 Hi there, I'm Sandy Allnog, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I'm gonna do another human rainbow video, haven't done one of those in a while, and I'm gonna alter a stamp for a boy to make it African-American hair. And this is what the stamp looked like in the first place and I kind of stamped a whole bunch of them so I could practice different skin tones and hair. And you can see on the right hand side I altered the shape of the hair. I did that with the stamp in place because it was black so I could cover that up. But if you're gonna do what I want to do in today's video, you need to mask that off in some fashion. You can either use a post-it note or something. Or what I did was get the ink on the stamp and then wipe off that top portion so I could draw in my own head. Now on a stamp like this and on any, most any stamp, you're not gonna get kind of normal proportions, shall I say. The eyes on any head are not this low on the shape of the whole thing. But I'm kind of looking at the original stamp to see how tall that hair goes and how big that head is intended to be so that I kind of make my head the proper proportions, which is important. And I started with a really light marker so I could adjust it as needed. And if you're gonna do this, make the hair go in further. Don't make it as poofy-outty as you think it should be. So you have room to expand it a little bit more. And you might want to do what I did, which is, you know, stamp it a bunch of times and practice it so you can kind of get the feel of how large you want it to be. Now you're trying to make it look like a specific person. The shape of the head and the amount of hair is gonna differ. So you'll need to adjust that based on the kind of person that you're trying to color. So I put another ear on the other side because it just felt like it needed it. And now I'm gonna start putting in the flesh tones. Notice that I did put the brown underneath of where the hair is gonna go because depending on how close cropped the hair is, you're not gonna just see black hair. You're gonna see some brown skin in between. So you wanna have at least some of that brown color underneath. And I'm making him kind of a really high forehead because I was looking at a picture online to figure out kind of what sort of haircut I wanted to have. And the child in the picture had a really wide, large, tall forehead. So I started building my colors to do that. And I'm just using all the E3s to make my skin tones. There's a lot of different skin tone kinds of combinations you can use. And again, practice on another sheet and just try all your different browns and see what works. You can use some purples and that sort of thing in the shadows if you're bold. And then I soften the edges that are gonna go into the hair before I started on the hair. Now the hair I'm starting with a W6. And that's gonna be the places where the hair is not really super thick because the child had kind of on both sides a little bit of lightish sort of hair so you can see a lot more of the skin tone and then it got darker on the top. So it's not gonna go completely black usually unless the hair is really, really dense. But on a really short, close-cropped hair like this, you're gonna have that brown showing through. So I'm going back in with my E3-5 to just kind of blend some of that out and make sure that I don't end up with a harsh line where the hair starts and stops because if you look at anybody's scalp, if you can actually see their scalp, if they don't have any banks hanging down, you'll notice that they actually don't have a really sharp line. It's a very soft line where the hair begins. And then I'm going in with my W8 to add the darker parts at the top. And I'm doing it by putting dots in there just like I did with the W6. If you start putting like big swashes of marker on there, it's gonna be like a helmet. You don't want the poor child to be wearing a helmet. But if I'm doing this gingerly the way I am, I have the ability to adapt some of this. And I didn't want to adapt so that I had those really dark W8 dots going toward the skin. I wanted the W6 to be the part that's kind of moving in toward the skin on the line where the hair turns into the face because I don't want that to be super sharp. So I'm just gonna do it with a lighter color and then I can also go in with the brown and soften it again to make sure I get that really soft blend, that soft edge. Doing all this this way as well, not having a hard line on the outside lets me kind of adjust that hair later on too if I decide I want to add more hair or something. But I also don't have a hard outside edge because it's hard to draw that kind of a shape. It would be a really fuzzy sort of line and so I'm just going to kind of leave it as is and color the rest of the image. And while I do, I thought I would tell you about an idea that I shared recently over on the MFT channel because it kind of goes with what I'm gonna do with this card. I have been looking for people to give my cards to because I send out a lot of cards to my students and to my patrons and that sort of thing to random people that comment on my blog and that kind of stuff. But I also like to do something else with them because I have so many cards I make a lot. And there are cards like this where I don't know anybody who's got an African American child that would look like this and I want this to go to somebody who is gonna see that picture and go, oh that looks like me, that's me in there. So what I've been doing is looking for people to give a pack of cards to that they can use to write to somebody else. It's kind of like the old style Operation Right Home days but since Operation Right Home is in existence, we can do this one on one in our communities. Now I gave a pack of cards recently to my aunt. My aunt is without a computer so she wants to keep in touch with all of her kids and grandkids and great grandkids and everything so I sent her a pack of cards and I included a lot of kids cards because I don't send out kids cards but I like to make them. So I sent those to her so she could be able to use them. This one is gonna be one of the ones that I'm gonna put in the pack that's gonna go to our food bank at my church because every once in a while, like for Mother's Day, they just have done this thing where they ask people to donate items that a mom would want and that they could give to moms as a special treat in addition to the food that they're giving them. But you know what else could a mom use and like this is perfect for that. So I wanna put together a little rack of cards to put out when they come and pick up their food that they can pick up a birthday card for their kid or something and this allows me to use a lot of my cards that I wouldn't use for me necessarily but I like to color things like this. I like to experiment with that. So I encourage you to think of places in your life where there are people that might have a need for a card or two and that can be anything from like I said, a food bank. It could be a ministry in a church of course but it could also just be somebody who's living in a nursing home or somebody who's in the hospital for an extended period and they wanna keep in touch with their friends and their family. Take them a little pack of cards and there's lots of places that you can do some good with the cards that you're making and the cards that you're creating to give to someone else who can use them and it also allows you the opportunity to make things that you don't really have anybody to send them to but it'd be really fun to make the card anyway. So that's what I have been kind of keeping my eyes open for lately. Now when you do animal cards you can of course give them to your local shelter and they can either give them away or sell them as fundraisers that kind of thing but also think about just individuals that you know of or even individuals that somebody else knows. If you don't know anybody in that circumstance ask on your Facebook page say is anybody know a person who's in a nursing home who needs some cards and who could use some because I have you know X kind of cards. I have a lot of thank you cards. I have a lot of birthday cards whatever it is and just say does anybody know anybody that I could send a half a dozen cards to in the mail and you could you know do it in your community or you can send them in the mail to that person and just do it anonymously don't hashtag it don't get crazy trying to get credit for doing something good just do something good with your cards and I think that would be really an awesome way that we as crafters can make a difference in our world. So this card is going to go in my box for the food pantry and I hope that you will take the idea and run with it and go figure out your way to do it in your community with the kinds of cards that you want to make. All right I will see you guys later have a great great day click the like button if you enjoy the video. The supplies are all linked down below as well as the blog and I will see you next time. Bye bye.