Inside a Creative Notebook: Explore Your Illustration Process
Looking at Your Work
A course by Karishma Chugani , Artist, Illustrator, and Educator
Joined August 2011
About the video: Looking at Your Work
Overview
“In this lesson, we will talk about looking at your work with bienveillance or a gentle gaze. We will talk about how to accept all of it: the good, the bad, and the ugly. I will also give you pointers on how to recognize your visual language.”
In this video lesson Karishma Chugani addresses the topic: Looking at Your Work, 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
“Looking At Your Work In this lesson, we're going to be looking at your work and recognizing your own visual language. Looking at your work means seeing it with fresh eyes, with a gentle gaze, with bienveillance, accepting all of it, the mistakes, the flaws, what you think is beautiful, what you think is ugly. Discovering, hiding secrets, and keep playing, this is what my symbol says. To talk about ways of looking at your own work, I'm going to show you my entire process from the beginning of this sketchbook. I started out by making a visual mind map, mapping out images and words, working qu...”
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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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