Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook
What’s in Your Toolbox?
A course by Karishma Chugani , Artist, Illustrator, and Educator
Joined August 2011
About the video: What’s in Your Toolbox?
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk to you about the importance of creating a toolbox that is constantly growing to suit your newly acquired skills.”
In this video lesson Karishma Chugani addresses the topic: What’s in Your Toolbox?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook. Create a paper universe full of possibilities using visual ideas from your sketchbook and paper cutting techniques to bring them to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“What's in Your Toolbox? In this lesson, I will talk to you about how to create your own toolbox that is constantly growing and adapting itself to suit your newly acquired skills. Feel free to start with basic tools that you have lying around and slowly acquire new, more sophisticated tools as your skills develop. The first thing you'll need on this course is a sketchbook. I will be using an A5 Leporello sketchbook with a really nice watercolour paper that is suited to mix media. I decided to use an accordion format for this course, because I like the continuity that the accordion permits, y...”
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Course summary for: Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Narrative, Paper Craft, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

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 creative 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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