SO! I decided to try ….
Both hehe.
Originally I decided to do the tankard with the gritty speckled brown, but I also wanted to do a set of four and didn’t think my hands could handle that … They’re barely recovered from last time.
So I ended up using the orange clay for the tankards, which was good practice for making a specific shape. The tankards have more of a flaring lip too, so it was the best of both worlds. And eventually I decided to try the geometric shape and figured I might as well use the brown again.
The set was a decent attempt. I started with the same clay weight and aimed for the same height and rim width, but the height on a couple of them was half an inch taller. (I could have simply trimmed the base a bit more, but it was getting late and I like my sleep.)