Lemon Still life

This is part of a larger still life that I am still working on. I did this for Rudy Gardea's Illustrator class. Credits go out to him for being such an inspiration.

This was my first large project in Illustrator next to a self portait I had also done.

Overall this took me around 50 hours as I had traced out every single detail. Which I understand makes it more of a photo that an illustration but I was looking for pure realism.

Heres the outline btw
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