Still Life Candy + Spheres

The subjects of my projects are candy (on the left) and spheres (on the right). I made the candy drawing by observing an array of candy and coloring what they looked like. I made the sphere drawing by testing the shading with different materials. I used colored pencil for the candy project, and charcoal, water color, colored pencil, and ink for the spheres.

Foe composition techniques, I just used shading. These projects evolved because I continued to darken color for darker shadows.

The story behind the spheres is that we were testing out different materials to shade with to use for the candy project. The story behind the candy project is that they weren't necessarily my favorite candies, but I wanted the piece to look interesting, so I chose the ones that would look well together to draw. These relate to my life because still life is everywhere around us and we see these things all the time, but it is still somehow tricky to draw them.