Coffee, tea, milk, orange juice, wine, and cocktail. Common beverages we all love to drink. This is an illustrative series of beverages that I recently created. I have a doodle of a coffee cup on an old styrofoam coffee cup that I drew on, years ago. I thought I’d make a digital illustration of it in Adobe Illustrator for fun. After finishing the coffee cup, I thought, maybe I could use it as a template to make another beverage. Hence came the green tea. I was amazed by how just changing the colors and the background could make such a difference.

This inspired me to make more illustrations of other common beverages, using the same concepts. This time, the milk and orange juice are in glass cups. This was a new challenge, for drawing glass requires transparency. I had fun fiddling around with colors, opacity, and filters.

My last two pieces are of alcoholic drinks, more specifically, wine and cocktail. As you can see, these two don’t have the same concept as the other pieces — the same container with different colors. This is because wine and cocktail use different glassware. However, I did try to keep it consistent by keeping the similar bowl shape as well as color gradients.

I hope you enjoy these illustrations as much as I had fun making them. I look forward to creating more illustrative series to share them with you in the future!