Glass perfume bottle

**Purrfeck** · 23 October 2007, 11:01 PM

Thanks for your great comments Snow`Star, joscari and David O'Neil.

It's been a bit of a learning curve for me making this perfume bottle and it continually amazes me what you can produce with the Xara program.

In fairness to the cars, there's been some really fine examples of cars on this forum but there would be considerable less to look at without them being there.

It is nice to have something else to look at though I have to admit.

Cheers
Michele

**gray** · 24 October 2007, 01:01 AM

Very nice effects, purrfecK.

**Purrfeck** · 24 October 2007, 01:49 PM

Thanks Gray, nice to hear from you.

Cheers
Michele

**barrym67** · 26 October 2007, 07:00 PM

I'd feel left out and it wouldn't be right if I did not say well done!! I can just see all us members giving Purrfeck a standing ovation! Truly magnificent. Inspiring. Take a bow.

**-=Drifter=-** · 27 October 2007, 01:00 PM

Absolutely stunning! Awesome job! You are truly talented. More, please.

**BNorton** · 30 October 2007, 10:33 PM

A wonderful job. I hope my wife does not see it....she may want some.

Brian

**Thor** · 30 October 2007, 10:41 PM

Just one word .. Amazing

**ss-kalm** · 31 October 2007, 01:36 AM

I find it hard to believe that that is not a photograph. Excellent job.

**gwpriester** · 01 November 2007, 01:16 PM

The shadow is very wrong. But the rest of the drawing is exquisite.

It has a bit of the feeling of the chalk drawings on canson paper that the industrial design students used to do in art school where they used the color of the paper for the main part of the object and just added highlights and shadows.

Just a magnificent drawing. All I can add is MORE please.

Gary

**Purrfeck** · 05 November 2007, 06:50 AM

Thanks you guys - barrym67, -=Drifter=-, Brian, Thor, ss-kalm & Gary for all your comments since I've been away.

WOW everyones been busy and posting some fantastic stuff on the forums, its great to see new things!

I just wanted to say, the perfume bottle is not a photograph!

I did make it in Xara & I do have the actual perfume bottle and yes I have worked from a photograph to produce it, because the lighting changes quickly. Not all the refraction has been included, as I didn't think it necessary. The mottled background was made with over stretched tree bark bitmap and transparent coloured square placed over the top.
Plain glass tends to pick up any colour thats placed behind it - so I could have used any other colour but it looks better when the colour is similar to the colours already used. The brown shades in this pic happen to be reflections of wooden chairs!
Some of the colours in the bottle are blends, & there are many various fades & transparencies to get the look. Lighting is coming in from the left and to make it more interesting, I added my own touch of lighting at the back to light up an otherwise dull centre, and I added lighting on the side wall as well.
(This probably cancels out the shadow).
The shadow that did not please, (it does appear in the photo), has since been removed and I have added some lines to stop the bottle 'floating'. I thought a few fabric folds would add to the picture without detracting from the bottle itself...

It's by no means perfeck but I had a lot of fun making it & I am pleased with the result.

Here's a revised 'new look'.

Cheers
Michele