 Hello and welcome back to the average today. I had the idea that you've read in the title of making some stamps out of the places within Howl's moving castle I recently read Howl's moving castle and I thought it'd be a really interesting fun thing to do. Also, do you like this little thing? I was thinking of making it a sticker Books and cats kind of girly, but I wanted to like help the kerning on that kind of girly bit there because I think that's too crazy We close together. Sorry Hectic start to the video Was usual. I was thinking I wanted you like stamped for the areas the different areas So if you haven't read Howl's moving castle and you just watched the incredible movie I need a sharpener and you know that There's different places within that universe. You know the castle travels, too So we have a few different places and I noted them down on my iPad. So we have high Norland What do you say like that? Norland high Norland Which is where the setting of house of many ways is you might not know that Howl's moving castle is a trilogy of books so the second book is called castle in the sky and It has different characters in it And I can't really remember that one because I didn't reread that one recently I've only reread Howl's moving castle and house of many ways So house of many ways is the third book in the trilogy and I always thought it was the second But it's the third and it does feature howl and Sophie in it as well So if you're into howl's moving castle, it might be worth reading that third book but also you should probably know that The books are very different to the movie in the sense that there's some added story bits in there that just are left out of the The film which you know happens makes sense and it's like the witch of the waste She becomes kind of like a good character in the in the film, but in in the book. She's kind of more the antagonist the whole time of this this story and she doesn't really have that kind of quality in the Ghibli film, which I think is really interesting because it kind of I always find that with kind of Japanese Media that evil characters, they always have like a good side to them. There's never just evil and good whereas like in other, you know Western media if you call it that There is a sense of black and white and not everything is you know straight up There's no there's no like gray lines that this person's evil because they're evil I mean more recently that we've had more complex evil characters, but you know It's just something I noticed which I thought was interesting someone had Mocked up a map area of Ingrid, which is the place where all of these stories take place and Ingrid, not Ingriger and This is High Norland, right and then we have like Kingsbury down here Which is where in the film Sophie travels to see the king Then she goes to the castle and stuff. So then there's the waist down here Which is where the witch of the waist lives surprisingly We also have down here, which is like the ocean and we have the port here, which is Port Haven Which if you remember in the movie they have that How's assistant is a little boy whereas in the books. He's kind of more grown up He's probably like a late teenager University kind of age And he opens the port Haven door and puts on that little beard and it's so cute Anyway, they've also market chipping, which I think is about here on this map. That's on the mocked up I hope this is a really really random Crappy map, but I hope it gives you kind of some portrayal of like this universe so I wanted to focus on making some stamps for this these different areas so in Our society or generally around the world We have these stamps and they all have different nature and different designs and I thought it would be really nice to do Like a set of stamps that all really and have something to do with each other so I really wanted to just focus on maybe a couple of these places because Just to start off with and if I enjoy the process, maybe I'll continue doing it but I was thinking the waist would be a really fun one to do and In the book, it's described as Being this place where no one dares to venture and it's like nothing grows there There's only hot Sun and it's got packed clay everywhere and the witch of the waist lives in a castle a Spindley castle. It's described made of clay pots. So I'm imagining that it's like Weirdly like clay pots stacked on each other somehow. I'm not really Sure how that works visually but something, you know something like this maybe and it's like spindly spindly I imagine is like a spire. So it's kind of like that with it and So there's a lot of packed clay and browns and I imagined sort of desert he fauna, so maybe some cactuses or is that more I Don't know if that would work, but that's where my mind is going So if I look at like some stamps that I've collected online I've done like a Pinterest board of stamps that I found really interesting to look at and I'll just show you what I mean So here is some stamps that I thought were really cool and it would be really nice to emulate them like this kind of classic style and It would be really nice to focus on the fauna or maybe like the cracked clay I really like this Japanese style of stamp where they have the little individual iconography areas and different style of like Placement which is interesting and I like that because there's no rule I guess to a stamp except for Maybe having the price on it And also the area where it comes from so we'd have maybe the waist here In some sort of type call photography And this is just me doing a rough design Layout because I realized that sometimes I don't really just show you guys a really rough process and this is super rough So you can kind of get an idea of how my brain works, but if we see look at these Pinterest Ideas again, it's really nice. I really like this this one where it has the different Icons, but I don't know if that would really work for the waist it might be interesting because like Theoretically if no one goes to the waist why is there a stamp for the waist like who's the witch of the way sending letters to It doesn't make sense, but it's fun. It's a fun task I guess a fun design task as well because you're actually thinking about Graphic design in this sense. This is graphic design rather than illustration, but it's kind of a mix of two, right? So we're thinking we need all the information on there So we want the name of the place okay The waist and what features does this place have it has this cold Evenings I guess because all deserts have freezing freezing nights, but it has a really hot sunny day and Maybe we can use a sun icon in there to indicate like the weather and Maybe that's something we could use for different stamps that we have so if we do a set of free stamps Maybe like the weather could be indicated on all of them So then they're all coming from the same universe and it would just be fun to play with For instance if we did like the Port Haven Which is obviously a port city. We could do like sea waves or something in this like iconography area so we can have a little icon here of something to do with the kind of Landscape that this is involving and then here we could have some sort of imagery similar to this one Maybe maybe not we can have some sort of imagery of the place so we could do like cracked Earth here, which could be nice, but obviously Think about it a bit more than just cracks and then maybe we could have Some fauna or something here. Oh, we want the price as well. So down here could be where the price is Which is a bit too similar to that one. So maybe we should just like explore some options. I really like this one as well I just think it's so Interesting, I really love that kind of block print aesthetic that some of these Stamps have so that would be really interesting to play into as well So maybe we could do that. Maybe we could just add some little like block printing style. I See myself doing these stamps with Posca's so that could be quite interesting Okay, I'm just gonna ruminate a little bit more on these ideas and we'll get started in the next clip So these are sort of my ideas. I don't know if you can see that on the camera But I've just been sketching out some ideas So the first idea is the waist and the reason that I'm doing the waist and Port Haven and not like Market chipping where Sophie's from that you see in the movie That's very European like this marketplace is because I just wanted to do something different and I know as Well that these places are gonna be really different from each other. So it would be interesting to see though The different routes I could take for each design So I want to do like this kind of layout and then this iconography of what the weather was like as we discussed And I was thinking that they could do like what each resource Would be good like What resource comes from these places? So Port Haven is obviously a port town So it's probably more trading but I would like to do like a fish because it's obviously probably a fishing town and then in this little section I wanted to do maybe a sort of imagery like we have of Mount Fuji in this stamp or You know lots of examples of these places So I want to do like a shot of like the place So we're gonna have like the wasteland here and then we've got the prices Then yeah, just trying to lean into that kind of iconography classic Like banner here and yeah, so let's get into drawing the final ones So for Maybe we can make these a bit bigger for the final designs because it makes more sense I have a handy business card that would be the perfect size Would it be the perfect size of that too small? Maybe too small? Because I think like if I work bigger and then I can scale it down If I want to make stickers of them if I like them That would be more appropriate, right? So let's make them big Maybe postcard size What are my postcards here? So that could be yeah, and we just gonna draw around this postcard because It works, you know If you haven't been around my channel for a long time or anything basically what I like using is this really cheap printer paper and I know people are like screaming at me from behind the camera lens or some people are but I don't care. I like using it and I've used cheap printer paper for all my comics and I enjoy the way that Markers alcohol markers because I think that's what I'm gonna use for this I was thinking POSCAS, but I think alcohol markers will be cool I enjoy the way that they look when they bleed on this paper because it's just kind of You know it just I don't know how to describe it. I am not a wordsmith. I want to be but I'm not Where are my pens? That's a good question, isn't it? They're under a stack of towels as you do So I'm just gonna first of all Grab some colors that I think would work. Let's do the waist first So I want to do like orangey browns Just trying to think what like a good color scheme might be And also like of course, these are not gonna be the exact colors. So We'll