Tag: milk carton

“Bottles” Value Still Life

The objects in this drawing were all different colors and had different degrees of sheen, all sitting on a white table cloth. From the left, half of a matte white wine bottle can be seen with a small styrofoam ball sitting at the bottom right corner of the bottle. The ball casts a slightly longer, dark shadow onto the table cloth to the right. Behind the shadow is a glass bottle about the same height of the wine bottle. It casts a somewhat transparent shadow to its right that just begins to touch the base of a dark bocce ball. The objects in front of the bocce ball cast shadows on its left side, although there is still a cast shadow extending from the base of the ball to the left. A small, cylindrical shiny metal container and cone shaped lid rest between the glass bottle and the bocce ball. There is a small looped handle on top of the lid. The edge nearly touches the shadow cast from the small styrofoam ball on the left of the page. The container casts its own shadow to the right. Behind the bocce ball sits a white milk carton, the shape of a rectangular prism. The glass bottle casts a shadow on the left side of the carton that looks like hardly anything more than an outline. A decorative, cylindrical vase is placed behind both the carton and the bottle. It's left side is bright while it's right side is dark, with a gradient of shadow in between. Indents on the vase have their own shadows and highlights. The base of the cylinder becomes like a curved stand, and the vase curves inward before curving back out again with the base extending behind the glass bottle and the milk carton. Part of the base of the vase can be seen as a refracted image in the bottle. In the background, there are a few white desks with black table rims and legs, along with a grey chair.

I used vine charcoal to draw this picture and started by creating margins on my paper and marking the halfway and quarter way points along the edges. I used these marks to match up my drawing with what I saw using my viewfinder.

I began by mapping out and correcting the general shapes and positions of the objects with several gesture drawings, then I filled in the values of the positive space before moving on to the negative space and background.

It took me a while to draw this picture, although there are still details I missed; for example, the glass bottles had ridges on the top just below the neck that refracted the background image in interesting ways. Given more time, I would include more details like this.

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