What is the difference between black figure and red figure ceramic painting technique?

In black-figure vase painting, figural and ornamental motifs were applied with a slip that turned black during firing, while the background was left the color of the clay. Vase painters articulated individual forms by incising the slip or by adding white and purple enhancements (mixtures of pigment and clay). In contrast, the decorative motifs on red-figure vases remained the color of the clay; the background, filled in with a slip, turned black. Figures could be articulated with glaze lines or dilute washes of glaze applied with a brush.





The red-figure technique was invented around 530 B.C., quite possibly by the potter Andokides and his workshop. It gradually replaced the black-figure technique as innovators recognized the possibilities that came with drawing forms, rather than laboriously delineating them with incisions. The use of a brush in red-figure technique was better suited to the naturalistic representation of anatomy, garments, and emotions.What is the difference between black figure and red figure ceramic painting technique?
Potters have two ways process as follows:


- There is usual bases of face鈥檚 red clay, designer sprays black glaze skin, then scrape in the drawings,expose red figures. The rest is black background drawings.


- Draw drawings illustrations straight with black graze on the red ground bony pottery with the skills to decorate them.





... then after all, they fire them.