Texture dragon eye

Hey guys, Miss Warren here. We're working on our clay dragon eyes now I'm going to talk to you all about texture Um, you want to get all of your pieces added on before you start adding texture because when you add stuff Let me show you real quick Um, let's say I was going to put some little um texture in these scales here um And then I wanted to add more scales as i'm adding more scales. I might accidentally smush and smooth the texture out So you want to be completely done with all your pieces? And you want to kind of start with a smooth surface so you could use your finger or a brush I'm going to put some texture on this little um spike piece here You want to smooth it out with some slip you can use your fingers or a brush And then you can figure out something to press into it or drag along it. So Um, the edge of a paper clip works really well For a little scale imprint Just repeated On there You can use the end of the paper clip if you just wanted some dot texture You can also press the popsicle stick over and over into an area In order to make like a lined texture Around the edges there. Um, you can also use things like forks or Pencils to create texture. You can use things with like an interesting Mesh pattern on it. Anything you push into here will show the texture. Let me see if I can find real quick something to add some texture to this Now here I have an old uh one from last year which has a lot of texture This has already been fired so I can actually take last year's clay piece I can get a little flat piece of clay I can put some slip on it Let it soak in just for a second Until it's not super shiny anymore I want that to soak in because if it's a little bit wet it's going to pick up this texture better And i'm going to press it on And peel it up Now it's easier to press texture onto a small area See i've got the picked up the texture from this on here And I can trim it Around the edges now The only thing is working with it after you've textured it you have to be careful not to Smush out all that texture and so you can do it this way, but it is going to be harder You can score score Slip Smush and i've got to kind of Be careful. I might have to just smush like this side And then you smooth out those edges, but I can't touch the part if I want to keep it textured Now I could also go through and take something and I could stamp it onto the surface Of whatever I wanted texture, but that's a little more difficult once it's already on there You can see a little bit of that texture coming through but not as much okay, so go ahead and create your dragon eye Get your basic pieces on there get some texture on there and I look forward to seeing your work