Still Life (in progress - UPDATED)

 

UPDATE:  here's what I've done since last week. The sunglasses are still rough, and the edges definitely need to be refined but all I have left to fill in is the glass...which I'm totally avoiding. But I'll get it done.

 As you can see, it's far from being done. This is my first time seriously working in charcoal, so it's been taking me awhile and it's been super experimental. I'm really happy about how it looks now, though. The perfume bottle bothered me for the longest time because it's out of focus in the reference photo I took, but I think it works that way. I'll post more photos as I complete the piece.

Also I just noticed that the "a" on the Nutella looks a little small and it's really bothering me so I'm going to go fix that now...








edit: here's the picture i'm using for reference, just to compare