I chose to do Pochita, a chainsaw dog from Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man. It's a manga that has been adapted into an anime that I really enjoy. I will admit that the show is not school appropriate at all, but the dog is very cute and found it skillful that the Fujimoto was able to make a chainsaw cute. His work is phenomenal, the detailing on Chainsaw-Man is crazy and I hope to be able to create that someday in clay. I chose to make this piece because Pochita is adorable, and to serve as a memory of this insane manga/anime. I molded the general round shape, then went through some trial and error with the tail. With how thin it was, the hole would just not work; With toothpicks the tail dried way too fast and cracked, and completely fell off upon taking the toothpick out. The handlebar on its head took quite a bit of smoothing and adding clay in as it had cracked as well. The toothpicks stabilized it, but then allowed too much air into the clay at once and it cracked. Despite all this, I was able to get those bits down. One of the harder parts was hollowing it out enough but not too much or the chainsaw would outweigh it and cause it to be off balance. Not the cleanest hollowing, having to be careful to not bend off the tail and handlebar was quite the hassle... it's inside though so doesn't matter too much. After all that, I just piped slip and pulled up and back along the chainsaw and let it dry. Underglaze black in eyes, and glazed the rest of it in orange with some grey. I should have layered the orange glaze more for it to appear less blotchy, and should have smoothed out the clay more to help with that as well.