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Making Eraser Carving Design Transfers with a Plotter and a Pencil

Exploring an overly-complicated way to transfer designs to an eraser for lino-style carving using a plotting cutter and a pencil.

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Sword and Flower Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp

Eraser stamp imprint of a leaf-blade sword with the tip stuck into the ground next to a single flowef in black ink on white paper.

This leaf blade sword with the tip stuck in the ground next to a flower bubbled up out of my imagination to become an eraser stamp.

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Totoro Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp

A rectangle of white paper imprinted in blue with the older child totoro character from the animated movie My Neighbor Totoro. It has a stout, round body with a big round white patch on its stomach. There are three chevrons on its chest. It has stubby legs and arms, long pointed ears, and big oval eyes. It is holding a leaf with a long stem as an umbrella. The carved eraser that made the print is laying at an angle on the upper left corner. The eraser and print are both sitting on a sheet of handmade grass green paper with long fibrous inclusions in different shades of green.

The older child totoro doesn’t get enough attention. Here it is, hopelessly kawaii holding a leaf umbrella.

Brushbuddy Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp

A couple of white rectangles of paper are imprinted with an image of long fuzzy cartoon creature wrapped around a cord suspending a ball with a four-pointed star. The image is reversed out of the ink making up the print. There is one print in an avocado green and another in black. The carved white eraser (stained with green ink) rests face-up on the corner of the green print. The background is crinkled purple paper (momigami).

Hand-carved eraser stamp of Brushbuddy from the Witch Hat Atelier manga and anime adapted from original work by artist Kamome Shirahama.

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Celtic Key Pattern Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp

A blocky white eraser has been carved with a Celtic key pattern, a maze-like pattern consisting of angled lines and triangles. The raised surface of the design is stained black. The stamp stands on one small edge on a surface of blue handmade paper. In front of the stamp is a rectangular piece of white paper that has been imprinted with the design in black.

I carved a Celtic key pattern stamp from a blocky white eraser for the International Day of Celtic Art on June 9th.

Moth Wizard Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp

A rectangular piece of white paper imprinted with an anthropomorphized, cartoonish moth character with five four-pointed stars in various sizes above its head. The wings look like a cloak around a very simple body. The face is white with two black spots for eyes. There are feathered antennae atop the head. The blocky white carved eraser that made the impression is laying face-up on the upper left corner of the print. Both are on a background of deep blue paper with a single metallic silver leaf inclusion.

I took a break from the fan art stamp carvings to do an original character: this is Moth Wizard, carved on a blocky white eraser.

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Ink Pot Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp

A rectangular piece of paper is imprinted in black with an image of a small jar of ink. The carved eraser stamp that made the impression lays face-up on the upper right corner of the print. The interior of the ink pot has been painted in with a shimmer ink. The background is blue-green decorative paper with gold metallic lines. The view is angled somewhat from the lower left corner.

My next hand-carved eraser lino-style stamp is an ink pot loosely inspired by the new Witch Hat Atelier anime.

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Joystick Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp

A rectangular piece of white paper in landscape format is imprinted in black with and angled view of an old-style home computer joystick. The cord from the joystick coils irregularly away from the joystick, then turns into a rectangular border around the print. The carved eraser that made the print it face-up on the upper right corner of the print. Both are sitting on a surface of bright red paper.

I have a couple of very old joysticks in this style, but I also have one that was newly-produced to go with the new Commodore 64 Ultimate. I thought it would make for a cool eraser stamp. I started with a quick phone photo at the angle I thought I wanted. I used that as a reference to draw a simplified version in Inkscape, then printed and transferred it to the eraser for carving.