Creation and Modeling of Ceramic Characters

Overview

“In this lesson you will learn one of the basic ceramic building exercises, the plate modeling technique. This exercise will help us to generally sketch the torsos of our characters, but you will see how you can also apply this technique in other figures that I will show you as an example.”

In this video lesson Martin Ferreyra addresses the topic: Exercise with plates, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation and Modeling of Ceramic Characters. Learn techniques to model and paint with clay and bring unique characters to life.

Partial transcription of the video

“Exercise with plates To start with the practical part, Let's start with a warm up exercise. The first exercise we propose is a plaque exercise. So, let's take the pasta, to start forming a kind of pizza or flatten it in the form of an omelet. Once we work, for this exercise We are going to use the roller. The roller helps us to continue kneading and, somehow, flattening the piece. So, what are we going to observe now is that as we flatten the piece and reaching the thickness we want to achieve, small bubbles appear. These bubbles, in a way, what I always do is with a knife or with a point I...”

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Course summary for: Creation and Modeling of Ceramic Characters

• Level: Beginner
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• 3768 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 38m)
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• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Ceramics, Character Design, Fine Arts