Thursday, February 25, 2010

Music Themed Personalized Stamp: As a Birthday Gift

Ooooooops. It’s been such a long time.
Friends complained. We know, we know. We will try.
I carved this stamp as a birthday gift for a friend.
Whole stamp carving process is mostly fun, but creating a new design is sometimes frustrating. As the friend is a very good piano player, the theme of the design came up pretty quick. I drew some designs on the paper to visualize what's in my head; the name surrounded by some notes. However, they didn’t look pretty at all. I kept drawing and drawing and when I almost gave up, I finally ended up with this design. I changed the font and the position of the note. This is how the completed stamp looks like.