Still life with black pepper

The idea for “Still life with black pepper” came about after an idea my wife, Sofia, and I had to create a picture with a lot of different textures and materials. I wanted to pose the super-task myself. As such, only the most difficult-to-make and most interesting objects were chosen. After viewing a ton of professional still life photos, I collected a number of reference images and began working. I started by modeling single objects before I finished the composition and sketch. This method meant models were created and edited throughout the evolution of this piece thereby skipping detailed overview of modeling stage.

The making of “Still life with black pepper” by Daniil Alikov