Stamp No. 17: Sumikko Gurashi Penguin and Crane

Another Sumikko Gurashi Penguin! I keep making penguins because... it's easy to draw? Well it's just cute and this particular LINE sticker caught my eye. Yay for LINE stickers. Love them! When I need inspiration for carving, I open up my LINE app and browse through the sticker... :P XD

My initial super ugly sketch VS the cute sticker.

Of course, I redrew it in pen... 

Halfway through the carving

And the finished product. The shape kinda makes it look... a little like a whale? Hahaha! 

Stamp No. 11: Sumikko Gurashi Polar Bear and Foroshiki

It's another Sumikko Gurashi stamp!

This time it's from the box of the cup again! I got my sis to draw this for me... but well, she can't really draw cute stuff... so I had to re-draw it a little myself.

It's of Polar Bear and the cute Furoshiki, or wrapping cloth, on his head.

The end product.

My stamp, versus the actual thing. 

Stamp No. 10: Sumikko Gurashi Penguin - Thumbs Up

So continuing with my Sumikko Gurashi love... I bought all the available Sumikko Gurashi stickers on LINE (the messaging app), and since I absolutely love them, I thought, hey, those stickers make the perfect next thing for my to carve!

Carving them is actually very simple. After doing the puny alphabets, and even more complicated designs like the circuits and the lines/circles, this is a walk in the park. The carving part that is. The drawing... well... let's just say that my penguin and their penguin doesn't look the same.

This is their penguin.

And this is mine! Mine looks slimmer huh? Hmm actually it's pretty cute too :P (self-praise FTW)

Since their penguin is cut off halfway, and I think that wouldn't look nice on a stamp, I took the liberty of adding in legs and completing the rest of the penguin.

Stamp No. 9: Sumikko Gurashi Penguin in Hotsprings

I bought the Sumikko Gurashi book sometime back, and on my birthday my sis gave me a Sumikko Gurashi cup! Just absolutely adorable aren't they?

The Sumikko Gurashi picture book.

Sumikko Gurashi Cup

The cup and the book together.

I just searched on Amazon and gosh! There's TONS of Sumikko Gurashi goods. The first thing that actually popped up was this Sumikko Gurashi SUSHI plushie. Sushi!!! Another of my favourite! 

 

Aren't they adorable?

Anyway... I tried to copy the one of the images on the box of the cup. (Yes, the box is really useful! Good thing I didn't throw it away!)

I just free-handed it, and since there's not 'left or right' with images like these, I didn't bother flipping the drawing over.

Half way through the carving process.

And the final product!

Here's the two penguins laid out side by side. Certainly not identical... but not too shabby either? :P