How to illustrate your own Instructable

Step 6 Remember perspective

Perspective makes things look right and it makes them look dynamic. It is what cartoonists use to make their drawing come alive.

I want my bottle top to be on a small piece of card, it makes it look really cool if it is shown with a bit of dynamic perspective.

1: Draw a rough shape as you think it should go and how you want it to look.
2: Draw perspective lines round the shape so that they meet on a common horizon (that is your virtual eye-line), because we are looking down on the bottle cap (we can see the top of it) the horizon will be above the bottle cap. Practice with this, how far above the cap the horizon line is, will determine how much of the top of the cap you can see.
3: To give the card thickness, clone the rectangular shape you created and drag it down a small amount (visually the thickness of the card)
4 & 5: Make a new point somewhere on the line of the lower rectangle and pull up the line so that it meets the corner of the top rectangle
6: Send the rectangle to the back
7: Select a simple light colour or tone for the top of the card, so that it contrasts with the bottle cap and fill the rectangle. I chose a cardboard colour and made the edge slightly darker.