test them out first Maybe yeah, just orangey browns basically And I'll put these aside in case you need to pick up anything else. Maybe a purple in there for a pop Maybe that's too dark for purple Okay, let's see what that color scheme looks like So I just want to yeah swatch these Everyone knows I hate swatching but I think if you're gonna do a color scheme You need to know if they work well together So it does make sense to swatch sometimes guys Also not swatching and writing down the colors of each thing Sort of came back to haunt me when I was doing my comics because I would be like wait, what color was this? And I do suggest Writing down all the colors that you are using for your scenes because it makes sense I think this is very dark this one So what we'll do is we'll use that only if we have to I'm not really sure maybe on the borders and stuff. It might be a nice like line to use Not sure not sure. I don't know why I pulled this gray out So it's also gonna be too dark. I think We could use something This is gonna be our neutral Trying to think where each color might go on this scheme. I think we need a yellow as well This one's too dark for sure I think there might be a good better version then Then this one So I'm gonna put this dark one away And I think these oranges are too similar as well These two oranges are like the brighter one ball and of course classic me. I can't remember which one is which oh No, that's that one This one is I think that's the one Actually, let's line them up so I can See how they look side by side because I think on the stamp They're gonna be very close quarter colors And you know when colors next to each other they kind of change How they look looking nice That next to that kind of looks a bit murky up, but It's what we're going for it's the waist right we want we want kind of Merkiness I guess all right. Let's use these Let's get back to my sketch Well my missing sketch and I think what I want to do is just Color straight off Is that my design here? So if I can be smart enough Maybe I can block this out without having to Draw any lines. Maybe if I just do some light ones Because I'm not that intelligent I'm like I could do it. No you can't Sometimes it's good to have a little self-awareness I feel like this video is going to be super long, but Maybe it's nice to have one in the background whilst you're working So it's going to be a bit wonky because that's just kind of my style And you might call it laziness, but I call it laziness with a flare um Yeah Okay, so up here. We're going to have the waist I like how it overlaps these squares as well the The incurve The incurve of these lines So what's the square here? This is going to be so wonky and I'm just not that kind of designer where everything is like perfect. I'm just very haphazard. So Good luck to us. Good luck to us and anyone who hates this kind of style I guess Okay, so the sound I really like this kind of idea of these rays of light just coming Like this and then we can just have The waist up here. I want to do like a nice typography, but I need to just write out The waist otherwise I won't be able to fit it It will be like that thing where you start writing and then the letters just get smaller and smaller Roughly that's looking fine. I want to make that The type of it better than this obviously font or it might be quite nice doing it like my rough kind of style That just sounds like I'm being lazy again But I think it might be fun like for this I did like this rough kind of handwritten type face Or camp crystal like like not that typeface but that kind of style where it's a bit You can tell that it's homemade And that means that it's homemade with love kind of style Anyway, and then I want the price here and I like I said I want the price to be so expensive because Where the stamps coming from like why that would be crazy to send Because the witch of the waist is the only person living in the waist so It's going to be crazy to try and send her a letter And who's delivering that, you know, so it's going to be expensive So it's going to cost 100 whatever the currency is In Ingery because I did try to look it up online and I remember Maybe they mentioned it in the book Um, but I I can't for the life of me remember what she called it It's probably something very like european fantasy land, but you know this is the current layout and It might wow you can't even see But we'll get there guys This is the current layout and Okay, so this is what the colors look like I feel like this is going to be our dominant color this kind of sand One so let's just do Each block This dominant sand color it's actually called brown gray Which I've never heard a worse name for a color in my life It sounds like the most boring color that could be a color ever But there we go. We're using it We're giving it its chance Okay, and then I think these terracotta pots are going to be this Red I feel like that's too bright for terracotta pot Maybe we could mix it. Okay, let's just do the background This gray as well It's gonna be cute. I think Just just visualize it guys. Don't worry about it right now. Like obviously Brown gray is not the color for us, but it could be We could let it be it's kind of like giving goldeny golden Vibes goldeny golden vibes You know what I'm saying Okay, kind of touch there and that's bothering me. So what I'm going to do is just shrink this box down a bit here The price I think that's going to be in white And let's do like a darker This one