Final Piece: Still Life

A 30 minute charcoal drawing. This image focuses on complex information within a composition, primarily through the jar of marbles, which has a very solid feel, showing the viewer that the marbles are clearly held within the jar. This is done to a large extent by the rim of the jar, in which the lines override the marbles behind, which in combination with the shape of the jar and how the marbles are placed gives it this solid feel.

This solidness is shared with the rest of the composition through bold lines and shades, creating a picture with depth. This is especially shown in the plastic cube, which has very strange refractive properties, but makes sense when studied. The tall glass also distorts the fabric lines behind it, giving it a place within the image.

Compositionally this image works, the glass is saved from being an orphaned object by the shadow that connects it to the jar, and also by implied lines that follow the bottom and top of the jar and the block. These lines also join together along the glass and the block to create a circular line, aided by some of the folds in the fabric.