Ceramic Character Design: Explore Color and Texture
Influences
A course by Nastia Calaca , Ceramic Artist
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Next, I will share with you my go-to spots and some tips; how and where I boost my creativity and look for inspiration.”
In this video lesson Nastia Calaca addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ceramic Character Design: Explore Color and Texture. Learn to sculpt whimsical and handmade characters by combining colors, textures, and clay modeling techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Influences In this lesson, I'm going to tell you about influences and inspiration. I find the Victorian era quite inspiring. Even though it was a quite deadly and unsafe environment to live in, it looks like they had some nice decorative skills and time to perform and bring it to life, so when it goes about choosing the outfit for my creations, I find the outfit from that era very beautiful and inspiring. Like this beautiful shoes that I incorporated in one of my sculptures, or this beautiful swimsuit, that you can see on my sculpture of Bert, the hippo, and these beautiful costumes of th...”
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Course summary for: Ceramic Character Design: Explore Color and Texture
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Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Character Design, Fine Arts, Sculpture
Nastia Calaca
A course by Nastia Calaca
Nastia Calaca is a ceramic artist from Ukraine who currently lives and works in the Netherlands. Since childhood, she dreamed of becoming an illustration artist and went on to discover what has become a lifelong love for ceramics during a school trip to the Czech Republic. After completing a degree in ceramics at the Kyiv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Art and Design, Nastia started teaching workshops for beginners in her studio.
In 2016 Nastia founded Calaca Ceramic Art; an online store selling ceramic characters and figurines inspired by the world around her. Every piece is handmade and Nastia sells her custom orders to people all over the world. She also shares her work with over 70K followers on Instagram.
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