There are four main modeling methods of ceramic art.

1. Mud board molding method: Mud board molding is to roll mud blocks into mud boards by hand or with a mud press, and then use these mud boards for molding. The characteristic of clay sculpture modeling is that it can retain the external texture and creative traces of modeling, and the modeling does not need to consider the influence of mold turnover on modeling. It is more casual and has a strong original artistic expression, which is similar to sculpture.

2. Blank drawing molding method: Blank drawing is a molding method that uses the rotating force to cooperate with the movements of hands, and then draws the mud into various shapes on the blank drawing machine. Drawing blank is a very common modeling method in modern ceramic art, which is easy to learn and rich in modeling. It embodies the author's mastery of clay properties, molding techniques and artistic forms, and is several manifestations of artistic design ability.

3. Hand-kneading (sculpture) molding method: Hand-kneading and sculpture molding method are one of the most primitive, basic and simple methods for making ceramic art. Small toys molded in porcelain kilns in Henan and Hebei are also very popular, and there are many white glazed and black glazed ones, such as lambs with long necks and high heads and lions sitting with curly hair, which are vivid, powerful and without exaggeration.

4. Clay molding: Ceramic molding is carried out by clay molding. Because integral molding is solid, it is also called solid clay molding. The characteristic of clay sculpture modeling is that it can retain the external texture and creative traces of modeling, and the modeling does not need to consider the influence of mold turnover on modeling. It is more casual and has a strong original artistic expression, which is similar to sculpture.

5. Pottery: It is generally considered as an art form combining traditional ancient culture with modern art in China. From the historical development, we can know that "ceramic art" is a comprehensive art, which has experienced a complicated and long process of cultural accumulation. It is closely related to painting, sculpture, design and other arts and crafts. In the middle and late 1980s, with the intervention of western modern art, the western concept of "contemporary ceramic art" had a wide and profound influence on China ceramic art, and the concept of "ceramic art" once became a new fashion in the ceramic art world. It still reflects the contradiction and collision between eastern and western cultures. Such as "what is ceramic art", "what is the relationship between ceramic art and ceramic art" and so on, have not been unified until now.