Drawing Your Favorite Brand

by Dayna Winters.

Today's art prompt in the October 31 Day Art Journal Challenge was to incorporate the label of one of my favorite brands into a piece of art.  I chose to draw of Opium perfume.  It's a fragrance I have loved for many years! I incorporated a few other items to make the sketch more interesting...a picture of  an antique, handheld mirror, and a few beautiful vintage perfume bottles.  I decided to use graphite pencil for the drawing and leave the image in black and white.

The bottle to the left side of the drawing reminded me of a bottle my grandmother had - or at least it was something similar.  I remember the metal meshwork at the bottom of the bottle and the unusual shape/design.  I had a great time using the new blending sticks/stumps I picked up - they are made of tightly wrapped paper and they make blending the graphite into a smooth design extremely easy to do.  

Before I was relying on an old eraser or my fingers to blend the lines and shading.  They come in a multi-pack of 10 with different sizes, lengths, widths, and tips.  You can see a larger image of the blending sticks below.  The blending stumps do a far better job.  I got them for relatively little expense and highly recommend them.  I'm using Loew-Cornell Blending Stumps and Tortillons made of tightly wrapped soft paper felt.  You can get them in a 10 pack for just under $6.00.