Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook
Creating a Dummy: Pop-up Accordion 2
A course by Karishma Chugani , Artist, Illustrator, and Educator
Joined August 2011
Joined August 2011
About the video: Creating a Dummy: Pop-up Accordion 2
Overview
“I will continue to work on the maquette, cutting out the negative spaces of my composition. Sometimes mistakes happen! Here I will also show you how to repair things.”
In this video lesson Karishma Chugani addresses the topic: Creating a Dummy: Pop-up Accordion 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
“Creating a Dummy: Pop-up Accordion This is a very important tip in paper cutting. Listen to the paper and to your tools and slowly you will understand when to use a pair of scissors or a scalpel, or even a bigger pair of scissors. There are no rules. The most important thing is to listen to the paper and to your tools and try to understand what way to unveil your characters and your scenes would be the easiest and the most comfortable. I like to think of paper cutting as delicately taking away the parts that we don't need to unveil the forms and the characters underneath. In this sense, I'm...”
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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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