Ceramic Character Design: Explore Color and Texture

Learn to sculpt whimsical and handmade characters by combining colors, textures, and clay modeling techniques

• Introduction
• Preparation
• Bringing Your Sketches to Life
• Post-Production
• Final project

Through the clay modeling of characters, you can bring your imagination to life and craft unique ceramic pieces that are reminiscent of childhood. Artist Nastia Calaca uses her sculptures to take people back to a forgotten world of tales and magic. She fell in love with ceramics at a young age before founding her own studio where she sells her work to people all over the world.

In this course, Nastia guides you through the basics of ceramic character design as you learn how to draw inspiration from everyday life and turn a sketch into a colorful ceramic creature. Explore the slip trailing technique and use it to give your character its own unique personality. Start the course with a piece of mud and your hands. Finish it with your own ceramic creation.

• About Me
• Influences
• Materials
• Inspiration and Sketching 1
• Inspiration and Sketching 2
• Working with Clay
• Decorative Techniques
• The Body 1
• The Body 2
• The Eyes
• Incorporating Elements and Details into the Body 1
• Incorporating Elements and Details into the Body 2
• Texture and Finishing
• Adding Color and Glazing 1
• Adding Color and Glazing 2
• Packaging
• Other Applications
• Ceramic Character Design: Explore Color and Texture