Stamps!!!!!!!!

Finished my stamps today! I ended up just going with making tiny little zoomed in sections of the objects that we see Nakamats wearing/using underwater on Ai. Now I'm looking at these I know these might not have been the most clever idea I've ever had, but I think that sums up this project for me, I'm nearly through it and I've made some OK work but I wouldn't say any of it is the kind of work I could see myself seriously making for myself or in the future?

Good points:

• They are really in keeping with the rest of the things I've made for this module and theres a really distinctive visual style with them all
• I think they tell the story of Nakamats's underwater creative process quite well? These are the fundamental elements of his thought process and all play a part behind his inventions so I guess they're quite important to this project
• I shockingly really liked working to this size, especially on Ai because you can work at a normal scale and the scale it down when you're printing it. Theres no way I could have got this precise detail using analogue methods at this size, it would have been way too fiddly! 
• I've also found the process of working digitally really satisfying in that it makes it easy to make a lot of work really quickly that looks really high quality, it also makes it really easy to make changes to work you've already done if you change your mind about it (something I'm thinking about with my postcard designs)

Bad points:

• As I said before I am fully aware this isn't my most developed work and there maybe isn't much of a story behind this? But thats due to me managing my time quite badly and running out of time to generate any more ideas
• I don't know if I've done as much as I could have with the frame of the stamps? maybe I could have filled the frame more and played with composition a bit more