Learning How to Make a Stamp

 My Prosses of Creating a Stamp

     For the stamps, I wanted to create a magical forest theme, so I started sketching my ideas. I planned to design a frog with a wizard hat and a mushroom. This theme was inspired by my love for playing Dungeons & Dragons, my magical forest campaign, and a recent trip to a renaissance fair. However, when I was working on the frog, I changed my mind and left it as a plain frog, which I now regret because it would have been better with the hat.


     After finishing my sketch, I moved on to the next step in the video, which was transferring it onto the carving block. Instead of using parchment paper as suggested, I used my sketchbook with the drawing I made for my stamp. I placed the paper onto the carving block and used the bottom side of the carving tool to apply pressure, allowing the graphite to transfer onto the block. It worked out pretty well, though the image was a bit blurry. So, I went over it with a Sharpie to refine the details and ensure I could carve precisely.


     Once I finished refining the lines on the stamp, I started carving it out. This was my first time making a stamp, so I used the smallest carving point. The frog was the first one I worked on, and I think I added too many small details and struggled to carve them correctly. While carving, I kept thinking the lines weren’t deep enough to show, so I spent a lot of time making sure they would stand out. Once I finished the whole sketch, I used the bigger carving tip to carve around the stamp and then scissors to cut it out. For the mushroom stamp, I learned from the frog stamp that I didn’t need to dig so deep to create a line, and I was able to finish the mushroom stamp much faster than the frog.








     After carving and cutting out the stamp, I began applying ink to them. For the frog, I kept it simple with green ink. I was inspired by my classmate Ashley Sandoval, who created a mushroom stamp. When they were applying ink, I hadn’t considered using different colors to fill in specific parts, but I thought it was such a cool idea and decided to try it. For the mushroom, I used brown for the branch, green for the moss, and purple for the mushroom. Then I played around, stamping them in my sketchbook. I also used blue ink to make the mushroom stand out a bit more.








   These are the references I used to create my stamps.



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