I'd buy that!! I think the label on the bottle is a little too square though, it seems off somehow and I can't explain it. The part closest to the bottom of the picture, but maybe it's just me.

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you arnt allowed to submit anything thats traced. I really like the idea though!

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Are you sure Locust? I guess I would assume that I'm allowed to upload this because it doesn't look exactly like the picture and I (and only I) own the photo that was taken as reference. The original photo isn't even online for anyone to see. I just reread the thread for "What is Tracing, Eyeballing, Referencing" and because I've used only references that I have made myself I think I'm okay? All of the examples they used were using images that weren't their own. And I'm making my own wine bottle design that doesn't use any references from the wine bottle I used. If anyone who makes these kinds of decisions disagrees please tell me so I can fix it!

And also when I say "traced" I mean roughly - I'm an artist, so I use references but the final result usually ends up pretty different than the originaI. Also I never use references that aren't my own.

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(I have no idea if the no-tracing rule still applies in your case, but I thought I'd critique the decor anyway, because why not?)

I agree with Moony that this is a great idea for a decor; lions deserve the right to be wine snobs too!

I also agree with them about the label not looking like it's curving around the bottle. I'd suggest making the bottom part of the label less like a trapezoid and more like a square, and using shading to suggest the curve.

I think the only other issue, and probably the one that's causing the "weirdness" is that the bottle and glass don't look like they're lying on the same surface as the lion; the ground under the bottle and glass looks curved, but the ground under the lion is flat. I'm not sure how you'd fix that, though - maybe more shading beneath the objects?

On a more positive note, I like how you added the shine to the glass and made a kind of circular gradient for the wine; it really looks realistic!

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I'm not sure about Lioden in rules ussing your own references but if you took the refernce pictures yourself then you can do whatever you want with them, including tracing, sine you own the original picture (excluding any band names or designs on the wine label, but yours is blank so your safe ^.^)
I agre with purrfect, the angle of the bottle seems at odds with the lioness and glass, the bottom of it also looks askew to me like it wouldn't be flat if standing up. I also think the bottle needs a tiny bit of a thicker shadow along its body.
The glass looks really fantastic though and they both have great detail and highlights

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These are just my opinions.

When I focus on just the glass and ignore the lion or the bottle, I feel like I'm looking at it from a 135-ish degree angle - whereas I feel like I'm looking at the lion from a 45-ish degree angle. The "light source" is different for them. I think if the shadowing on the glass was on the other side it would feel better and feel more like it was inline with the lioness. In regards to the bottle, the label needs to be less squared off. If the line was slightly more curved towards the top of the bottle, it would look slightly better I think.

I do love the detail and the highlight on the artwork though. Especially the glass itself and the wine inside of it and the top of the bottle is very well done. I hate wine and I love this art - so that says something!

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