Reflections

This drawings was done in graphite pencil and was designed to show reflective surfaces. I drew a selection of glass bottles on different levels and angels to get different light effects. i used a graphite pencil as it is a material i am comfortable using and i did not want to risk using something else. By using a putty rubber i could get some good reflections on my work that would have been difficult if i was relying purely on shading. As it was all glass some areas were very difficult, especially where the bottles over lapped meaning i could see one through the other making some very interesting reflections. A lot of the bottles had labels causing a big area where there where no reflections to show this i drew the labels as a solid black shape as it would have taken too long to draw them in detail. The part that took me the longest was the gin bottle, because of the way it was angled and its shape it took me a while to get right. The main area I'm not very happy with is the drapes underneath the bottles as i feel they could be better.