is this color, right? Yes All right, let's try it Monksville And if you're saying no stuff that doesn't look cute, how dare you? Okay How very dare you? I'm trying my best sort of I'm trying Oh, no, I've gone for that. I went for that without thinking Oh, no, that's gonna look terrible Why have I done that? Okay, the whole background is gonna be this color It's all gonna be this color guys Is that gonna look stupid? Oh, I've done it now. So what can we do? I regret my decision when I kept going But Sometimes you just gotta lean into the mistakes and just be like fine You win You win mistake. I will Make all the background this orange color fine And let's see what it's looking like Okay, I love it Sorry guys if you hate it. I love it. I'm doing my method where I'll color in on this side of the paper and then I'll flip it over and you're probably thinking but Steph Then all the the colors are going to be all the letters and stuff are going to be reversed You're probably right. I haven't thought that through But we can always flip around on photoshop. It's all good Okay, let's see how it's looking. I think we need like a sky color as well I like it so far. I really like this like weird bleeding. It looks like it's Printed weirdly. I don't know like that. Maybe I'm weird The sun the sun. Yes. Okay This bright orange So we've got this blue gray to go with our Brown gray and I think it will work Yes, I like that color. Okay It's going to be the sky color for this bit and for the sun I should wait for it to dry because it's going to bleed Not in a nice way I've noticed as well like all my references The stamp references that I showed you they all have one color Which is something I didn't even think about until just this second And uh, I think it looks nice and I've made a mistake, but it's too late. It's fine I want to do those lines like you see on the stamp, but I'm not sure if it's going to look cute I was thinking of this dock. I said I wouldn't use but It might be quite cute to use it here behind these pots Oh, am I going to do this don't want to do it this way Yeah, I'm going to do that way to please be careful Okay, we're back. Uh, my camera died for a bit. So I just needed to charge battery, but in the meantime I sketched out some More ideas. I also had some Ideas to add some kind of magic Sparks or something to this image because it is Set in a magical world So I thought it would make sense. So I'm thinking either white or a bright pink to do some sort of like shapes like this Inner and around the pots would be fun, but I don't know if it would be too much But anyway, so this is how it's looking so far. Let's keep going Just really really simplifying some of these Shapes and what we'll do is like when I turn it over it's going to look Hopefully Nice I think I want to do it in this brown gray color I just want it. I don't want it. We've got to chill a little bit sometimes. You know when you're drawing stuff I get a bit too much pressure sometimes. So I just got to learn to just be like, okay You can't make it perfect. So just attempt To do it anyway Hey, and we'll do some circles down here to match the top So that's kind of what it's looking like. Oh, I want to put blue here actually So now I'm going to use my favorite pencils, which are these favorite castel ones Maybe we can do oh, maybe we can do like a shape like with this color That would be cool actually instead of the Posca Let's just go in and make like we're zooming a little bit for you guys Like these magical shapes Like this clay comes from the waist, which is a magical land Like all of angry, but still you can still have a little bit fun with the Idea of that Hey, that's kind of cool And yeah, I want to use brown maybe to as a liner to line some of these Yeah details I accidentally went over this Line here with the brown, but I think what I'll do is I'll photoshop that out So that will look cleaner. Okay magical clay pot. So you know Uh, I need to sharpen this for here as well. It's like touching So we can you know if you make a mistake It's easy to clean it up or photoshop If you so wish Really like the idea of this one Layering over the zero for some reason. I don't know why it's looking quite cute So far, I need to do something with a sun. I'm not sure if it's working It doesn't necessarily look like a sun, but it can be like the iconography of the area still They know that's the first stamp we need to do The line on the outside and I think what I'm gonna do Is do like a light color wash Or gray for that to indicate where These might be if that makes sense. So It's very rough markers Okay, that one's a little bit long Over a part, but it's fine It's just a frame of reference Okay, that's kind of the idea. Um Also, do I want to add any shadows? And I know A weird thing to add on a stamp though, but I've already done it like so like maybe too detailed anyway, so I could just add some shadows just here and there I think I'll like look cute when it's Shrunken shrunken, which I will definitely still show you at the end. Okay. I'm gonna sharpen my pencil a bit This is gonna be the nerve wracking it I don't know why it's nerve wracking because I've already put the shapes here, but I guess this is like Going to be the final show of what the stamp Looks like because I think this makes it all come together These little I don't know what you would call them like indented perforated edges Definitely much wonky on this side And I've added way too many on this side. I don't know