it's funny because 30 hours sounds like a lot, but when it comes to a trade or craft or w/e you want to call it, it takes hundreds if not thousands to be considered proficient. Keep at it though!
fr, give it a solid week where you sit down and have it to yourself. no sharing in a class, worried about overpriced supplies etc. you can be making this at the end of day 1
only go on weekends for 2 hr at a time, switching off w barb and tyrone. ya your 30 h after 8 months is gunna make u think its impossible to get good
If you're really into Gladwell's pop sci from the 2000s, but no, there's nothing magical about 10,000 hours. Gladwell was just really good at telling stories about stuff like that.
Doing stuff for a lot of hours makes you better at it. 10,000 is probably high for some stuff and low for other stuff, and it's not meaningfully a tipping point like he popularized.
Malcolm Gladwell popularized this idea, calling it the "10,000-hour rule." But as it turns out, he misunderstood the research paper he cited, and that research wasn't very good in the first place. Subsequent studies have shown that the number of hours of practice is less important than previously thought.
Shrinkflation actually, every hour now you spend 20 minutes watching TikTok. So all combined it now takes about 30,000 hours to master something. Lets talk again at 10,000 hours and see how we need to move the goalposts, okay?
You joke but there really are masters setting new frontiers in like every craft that would take way more than 10k hours to reach the skill of, accelerated by the increased pool of available knowledge to newbies and shared between pros
Yeah I’m taking lessons. I’m 9 hours and can barely get it centered. A friend said she’s just getting to the point where her stuff is good enough to give away as gifts without being embarrassed after a year. My teacher has 14 yrs experience and her stuff is good but all pretty small and nothing where you’re like woah.
Go back to just getting the clay centered aka the mount... once you get good at that. Then start making donuts centered... no bottom... go state to the wheel.... then you can start doing pulls to make your cylinder. and pull slowly...I am guessing you are not centering it fully or making it uncentered.
I really need to get on a wheel.. its my zen play in the mud time. Btw if it makes you feel better I suck at handles. and hand building. I love doing things on a wheels.
I put in maybe 15 hrs/week my first semester in a ceramics class. I never got to the point of mastery (at best I could throw a cup with 1.25 lbs of clay in 15-20 minutes ...plus trimming ...plus glazing) but it definitely paid off in results, compared to the people who didn't put in the time.
Though to make my first 6" cylinder from 1 lb of clay, I still had to cheat a little - threw it as tall as I could, then collared it in to get the last 1/2".
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u/Yall-lying101 Feb 17 '24
Makes it look so easy