Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook
Planting a Story Seed 2
A course by Karishma Chugani , Artist, Illustrator, and Educator
Joined August 2011
About the video: Planting a Story Seed 2
Overview
“Let's continue working on the sketchbook using simple collage techniques. As you will see, I like to use diverse visual references.”
In this video lesson Karishma Chugani addresses the topic: Planting a Story Seed 2, 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
“Planting a Story Seed And now I will turn the page and continue working on these ideas. My reference images include picture books from the twenties and thirties, ancient miniature paintings, photographs of actual dollhouses, illustrations of my own dollhouses, and even medieval compositions. I love mixing different references together and see how this creates a silent dialogue between them. It also allows me to think about why I like different things and what elements visually I will keep for my own language. While composing my visual research and making the first pages of my sketchbook. I ...”
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Course summary for: Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook
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Category
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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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