In my initial collages, I couldn't think of a way to show that the purpose of my stamp was to show that the dinosaurs had been cloned so I thought adding in some tall buildings and modern elements would help to show that.
I decided to draw out a simple design on photoshop to begin with and played around with the background colour and realised I wanted to stick with the simple sky blue background and silhouette shapes. Since this is a small design for a stamp, I wanted to keep it as simple/minimal as possible.
This was my second time ever designing something on illustrator. Last years Monopoly board was a lot easier because I only had to make simple square & rectangle shapes and play around with colour.
This was a huge challenge for me and I struggled a lot. It took me hours to figure out how to use paths and cut shapes out of other shapes but I finally managed to get it done.
After this, I designed a simple dinosaur to put in to the image but wanted to bring the dinosaur forward outside of the border, without ruining the shape of the stamp. I didn't know how to cut off the excess.
With a bit of research I came across something called 'clip pathways' which would allow me to seperate the bottom section of the dinosaur without hurting the rest of the design.
This failed completely. Instead of cutting out the dinosaur, the tool put the stamp design inside the dinosaur design (which was still useful to learn for future reference).
After playing around some more, I finally managed to clip the bottom section of the dinosaur to fit the stamp design perfectly!
This is my final design for now. I need to add on the price and queens head to complete it and then I'm going to play around with colour and shapes some more to see if I can improve anything else.
