Thread by @morteraphan, Ok, I found my sketches and photos of the graduation project I [...]

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morteraphan

Ok, I found my sketches and photos of the graduation project I did in 2016. I promised to make a small thread about the process, let's go then.

Final and first sketches. They were pretty funny!

I planned to make porcelain chess so I made plasticine models and after that gypsum mold. I used linoleum, scotch tape, also plasticine and other... things. I know it looks pretty rough but now I think I can do it in any conditions.

Technical part.

This is the long part, so I have a couple more photos.

When I finished work with gypsum and dried molds, I started to prepare porcelain. Funny addition - at first I was given porcelain glaze instead of porcelain... so my life looked like this.

Of course after that our administration gave me porcelain and things got better. One half of the chess was supposed to be white (pure porcelain) and the second blue (mixed liquid porcelain with pigments).

TERRIBLE MESS I KNOW
(I swear I cleaned everything after work everyday)

When I took out figures from molds and they dried out a little, I made a relief with thin instruments.

Long part.

When the figures were completely dry, I used sandpaper to sand them. Very delicate work because the figures were thin and fragile. Fortunately, none of them broke in the process. And I worked only in a mask so as not to breathe this.

Longest part.

After that I removed the excess powder with a large brush and gently wiped the figures with a wet sponge. After that they had a more finished look.

Pacifying part.

Forgot to add my favourite.

After firing porcelain becomes much smaller. I put together a plasticine model and the first test figure.
(I also photographed them on a sampler that I ordered in a glass workshop)