I created these perfume bottles for an interview I did with Frances Shoemack, the owner of Abel Organics, for my journal The Hungry Child. You can read the journal entry over here.
I created my own version of the sideview of their bottles, since the side provided a view of the liquid and the glass, whilst the front, wrapped in wood, covered these. I created my shapes in illustrator before exporting them to photoshop and building up the textures and colours through clipping masks. All of the wood textures were created layering my own photos (apart from one, the third bottle, was created through a free online wood texture) or scanned in wooden objects. The glass, liquid, and top were created through extensive layering of my ever growing library of homemade textures.
I'm building up this library by creating new colour and paint experiments on a weekly basis, as well as scanning random scraps of paper, and taking photos of scratches, grit, and grunge.
The watercolour experiments are not so much watercolour as they're coloured inks (acrylics, shellacs, some liquid watercolours) and homemade paints (red and yellow onion skin, hibiscus, red beet, ...).
I created a gif of my steps, some steps were so minimal that I didn't end up adding them, and some of the steps (shadows & highlights) were created in a slightly different order. But, it should give you a good idea of the process.
