BTNElixirMana

[Moderator]

17:23, 9th Apr 2015
Apheraz Lucent: Glass is one of the trickiest textures to make, as it requires a lot of practicing to get it done. I strongly suggest you to look up on not one, but several tutorials about digital painting glass on the internet, simply because there's a lot of ways you can do it, and you just need to find the one which suits you the most.

Apart from that, it would be lovely to see some sort of liquid inside the potion, as currently it looks like a flask. Mana in Warcraft, in general, tends to be blue, but turquoise color you've went with can also do the trick, if either the background effects or the potion itself are blue, and the other thing is of that color.

Also, I suggest you to look up to some other potions on this site, just to see how they executed the shadows on non-glass parts of the icon.

I'll set this to Awaiting Update, and I hope you'll work some more, as you've got a great base to work from, and it's a good start for a first icon

 

[Heinvers]

This instantly reminded me of these.

I'm afraid that in its current state it's just a blob of color with no proper texture/shading/lighting that won't get approved.

So, a peak on these would help you get a proper hold of basic shading, lighting, color, texture etc.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc.

 

[The Panda]

Very solid you need to make it seem like glass like this for example. And, then after you make it seem like a glass bottle you add the "Mana" inside floating around like this.

 

[BLazeKraze]

Creating glass illusion is quite hard , but there's many technique to do ...
Just observe some potion icon here...