idlelizard

🦎@idlelizard🦎: My art! Mostly creatures

🐍@wavywyrm🐍: Occasional reblogs Ceramics will be available for purchase at the end of July! Sign up for the newsletter to be notified here✉︎🦎

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Thank you!!

Hi, yes soon! Ceramics shop will be open at the end of the month- details will be posted in the next few days as I finalize setup!

1. I live in Romania

2. I'll have to save money to buy one and I already have to pay some stuff before

Yeah, whoops. 😅 But I hooe someday I'll get to buy one or more of these in the future. Because I really love them.

I scan pretty much everything! I have an epson ecotank 2850 printer which has a flatbed scanner on top that's served me well; it can't fit larger papers, so I often have to scan things in 2 parts and edit them together. I don't remember the model, but my old family printer was cheaper and also had a scanner that worked just as well, so it's not specific. Many libraries also have scanners you can use! You can still get good quality images with most smartphone cameras- maybe not as high dpi, so you couldn't reprint it at a large scale- but good enough for most purposes. If you're taking a photo, then bright ambient lighting is best (like outside but not in direct sunlight). Photos will generally need more editing, but even scans often need some value/color correction.

Hi, yes I just finished setting it up! Just as well since there's been some delays in getting shop stuff finalized, so if you want to make sure not to miss it sign up here!✉︎🦎

Hi! Well technically I first started ceramics when I a kid in youth classes at a local recreation center, long enough to learn the bare bones and gain an appreciation for the medium.

Dug up 3 of my earliest pieces and favorite animals as a kid: dog, ambiguous lump giraffe, and sea lion.

In between then and now I poked at more accessible sculpting mediums like polymer or air dry clay, which are fun and have their merits, but aren't meant for long-lasting functional ware like what I wanted to make. I also considered woodwork, metalwork, or glass, but ultimately ceramics drew me back in! (I would still love to do those other mediums if I can find a place to learn them.) I find ceramics is very forgiving if you just follow the basic rules you'll learn in any beginner class. There's also plenty of educational videos on youtube. I would recommend looking at a variety of sources to find techniques that work for you, especially for wheel throwing; trying a different hand position or changing how you're situated at the wheel can make a big difference. Even if you mess up you can always re-use the clay to try again! Aside from learning the craft itself, I also really enjoy learning about ceramic art history through free online lectures or books, it always motivates me to make new stuff :) The biggest barrier of entry for ceramics is that it's expensive, and when you're a beginner failing more than you succeed then this can be extra frustrating. To make the most of my limited in-studio time, I do all of my sculpting at home. Then while I'm at the studio I focus on things I can only do there, like wheel throwing and glazing (the only rough thing is transporting the fragile unfired pieces back and forth). Try something, fail quickly, and troubleshoot! If you're already a multimedia artist then you've presumably already built the "try new things!" muscle, so just start!

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