stamp making - failures and different approaches

 Hi everyone!

This week, I was following a tutorial on making stamps from my art teacher's blog. You can check it out here!

Anyways, I started off by sketching design ideas. I love drawing flowers, so that was my first idea. After I drew on the design and grabbed my carving tool, I realized my younger brothers had got hold of it and lost all but one of the tips... ( ﾉ ﾟｰﾟ)ﾉ┏━┓

here was the initial design and a then a simpler design I decided to draw on the stamp. After trying to carve it out, I hurt my hand because I wasn't being too careful with the tip... (❁´◡`❁)👉👈 lesson learned. At this point I knew that I wouldn't be able to continue carving out this design. I thought "what can I do????" Then I had an idea...

I saw this scrap stamp sheet that I tossed to the side, and I had the thought to carve shapes out as a whole and use multiple of these stamps to make a bigger picture design... Sorry, I don't know if that made sense.

See, here, I had the idea to continue with a flower design, but make different stamp shapes to make the whole bouquet. I cut out random blobs with scissors to make the flowers, leaves and even the vase!

I used the different stamp colors to make the drawing stand out, and I tried to emphasize a variety of colors in monochromatic schemes (if that makes sense..) It was super fun to make and was something new that I enjoyed making. I think I will try again in the future to make a carved out stamp of my own design again, with better safety precautions... It is a lot of work, but it is fun (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

So, to continue, I showed ChatGPT my drawing and asked it to give me an idea on what to make of the drawing, and what I could add to make it a complete art piece. Here is the output it gave me:

I think it's beautiful! But it's not exactly how I wanted to to be, as I wanted it to look more like a painting. But I liked the idea of making it as if it were standing on it's own shadow. So, I took my drawing, imported it to a free background remover, copy/pasted it into Adobe Fresco, and used the water brush to create a blue background by blending two different blues together. I also drew on a shadow for the bouquet, and the piece was complete! Here it is, and it's very simple, but I'm happy with it's outcome.

Welp, that's it from me for this week. Thanks to everyone who reads, I'll post again soon! Hope everyone has a good week.

bye! (o＾∀＾o）ﾉｼ