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Measure · 3 of 4 · 6 min

The envelope first

Before the bottle's curves, draw the box it would ship in. Detail added too early freezes a bad proportion.

1
Width against height
The whole still life has one bounding box. Is it wider than it is tall? Draw that rectangle lightly and commit to it.
2
Then the inner boxes
Each object gets its own box inside the big one. The cup is not as tall as the bottle. Say so with rectangles before ellipses.
3
Curves last
Only when the boxes are right do you cut the silhouette. If a curve sticks out of its box, the box was the truth and the curve is the mistake.

Critique

The group fits one rectangle you could state as a ratio
The bottle is taller than the cup inside that rectangle
No curve escapes its own box
Detail arrived after proportion

Eye height at a door Equal things, unequal gaps

Drill

Guide

Respect the outer box. Place each object inside it before you follow a curve.