Q&A for How to Draw a Water Bottle

I'd suggest drawing the basic shape of the bottle first, then going to the label, cap, details, etc.

Follow these steps, but add a label that says "Sprite" and make the bottle green-yellow with dots in it for bubbles.

You just have to write that it is mineral water on the label when you draw it.

Instead of using pencil, use a colored pencil and continue using these steps. When you come to the step of drawing the liquid inside the bottle, use a shadow pencil or a grey and fill up the bottle as much as you want with the grey.

Drawing a metal water bottle, it might help to find references online. Study the images and try to recreate them. What helps make it look more realistic is studying the way light reflects off of the metal, and the way the metal changes in color with the shadows. If you have a metal water bottle at home, you can use that for reference and inspect that as well. Drawing a metal water bottle uses the same process as drawing any other water bottle, you just have to take into note that light is affected by metal different than the way it is affected by plastic.

If you're drawing a crushed plastic water bottle, try taking an empty one from your house and crushing it, then use it as a model. Study the way that the plastic caves in on itself and overlays the other indents after it has been crushed. Try to recreate this on paper, paying attention to the details of the lines and the way the water bottle sits and reacts to the light, including its shadows.

If you have already drawn your bottle, you can draw a teardrop shape where the water is dripping from the bottle. Then draw little dome shapes where water is collecting on the bottle if it is collecting on the sides of the image. If not, draw circles. then add your color, highlights, and shading to the droplets. Try adding white to make them look more realistic.