Just as I'm lazy about bothering with a tripod when taking photographs, I'm lazy about bothering with a grid when drawing, even though I know it would give me immeasurably better results. Below is the jar of colored glass that was my model:
You can see that, for a jar, it has pretty complicated lines. But that's no excuse. Anyway, I enjoyed the time spent drawing, and that's the main thing for non-artist me.
A college art professor critiqued my still life as being too realistic-"they make cameras for that". But later as
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department to sketch an item from the blueprints. Along came CAD-CAM and I was left with my flasks and spectrometers. So, clearly unqualified as an art critic,
my opinion, based on practical perspective drawing, is that
A: a glass jar with candy is difficult, B: a bit more shading would give your drawing more depth, focusing on the lid and right side C: your free hand perspective looks
fine and would be brought out more with a simplified horizontal line like the shelf edge in the photo. If old
Dr. Ortiz knew I was doing art criticism, she would move me to the back of the class!
Ha-ha, fooled ya, BB! Not candy but pieces of colored glass picked up in the desert. I wonder if the difference between my execution of right and left sides has to do with having a dominant hand. Hmmm. Scientific question?
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