Pastel still life "Forgotten Dreams"

To create this piece, I went through a long and tedious process of planning, drawing with a viewfinder, making a thumbnail sketch, and drawing the final cut. A thumbnail sketch is an example of what the finished product will look like.  A viewfinder is what is used to plan the placement of the items for the thumbnail sketch and, subsequently, the final cut.  In my case, I drew several different designs before deciding on this one, the closest "competitor" was having the Pepsi can behind the coke bottle.  To create the three-dimensional objects shown, I utilized shading, lighting, and contour lines.  The first to were caused by the light source in the top left corner, and contour lines give the curves.  The light source is created by different directioned lines, reflecting off of the items in the image.