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Wanted to switch things up a bit from all my greyish drawings by doodling on some really intense, bright red background. I came this far and is now wondering if looking at something red like this can be bad for your eyes if you do it too often.

It almost created like an optical illusion by how bright it is. The skull kinda pops.

To give my eyes some rest I played a bit with gradient maps and got the second version. I kinda dig the colours. Light blue, teal and purple goes well together.

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I'm drawing round stuff right now so I wanted to make a post with other round stuff I've drawn.

Most social media seem to have switched to round profile pics at this point and while round can be a tricky format in some cases it's also quite visually pleasing.

Next I want to see though is online picture galleries with hexagon grids a la beehives. It can't be impossible in today's age!

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Skelly doodle drawing.

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Got an unintended glaze effect on another pendant which looked a bit like a fetus inside a womb or egg. So I wanted to make one like that. The glaze of course didn't look the same here, but it's a first try. You never know with glazes. They live their own lives. Rebellious things. Like cats - who are also fancy liquids in warmth.

Now I want to make more pendants with little alien fetuses in them. With different variations. Unborn life. Balances out the skull pendants I make too, to some extent.

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He's very old and them old bones feel cold sometimes when slugging around in the garden.

Slugging is what I imagine a slug does when it moves around.

This was an experiment doodle where I used gradient maps for the colours. Haven't used that tool until quite recently so I'm still figuring it out. I posted another version here on tumblr... like... today? Yesterday. But this is the finished version. Yey for finished drawings! (Even when they keep their very sketch-like appearance but it's good enough ey?)

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More playing around with gradient maps.

This drawing was too NSFW to even be posted on Cara (the system said no) and on Bluesky it automatically got the "Sexually Suggestive" label. I wonder if they use the same software, and if that software thought this was nudity? Or if they keep a low threshold just to be sure?

It doesn't bother me, but I was surprised. Thought this drawing was... well... decently SFW, at least. Within it's genre.

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More fun with gradient maps. Just doodling around and not having to change colours all the time as I usually do. It's nice. I like it.

Also, interesting to turn off the gradient map filter after a while and be reminded that the drawing underneath is, in fact, not creyscale, because I added a texture layer at some point which was a colour photo of a wall. I think it's quite pretty. Gives a completely different vibe.

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Having fun with gradient maps. It tickles the brain when you're drawing and it gets darker and darker the darker the colour you use - until suddenly it gets lighter again because black=green.

It really is a way to liven up the doodling during days when everything is more difficult than it should be.

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Marine biologists and peeps like that - kindly ignore this post. The rest of you - please look at this anatomically correct anatomical diagram drawing of a totally real fish that exists!

It's very neat. Also unfinished. I feel like it needs some finishing touches to look like a proper drawing somehow. But I wont be doing that now so I felt like posting it in it's current state because I still quite like it.

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Reblogging this because I feel like I mostly post my ceramic stuff lately...

I've doodled today. It was an attempt to feel better at a time when I didn't feel better. Maybe it worked.

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Yet another fishy friend! This time I went with a more effectful glaze on the fins, and they turned out very well! The overlap with the more neutral blue, as well as the engobe underneath, got a neat gradient out of it.

One day I'll go wild and att a tonne of different effects on a fish. That's just the natural progression of it all, isn't it?

Small clay fishes! Can be used as pendants.

I enjoyed making them so I'm definitely going to make more of them. A whole school of fishes! (Used "fishes" instead of "fish" (pl) because it would be several different species of fish. It's Englishly correct right?)

They have some kind of old school look to them, I think. Could look cool with other glazes maybe. I could make a bunch and use different glaze on them all.

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I like rust. The colour and texture. So really, I want rust but without... you know... the "falling apart" part and the "sharp edges you get scratched on" part and the "tetanus" part. So I try to find a glaze combo that gets the looks and the feels and the vibes.

Or something in that ballpark.

Or, something else that's cool that accidentally happens while I look for ceramic fake rust. I like how the one to the right looks like gingerbread in the middle there, for example. And I want to play around more with the glaze that gives those blue specks.

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This is a different clay than what I usually use. It's called "brown clay" and looks like chocolate at first, but then gets lighter with firing, ending up at a kind of yellow ochre. Though, as I noticed here, it also gets slightly darker when in contact with glaze. I don't know if it's specific glazes or if any will do. In any case, in real life it looks a lot like bread!

I want to play around with this some more.

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The fishes has a new fish friend!

Small clay fishes! Can be used as pendants.

I enjoyed making them so I'm definitely going to make more of them. A whole school of fishes! (Used "fishes" instead of "fish" (pl) because it would be several different species of fish. It's Englishly correct right?)

They have some kind of old school look to them, I think. Could look cool with other glazes maybe. I could make a bunch and use different glaze on them all.

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A raspberry pendant! A simple design. I think it turned out pretty cute!

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These are two pendants made of stoneware clay and glazed with "Copper Red" from Amaco. The description on their website states as follows:

"Copper Red is an oxblood red that gives the same results in oxidation as a traditional reduction copper glaze​. Copper Red breaks clear on edges or where thin. Apply 3 coats for best results, do not thin glaze."

I smeared on as thicc of a layer as I could on those two flats. And sure, I make pendants so even then that's maybe not tooo thicc. But even the glaze tests made by the one who owns the studio turned out just like this - light blue and purple jitter. Maybe it's the temperature of the kiln. Could be too hot for it. Or the type of clay, though I doubt that's the case.

In any way, those who make bowls and mugs generally don't seem to want to use this glaze, which I understand. I, however, actually really enjoy it and think it looks quite cool! Now I just have to try out some patterns and such.

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I name this piece... hmm... The GLAZE GUZZLER! Ehm... ok, no... The Glaze Void! Or maybe... The Glaze Omnomer?

In any case, it's been glaze fired four times (as seen here with numbers attached). Each time I cover the middle part with as much glaze I can fit. Each time it mostly disappears. I'm beginning to wonder if some chemical reaction is vaporizing it. Because the holes are just poked with a needle and aren't very deep at all - I've seen deeper holes filled with less glaze.

As of now, I'll just fire it again and again. With more glaze every time. Until it's covered or the inside of it looks cool. I'm taking safety precautions to protect the kiln in case the clay cracks.