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Speaker: You need to put in that extra effort just to make your pottery look a little bit better. 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. What is up, Shaper Nation? This is Nick Torres here. And for those that don't know me, it's my mission to help you potters like yourself to discover your own unique voice with your potter and do that through this podcast. So.
Speaker: A lot of times we are lazy. Humans are very lazy creatures.
Speaker: you are more than likely probably going to procrastinate because you don't want to do it. You don't want to do it. But you know what needs to get done. Maybe you have some like community guidelines that have to have your grass shorter than, I don't know, an inch or two, whatever. But you know, you hate the idea of going out there, pulling out the lawnmower and actually doing the grass.
Speaker: Because we're lazy creatures. I'm lazy. You're lazy. You've probably had moments where you've just been super lazy. You didn't want to do anything. And there are times with our pottery where we just don't want to put in that little bit of extra effort. Maybe we're not feeling the best. We're not feeling 100 percent. Maybe we're not just feeling up to what we are making that day. And so we try to take these shortcuts. But if you take a shortcut, will that hinder
Speaker: the way you make your potter with that hinder the way it look. And I think that we should be taking in that extra effort, even if we don't want to, to make our pottery look better. And that's even if when you don't want to, that's a key indicator that you probably should do it, because that means that your potter is going to look that much better when you put in that extra effort.
Speaker: One of the things that really stood out to me when I was in high school and I learned from my high school teacher, my first ceramics teacher was that he said he always trims his pots because people notice these things. And that was one of the biggest things that really stood out to me. And I still try to apply that to my own pottery as well. Like right now, I'm not really wheel throwing as much.
Speaker: But I still try to put in that extra effort to make my characters and my sculptures look that much better. Just a little bit better putting that extra effort, because if I don't put in that extra effort,
Speaker: my pottery isn't going to soothe my soul and I'm going to feel a little bit bad for the people that maybe are seeing it or buying it because they're not getting my full capabilities of my school crews or my pottery and people notice these things if you start taking too many lackadaisical ways of making your pottery
Speaker: then they're gonna notice these things, they're kind of being lazy and you're just kind of making, you're kind of going through the flow, through the motions, and people will notice these things. So that's why it's so important to put in that extra effort. Great art takes time. The more time you could put on a piece, the better it's gonna turn out.
Speaker: and you have to put in that extra effort in order to make it look that much better. Make it 1 % better, 2 % better. Just tweak here and there. You have to put in that extra effort because you don't put in that extra effort.
Speaker: and you're not really making to your full capability. The part you're making is just gonna look like everybody else's because you aren't taking in that extra step that you might need to do. Whatever it may be, maybe it's trimming, maybe it's adding a few more dots, maybe it's adding in some texture, whatever you're doing, add in that extra effort and your pottery is gonna look that much better. So you have to add in that extra effort. I hope you guys enjoy this episode and I'll see you guys in the next one.
Speaker: Thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. If you want to start discovering your own unique voice, you must first start with the right questions. That's why I put together a free 15 question booklet for you to start discovering your own unique pottery voice. All you have to do is go to shapingyourpottery .com forward slash questions to get this free booklet.
