Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook

What Is My Book Going to Look Like? 1

A course by Karishma Chugani , Artist, Illustrator, and Educator

Artist, Illustrator, and Educator. Madrid, Spain.
Joined August 2011
98% positive reviews (169)
5,086 students
Audio: English, Spanish
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About the video: What Is My Book Going to Look Like? 1

Overview

“This lesson is a feast for the eyes! I will be showing you many different book formats and demonstrating how each offers its own particular narrative.”

In this video lesson Karishma Chugani addresses the topic: What Is My Book Going to Look Like? 1, 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 Is My Book Going to Look Like? In this lesson, I will show you a wide selection of different paper book formats. I hope it will be a feast for your eyes. I have selected these books according to how the cuts, the folds, and the paper engineering provide a special and unique narrative to the story. Before we start looking at the selection of books, I want us to start thinking a little bit about the physicality of a book. A book has physical properties which alter completely the way it's read. The size of it makes it feel a little bit more intimate, closing in on details. If it's a very ...”

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Course summary for: Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook

  • Level: Beginner
  • 98% positive reviews (169)
  • 5086 students
  • 4 units
  • 18 lessons (4h 31m)
  • 8 downloads
  • Category

    Craft, Illustration
  • Areas

    Arts & Crafts, DIY, Narrative, Paper Craft, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

Karishma Chugani

Karishma Chugani
A course by Karishma Chugani

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Artist, Illustrator, and Educator

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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Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook. Illustration, and Craft course by Karishma Chugani

Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook

A course by Karishma Chugani
Artist, Illustrator, and Educator. Madrid, Spain.
Joined August 2011
  • 98% positive reviews (169)
  • 5,086 students