Discord Weekly Design Challenge 002: Bottle it Up!
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtFundamentals/comments/7k457l/discord_weekly_design_challenge_002_bottle_it_up/
2017-12-16 01:21
Uncomfortable
It's still Friday, so I'm not late. Here's next week's discord weekly challenge theme (join us over at #weekly-challenge!).
Bottle it Up! You've found the elixir of life - now design a bottle worthy to contain it!
This is our first non-character challenge. You're going to be using a lot of cylindrical principles, like building around the minor axis, so be sure to take a look at the 250 cylinder challenge.
I want you guys to get in the habit of generating a lot of silhouettes (brush pens can be great for this if you're working traditionally, and digital media works well for this too). Iterate, iterate, iterate. Always.
And use reference! Bottles come in all shapes and sizes, and back in the day they didn't know how to give the glass bottles they blew flat bases - so they used rope to create a base for the rounded vessels. Things like that can inform your design decisions and help you create interesting results.
Also, if you're painting glass, familiarize yourself with the concept of 'rim light' and the fresnel effect.
Some examples to mull over:
