Fritz's Sketchbook

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Here how i would recommend you approch studying material if you follow my advice.
You don't simply copy you have to understand what make the material reflective or not.This is what is tricky.My advice try to find a close up image of the object to really understand how the light bounce or get lost(absorb).

It good idea to have a varierty of object made of different materiel near by to observe them under real light condition to supplement from drawing from reference if you can afford do it worth it.

A good example of thing you can find around that make a good variety of object would be something like.A piece of wood
a piece of food,a piece of cloth,a tin can,a plastic Bootle,a piece of fake fur and some utensil.

Best is to have a room where you can control the lightsource.For example it a good idea if you have a basement to use it since there little to no light there.

You can find alot of texture to study just enter: material study in a search engine and click the image section.