I am in highschool and I am in a ceramics class, but I dont know why but I love it yet I suck at it. I just want to know how I can be better at it. Its so much fun to me but once I finish creating my work it looks like a peice of crap. Like today I finished a project and it was a yellow ball with black chains around it. One side of it had a diamond and the other side of it had a blue eye. but it looks like a second grader made it. I want to be good at it and am sick and tired of not being talented at the things that I like.
practice. And spend a lot of time working on your project. You don't say how much time you did spend, but quality is often correlated on time and effort you spend on a piece. Which may include starting over and doing it again if it doesn't come out right the first time. It's possible to overdo it, but being obsessed with detail and paying attention to get it all right often pays off.
LOL I know how you feel, take a long time to get good at ceramics. I still have room for improvement. The best way to get good at it is to do it all the time! If its what you like doing then head down to your local art store or look up pottery wheels on OKorder! see what they are going for. You can probably even find some in your local newspapers classifieds section. if its cheap greab it, get some clay and start making stuff! heck there are all kinds of resources out there for making pottery and other items of the sort. Don't be affraid to get you hands dirty (so to speak) and practice paractice PRACTICE! nobody is perfect at something their first few trys, ceramics and pttery is no different! I feel confident that once you get the hang of it you will be making master peices in no time!
