Some parts of my pieces are very strong, the strongest element in the piece in my opinion is the cylindrical metal tub. Because it shows distinct sharp gradients like you would expect on metallic objects like this.
Furthermore, the background was a suggestion in order to help aid the transparency of the clearer glass.
Overall, the shading is relatively good, however, one of the main downsides was not drawing along the contour of certain objects, this is most noticeable on the darker glass bottle. My methodology behind this was the fact there were lighter areas, but were not strictly highlights, so I tried to replicate this on the object. If I had to do anything differently, I would have definitely tried to contour my line work in order to indicate shape and dimensionality.
I wasn't particularly happy with the glass globe at the bottom of my work, The shape seems wrong, moreover, the edges of the dome seem pointed, which overall makes the object look quite flat. The butterfly inside it also doesn't look particularly great, this is mainly because the glass skewed the perspective of the glass interior. But overall, I would use basic shapes in order to construct things correctly, such as drawing an ellipse where rounded objects should be, such as the bottom of the glass butterfly dome.
What did I learn from this piece?
Understanding curvature was one thing that helped push this piece, such as the indent of the metal jar, or the silver tankard, shape defining lines.
So understanding how line can define curvature helped this piece stand out.
For this week's thumbnails, I decided to discard the second thumbnail, mainly because, like previous weeks, I had issues with objects being took intrusive and having no breathing room. The glass bottle was too close to the bottle. Although it would make for nice contrast, but because they are similar size and height, it would be more difficult to identify what they are.
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