go darker!

Last night's class we had to bring in a reflective object & a glass object to draw a still life showing texture. He had objects there that were actually textured to add to the mix. I don't have much in my place that's chrome (that's not attached to my bathroom walls or sink). Since that was the case, I found some Moen colour samples & there were a few that were highly reflective.
I set it up against the bag that carries all my loose pencils or drawing instruments to & from class. Everything I had was small so I need something larger. I taped one of the shiny objects to the bag to raise it up & left two others on the table. Well, you can see from the drawing so I'm not sure why I'm going into detail.

The point of this exercise was to draw things as they look. So smooth objects should be depicted smooth & not textured like say the driftwood. I had everything drawn the same & went in at the end & smoothed out the glass & reflective objects.
I initially drew everything too light & the instructor said to add more depth & darkness. If I was at home, I likely wouldn't have so thanks for that. It does look better with more contrast & depth.

I photographed these both with my 70-200 2.8 L IS II lens using my umbrella set up for my flash. Much better than before with only my flash & the WAD down. Plus, no time spent in post processing either! Very cool.