
The beauty I find in glass, however, is that on a hard third glance, it gets possible to break up the complexity into pieces that your eye and brain can organize.

Glass may seem like a simple thing, but upon a second look, you realize that a simultaneously transparent and reflective surface is pretty complicated to capture convincingly! In fact, bottles and glass are one of my favourite such skill-enhancing subjects. Inanimate objects are often art-worthy unto themselves, but aside from that they can be great for just honing certain drawing skills. While many of my drawing subjects are living things, there’s a certain joy in sometimes drawing something without a facial expression. It also saves my neck from craning hunched over a desk for hours – I now get to kick back and work from the couch! Creating illustrations like bottle drawings with an Apple Pencil on iPad Pro saves me time, saves money on art supplies, and is really quite fun. Both by how easy it is to pick it up, and by its amazing potential. However, after much curiosity I’ve given digital drawing a try and have been blown away. Until recently I’ve only worked with traditional media – pencil, ink, watercolour, on paper. I’m a Toronto illustrator who specializes in portraiture, editorial illustration and exhibition design.


5.7 Congrats! You’ve Completed Our Procreate Tutorial! How To Draw a Bottle: Embrace New Technology
