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So now that we've got it opened, we're ready to go ahead and pull up the walls. The way
we're going to do that is take your right thumb, give yourself a good undercut so that
you have a lump of clay to pull up. And then take your left hand, get your thumb underneath
that lump and your index finger on the inside. Your right hand is just going to serve as
a stabilizer and to squeeze the sponge if you need water. Now you want to push in with
that left thumb as you go up. Otherwise, the clay is just naturally going to go outwards,
and for a cylinder, you need to do this. If it's not in as much as you need, a really
easy way to fix that is to get your hands very wet and cup the piece on both sides and
gently but firmly push it in. It's good to start with a cone. That way, you can pull
that out into a cylinder easier than you can take a cone that goes this way and push it
back in. So again, just put your right thumb under there to give yourself an undercut and
give it another pull up.
And now we're ready to give it some shape.