Candy Still Life

For the subject of my artwork I chose to draw an open bag of Skittles from a real world reference. My drawing wasn't exactly to scale because at the time of creating the art, I hadn't yet learned the skill of graphing when drawing realistically to get correct proportions. I started out this project by drawing a border and sketching the outlines of both the wrapper and the candy with graphite. Then, I used colored pencils to fill in everything. In this project I used the following elements of design: color, value, contrast, and form. One problem I ran into while making this project was making the Skittles to scale.

There is no meaning behind this artwork other than it was an assigned project and I need a 2.5 to pass this class. This lack of patience and high amount of procrastination also led to my background being white as snow. If I were to revise this artwork, I would put more time into the coloring and shading of the wrapper, as well as making the text on the wrapper neater.