Doodle Your Own Ceramic Designs

Use your doodle drawings to create unique, one-of-a-kind ceramic pieces.

By Molly Hatch
Updated on November 5, 2021
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In New Ceramic Surface Design (Quarry Books, 2015), Molly Hatch helps you take your ceramic project to the next level with easy ideas for drawing, printing, painting, and stenciling on clay surfaces. Each project is outlined with step-by-step instructions, along with hand-drawn illustrations and inspirational photographs of Hatch’s finished pieces. A faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design, and an internationally shown ceramics artist, Hatch introduces innovative techniques using a variety of materials.


Doodling on the ceramic surface can be as satisfying as doodling on paper. Drawing from your imagination and responding to the form you are drawing on can have fantastic results and lead to new artwork ideas. Doodling on clay is a great warm-up exercise, but it can also become a large part of your work. If you find that you doodle in your spare time with paper and pen, then this project will come naturally. Doodling is a great way to work on a surface a little at a time. You can put it down and return to it later–consider doodling on clay a work that progresses over time rather than trying to complete your doodle in one sitting. Remember, there are no mistakes in doodling–so this is a great place to start, and with exciting tools like the underglaze pencil, you can even achieve the look of pencil on paper but on the clay surface!

paper with floral doodle, ceramic cup, brush, sponge, and pencil sharpener on a blue background

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