A glue bottle has distinctively curved corners and a pointed tip.
A glue bottle is a distinctly shaped container. When many people think about a glue bottle, images of the popular Elmer's brand with its unmistakable orange cap come to mind. The shape is basically a rounded rectangle topped with a pointed, twist-off cap. By following a few simple steps, you can sketch one of these containers quite easily.
Instructions
1. Draw a large rectangle about six inches tall and four inches wide. Use a ruler to draw straight lines.
2. Erase the four straight corners of the rectangle and draw curved lines instead. This is the main body of the bottle.
3. Draw a tiny rectangle on top of the center of the body of the glue bottle. Make its width about one inch and its height only a few millimeters. This is the neck of the bottle that will connect to the cap.
4. Draw another rectangle centered on top of the neck. Make it slightly wider than the neck and about one centimeter tall. This is the bottom of the cap. Make the ridges on the bottom of the cap by drawing a series of closely spaced vertical lines in this area.
5. Draw the pointed cap, centered atop of the bottom part of the cap. Make the shape about one inch tall. Slant each side of the pointed cap inward symmetrically to form the point at the top.
6. Shade the left side of the bottle, using the side of your pencil. To convey dimension, gradually lighten the shading as you move inward with your pencil toward the center of the bottle.
