The plate looks simple. The chopping, the burns and the first three ruined batches never make the photo.

Simple results usually hide the most work. A clean final version got that way by having everything unnecessary stripped out, including all evidence of the attempts that failed. You are seeing the outcome of a process rather than the process, and the gap between them is where most people lose their nerve. Easy looking and easy are nearly opposites.

When you try something and the first three go badly, treat that as the normal price rather than as a verdict. Keep the ruined ones long enough to see them as steps. Then make the fourth.