Hand Illustrated
Perfume Bottles
This project began as a doodle to explore my thoughts around form and texture painting. I had recently begun teaching myself how to use Blender and drawing forms to model in the program gave way to an idea: perfume bottles. Simple sketches turned illustration mockups for a 3D project I hope to revisit!
The Process:
To create the line of perfume I experimented with curved forms and motifs to distinguish each bottle. After I roughed out the line work for each bottle and I added color from a limited palette to create character. As a traditional painter I used as little layers as I could to create the 3D effect for the bottle & liquid, relying on blending modes and actual hand blending to achieve an illusion of form.
The color palette I curated had to be versatile. I opted for a full range of warm and cool tones. The color palette had to be expansive to tie the color choices of each bottle directly to their scents. In my mind, each bottle had to look comparable to how it may smell in the real world. Jewel tones and green for a flower bottle, gold and purple for a midnight sea, or blue and green for a beach inspired scent.