Should've stayed in pottery class

Boring backstory: I was assigned to work at a ceramics studio at school not too long ago. And even though I call it a ceramics studio, it's not a place where they make anything, per se. The premise is is that they'll offer blank pieces, and pretty much, the customer comes in and gets to decorate the piece they choose. Because of this, the week I was assigned there was easy as hell because I virtually had to do nothing. Plus, it was the week right after spring break, which is always a slow time. Plus plus, it was in a shopping center which offered Wifi so guess what I was doing most of the time there with the assistance of my iPod?
My employer makes everyone who works there make their own piece to get the idea of everything. So I did.

Woot, my first plate!

Before firing:

Two love birds.

The back of it I painted it a speckled gray.

After firing:

Bad lighting plz.

Yup, the problem I see most people encounter when they're doing a piece. The glaze is all opaque when you slather it on initially, giving the impression that it'll be that opaque after firing too. So you forget that you need a lot of layers in order for it to give the nice, deep colour you want. And that's what happened to my piece too. Sigh.
At least I remembered that the glaze comes out a lot darker than what it looks like on your piece.  And it's really shiny when it comes out.

Other than that, I think it turned out alright, especially for my first piece. It's a nice plate regardless, one I wouldn't mind eating off of, haha. But first, I've got to wash it.

Oh, and guess what else? The plate is a value of $32 dollars. I got it for a total of 0.

But that's not the only thing I made.

Can I you guess what it is? I can tell you what it isn't: a dog or a Pokemon, especially not Shaymin.
It's supposed to be a deer. Just a deer. Period.

Yeah, did something a little simpler than the one above, because I started this one on the last day I was assigned there. I like how this one turned out a lot more than the one above, but since I kept the design more minimalistic, that's not a surprise.
The back for this one is a speckled black, which I think looks great.

Man, after my week there, I've got some respect for the people who work around kilns. Taking things out of that thing is nerve racking, especially when it's too high for you, everything's heavy, and everything can break.