Ceramic Character Design: Explore Color and Texture
Inspiration and Sketching 1
A course by Nastia Calaca , Ceramic Artist
About the video: Inspiration and Sketching 1
Overview
“This is the most exciting part and, honestly, my favorite: developing the character design. This stage involves hours of guiltless surfing online for various references on Pinterest, sketching on paper and clay, then creating a small miniature for a better understanding of proportion. ”
In this video lesson Nastia Calaca addresses the topic: Inspiration and Sketching 1, 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
“ Inspiration and Sketching In this lesson, we'll start to develop a character design. To do so, we need to find some nice references of a real animal. We'll look for it on Pinterest and on Google Images. Then, we'll use these references to create the sketches in volume with three and two dimensions to sketch it on paper. For this course, I chose to work on the toad sculpture. I found some nice references on internet, and I chose the best from them. When sketching them, don't stick a lot to the real animal. Set your imagination free and pick whatever animal you prefer. How to develop the ch...”
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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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