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I tried experimenting with something new this week: stamps. Yup, stamps. Behold the fifteen-cent first class stamp from the sovereign nation of Lichstein, featuring current monarch Duke Gebeine, the design last updated during the semiseptcentennial celebrations. Of course he hasn't particularly changed much in the past couple of centuries, so really it's just cosmetic. Maybe he just wanted to show off his new hat.  Here's how the stamp looks in practice, in case you can't make out some of the details in the blank version. The design was... tricky, to say the least. There's a more than a couple of mask layers involved, and several sneaky methods to get the art looking just right. However, the handy part about working with layers is that it makes it easier to create templates. Not a fan of red? Green, blue, even black could all be options with just a few tweaks. Besides doing some small tweaks and trying to get the template working well, there's really only two things I need to work on at this point: first, different shapes and sizes of stamps. I'd like to try doing some oval, triangle, and maybe even octagonal stamps. While the standard square/rectangle is very useful, there's something delightfully esoteric about obtuse shapes. Second I need to figure out what I'm actually going to use these stamps for.
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