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ALRIGHT, I promise I'm going to post more of the new stuff I've been working on, but before then, I need to backtrack a little bit. As it turns out, I totally forgot to upload this when I did it in the Spring.
For this piece, I experimented with giving an inanimate object a personality. I chose a beer bottle as my object because I found the colors and reflections on the glass to be really interesting and beautiful. To communicate the smooth texture of the bottle, I used a waxy medium: colored pencils. The objects in the background (phone, pill bottles, and post-it note) were composed on my kitchen counter as a reference.
11x14 Bristol, Colored Pencil and Charcoal, and I think this piece took about 20 hours if I'm remembering right.
For this piece, I experimented with giving an inanimate object a personality. I chose a beer bottle as my object because I found the colors and reflections on the glass to be really interesting and beautiful. To communicate the smooth texture of the bottle, I used a waxy medium: colored pencils. The objects in the background (phone, pill bottles, and post-it note) were composed on my kitchen counter as a reference.
11x14 Bristol, Colored Pencil and Charcoal, and I think this piece took about 20 hours if I'm remembering right.
Image size
3000x2404px 4.19 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon PowerShot ELPH 100 HS
Shutter Speed
1/60 second
Aperture
F/5.6
Focal Length
17 mm
ISO Speed
800
Date Taken
Sep 5, 2014, 9:45:10 AM
Sensor Size
4mm
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Originality Technique ImpactWorking with still life can be cruel at times. It definitely shows your strengths and weaknesses. I love the personification of the bottle through its shadow. However, I find that perhaps the spout of the bottle is a little too small and tapered at the top. I could be completely wrong and that may be how the bottle is but at a glance that catches my eye. The amount of detail put into the bottle is great the reflections really pop out and the labeling looks professional. Which leads me to nitpick at the rest of the objects depicted in the image. The cap of the pill bottle seems to be misshapen and doesn't really have the proper tones on it. If anything I think you can push the tones of the shadows a bit more on that as well as the phone. Compositionally it is set up well, but I find that when you're led from the bottle to the other side of the page it falls flat. The phone loses it's shape and doesn't seem to have a defined form. In shorter terms I love the left side! Don't very much care for the right.