I guess just go forth and do. If you don't want to waste supplies, start with drawing before block printing. A lot of artistic "talent" is just practice.
Even more, artistic talent is just bravery. I can point you towards at least a good dozen brilliant webcomics that have almost no value as traditional, realistic art. One of my co-workers writes wonderful political and literary commentary with stick figures. XKCD uses stick figures to talk about science and math, and he makes a living off it!
So, Do it! And then bring it to something I'm at and I'll tell you how awesome it is.
I also tell myself this. If Jackson Pollock can get famous with his paint splatters, well, someone is bound to like my weird little doodles.
It's still daunting because our society puts the creative arts up on a weird pedestal. It's cool if you do them, but you need to do them well, but you shouldn't do them for money unless you do them very well, but even then you should have a fall back, and if you're a woman, well, the arts you do are automatically less than and really, don't you have some house work you should be doing?
Were you interested in wood cut blocks or linocut blocks? The quick and really cheap alternative to linocut is pink erasers! You have to deal with the smaller surface area, but it really gets rid of the "I'm wasting $" feel. (And now is the time to do it - back to school clearance at all the office supply stores.)
I love block printing! I've got bins of rubber stamps both commercially made and ones I've carved myself. I love using erasers because they are so inexpensive.
Unfortunately for this project, I want to make stamps that are a bit bigger than erasers. I try to stock up on big ones when I find them but I rarely find ones big enough for this project.
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So, Do it! And then bring it to something I'm at and I'll tell you how awesome it is.
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I also tell myself this. If Jackson Pollock can get famous with his paint splatters, well, someone is bound to like my weird little doodles.
It's still daunting because our society puts the creative arts up on a weird pedestal. It's cool if you do them, but you need to do them well, but you shouldn't do them for money unless you do them very well, but even then you should have a fall back, and if you're a woman, well, the arts you do are automatically less than and really, don't you have some house work you should be doing?
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Unfortunately for this project, I want to make stamps that are a bit bigger than erasers. I try to stock up on big ones when I find them but I rarely find ones big enough for this project.
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