why I didn't like pay attention to the spacing here, but Sure, it's fine. Uh, I want to just I've got that down slightly so they're not super in the face Okay, so there we go. There's our first stamp. So I just want you to imagine it small And we'll see what it looks like Uh, let's get going on the last one because I realized that doing free was probably A bit ambitious of me. So we're just gonna do two But this is fun. Maybe I'll do more in the future Because I'm kind of liking this idea So now we need to do a color theory Color theory a color concept for this one as well, and I want it to match slightly These are some colors that Shout it out to me So let's try them together And so there's this blue from this one, which would be kind of nice to use To indicate like the the design family of this Set Yeah, I like that one. Okay, so I'm gonna use actually this one that we used on this one as the base It's this one. Yeah Like I did the same base, but This was gonna be slightly different But similar. So I've got a line on the outside. So I could have remembered that so I don't Go over it Why I went over that line again. Oh, well, it's gonna be fine And what color was this one like this one for the outline It's like bright green Well, it's not bright green. It's like an emerald green It's not bright, but it's in the bright of the sense that if you saw the emerald palace, it would be bright If that made sense, I've done the same thing where I've got the Area of the iconography and then the landscape then the price then the fish Which is fun. I think it's fun. Uh, the fish I want to have the fish background be this color, I think So it stands out This paper has come back to bite me because those houses got completely eaten up That's fine. You can use that Uh, I might need to make the sky this in color actually You know, that's kind of cool Then we want this Typography I use in Very white terms to be the same color What's the background as I've done with this other one? Hmm Yes, I think gray. I think even though gray is not like the nicest color. I think it makes sense I think it'll look good with this color scheme So you can a little bit glimmery A little bit shimmery Bible Some color and maybe something like light pink Just a really subtle or maybe like Yeah Okay, then what? Then we need to do the sea. Let's get pencil in I want to use a black this time or do I want to use the dark blue that would kind of be a nice Contrast to this brown Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna use that My life during teacher in university once said that there's nothing More beautiful than a straight line drawn without a ruler And I couldn't agree more. It's very satisfying about it. It's imperfect. Perfect this I feel like for this one I want the There to be these lines in the background Sometimes I just say things and then I start doing them and I'm like, did you even Think about this We have a little shadow behind the fish here Little shadow action now that it looks weird It looks weird. Then that's fine. Sometimes these things happen again. I want these like shapes that we have In this image where it's kind of like Come on guys. We live in a magical world. So we're gonna have a little bit of magical Elements to this that thing again where I just started Going for it with this image and uh, I have no idea what that was just a little wave of wave Hopefully it looks fine. Let's just indicate Some sort of village here It's gonna be too small to be readable anyway. I think so Oh, that hurt my hand a bit. I don't know why Oh, I've done these lines now I have to do it everywhere I forgot that I did that Will they even line up? That's a problem If they don't line up, I just I really don't want to hear it guys You need to do a line It's fine, but that's probably well fine I think it makes sense because it's very Visually indicative of a stamp. So we need to have some lines on here To be more stamp like I wonder why Stamps have all this stuff and then I guess it's Similar to money, isn't it where they have to have all these intricate designs on it so People can't falsify it. So it does make sense Although this is a magical world So I guess people could falsify it or they could also send messages in other ways But not everyone is magical in this world guys and hey There's some normals out there. There we go. That's kind of cool. Now. We just need to do a stamp outline And I'll do my same technique with The pen and try to have similar shapes on each side because We failed last time, but it doesn't matter. It still looks okay Everything can be perfect already failed Okay Well, let's do the stamps There we go Cool. Yeah, I like it. I think I want to add some of that pink Pencil I have here somewhere Where though maybe here? I like that though. I like that it's white I said I like it and then my hands just were like no tough Maybe a bit more here I think it's a nice contrast like pop of color this pink Yeah, I think that's it. I think what I'm going to do now is just scan these in and then Mess around with them a photoshop and we'll see what they look like and that's the video I hope you liked it. Let me know if you want to see more stamps. It was fun to do. Maybe I'll do some more and maybe some of a different universe so suggesting the comments what books I should read and Explore that idea of that. I hope you like this video It was fun to do and I hope to see you guys next time. Please like and subscribe as always Really helps me out and thank you. Bye