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#304 Why You need to be making more pottery

Shaping Your Pottery with Nic Torres
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Are you yearning to take your pottery skills to new heights and uncover your unique voice? We've got the mantra for you - make more pottery! I'm Nic Torres, your guide on this clay-laden journey, here to share with you the wisdom I've gleaned from sculpting countless pots. Too often we become entangled in worries about our artistic direction - but the magic happens when we let our fingers dance freely across the clay. Remember, no masterpiece was ever created without getting one's hands a little dirty!

This chat is not just about throwing more clay on the wheel; it's about the transformative power of consistent practice and how it breathes life into your creations. I'll share my firsthand experience of sculpting characters, demonstrating that regular practice is the secret ingredient to perfecting your pottery. Ever attended a workshop and then halted practice? I'll explain why this is a major pitfall and how to avoid it. And for those of you struggling to find a theme for your pottery, I have a list of 53 themes to kick-start your creativity you can get those 53 themes by clicking this link here shapingyourpottery.com/53themes Clay up, and let's shape an incredible pottery journey together!

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Introduction to Personal Pottery Style

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If you love pottery and want to take your skills to the next level, you're in the right place. Find your own pottery style right here on Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. Let's get started. Here's why you need to be making more pottery. What is up, Shaping Nation? This is Nick Torres here. And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about why you need to be making more pottery. Keep making pottery and keep making more pots.

Finding Your Unique Voice in Pottery

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For those that don't know me, it is my mission to help potters like yourself discover your own unique voice with your pottery. And I do that by sharing tips and tricks I've learned along the way, and I hope I'm able to help you out. So in this episode, again, I'll reiterate, you need to be making more pottery.

The Importance of Practice Over Perfection

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Why do I say that? Because a lot of times we over complicate things. We over complicate things in terms of, am I heading in the right direction with my pottery? Is my pottery looking good? Is my pottery doing this, this, and that?
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But at the end of the day, what really matters is that you just need to make more. You need to make more pottery. Make more pottery. Keep making it because that's how you find your voice. Not by making every once in a while or making every one in a few days. You need to be making pottery all the time. Especially if you are a beginner and you're just trying to learn how to throw in the wheel.
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Learn how to hand build, learn how to sculpt. You need to put in time, make time every single day, whether it's even if it's 10 minutes, five minutes, make time to practice and make time to make pottery. The more pottery you make, the better your skills and the faster your skills get because you can learn something from a workshop.

Post-Workshop Growth Strategies

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Maybe you took a workshop and about wheel throwing and
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You took this eight week wheel throwing workshop and you have a little bit of a confidence but then you stop working on your pottery for a little while. What do you think is gonna happen? Are you gonna be better than you were before or after you took that eight week course? In my opinion, I think you're probably gonna stay the same. You're never gonna grow. You're not gonna be at the level you want because you stopped making the pottery. The more pottery you make,
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the better your pottery will be. And the more you make, the more you learn, the more you learn, the better your pottery will be. It's an endless cycle. It all starts with making pottery. Again, if you don't have time to make pottery, try to make pottery for five minutes. Whether you're just touching the clay, simply getting in the studio, or doing whatever with the pottery, keep making pottery. This is the most crucial thing to be able to find your voice.

Nick's Daily Sculpting Journey

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When I was learning how to sculpt my characters, my tauren character, I didn't know what I was doing at all. I had no clue what I was doing. I had no experience sculpting. I had no idea what my character was going to look like. I had no idea how to make eyes, hands, all this stuff.
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Every single day, I made it a goal, a mission, to just at least practice making the sculpting, that pottery, that character, and just practice it. Whether it was five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, an hour, I made time to practice, and I made pottery, I made the sculptures, I kept making them, and making them, and making them, and making them, and making them, and eventually my design was able to kind of come to life that I had in my head. Because I kept making pottery, and you need to keep making pottery as well.
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I hope you guys enjoy this episode and I'll see you guys in the next one.

Avoiding Burnout and Diversifying Styles

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or slash 53 themes, that's five, three themes to get these 53 themes. It's really important for you to find a theme for your pottery so that you're not gonna get burnt out. You can have multiple styles with your pottery and you can be known for something. So again, go to shapingyourpottery.com or slash 53 themes, that's five, three themes to get these 53 themes. Thanks guys, I'll see you guys next time.