative Notebook: Explore Your Illustration Process
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Creativity, Drawing, Gouache Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Karishma Chugani
A course by Karishma Chugani
Karishma Chugani is an artist, designer, writer, and illustrator from Morocco. She has a degree in Fashion Design with Printing from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, and a Masters in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University in Design Futures.
Karishma has worked as a fashion designer, published several books, and participated in collective and solo exhibitions internationally. She also teaches creativity workshops to children, teachers, and illustrators at her mobile school L’École de Papier, as well as institutions like Institut Français Madrid & Casablanca, Casablanca American School, Colegio Santa Isabel Madrid, and Libreria Gil in Santander. Her clients include Jerraflore, Le Chocolat des Francais, Marketing Magazine France, Jamini Paris, and the toy shop Wonderland.
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