Proj Study Week #4? Coke Bottle Vector Art-Illustrator

Ok, so far I've tried to recreate this coke bottle the best I can as a Illustrator vector drawing using various paint brush techniques and pen tool.  Not sure if I've done it correctly or not but I've done each image as either paint brush stroke or vector pen tool art.  I'm open for any suggestions, especially with the Coke logo as I did all of it as vector pen tool piece, and I know it has many flaws.  It's late, my family and I are on vacation this week...camping in Branson actually (they made me s'mores as I worked tonight)....so I'm quitting for the night at least.  Hopefully tomorrow I'll get a chance to take another look and maybe by then I can get some feedback from some of you.  If there was an easier way to do this, please let me know!  The next part I want to do for my final is to smooth it all out, or possibly do the photo version of it, add some ice, cold condensation dripping down sides of bottle with digital 'smoke' (aka dry ice?) and add my transparent text from last weeks project!  But for now, I'm off to bed to get a little bit of rest before my kids wake me up early for pancake breakfast over the campfire!  Night all....

Original version I'm working with....

My Illustrator vector art version, so far....

Ok, fresher eyes are looking at it this morning and I see now I still need to work on my coloring inside the bottle more, too.  I need to make my bottle color more realistic and take this overall 'coke' color just inside as the beverage itself.  I really wanted to take this into Photoshop too and add my ice, condensation on sides and dry ice blowing around the bottle, too.  Oh, and try the 3D effects thing for the bottle...in Illustrator or Photoshop?  I forget just now.  Anyway, it got to late and I was too tired to finish that part of it last night so I'll try that part of again this weekend if I can for my final project of the week?  OR if you can post a recording of anything else I should see to help me out, that'd be super!  Making my bottle more realistic from this point?  Or something else, I don't know.  Thanks and hope to have some 'digital smoke' or dry ice, ice cubes, transparent text and finishing touches to come later this week....

I think this is the one....

I think this is the bottle I want to do, for my final this week anyway.  I like all the aspects of it in the photo.  I like the smoke effects and ice because it shows how cold the beverage is.  I could even incorporate what I learned last week with the dancing 'icy' text around the bottle with water dripping down the sides to indicate it being even colder than this photo shows.  Would both the previous bottle rendering and digital smoke Illustrator and Photoshop technique recordings be used to recreate this then?  As well as what I've already learned with my transparent text project last week?

I also found these that I like, but I'm hoping to stick with the photo above....at least for my final project...and if any of these others work out for my study project or even go back to the photos I found last week to recreate some techniques with the dancing transparent 'icy' text, too.  Even combine some aspects of each to create my own version.  Guess I need to figure this all out quickly today since I'm running out of time.  And a quick how-to recreate a glass bottle recording in photoshop and/or illustrator would probably be helpful for me too.

I like this very much...nice!  Just isn't very 'refreshing'...can't use my other techniques learned as much.

This one is still very nice to recreate or at least add some of the elements to any of the above.  I really like how the condensation is slowly dripping down the side...indicating how cold it is.  And I'm confident I can come up with some 'refreshing' transparent text again dancing around the outside or whatever like I did last week.  That was a fun project and I'd like to sort of incorporate it into this weeks project too if I can.

Coke Bottle Reproduction-Proj Study Week 4

I like both of these versions of the coke bottle but I think I'm going to go with the top one.  Seems a bit more challenging and I assume it's mostly in basic vector drawing in Illustrator.  I'll see if I can't tackle this one with some techniques I've already learned on the previous recordings but if there's anything special we haven't covered, let me know.  The one thing I see so far is how am I going to do the Coca- Cola logo imprinted on the bottle.  I know that's not just simple text so it'll have to be a vector drawing I suppose?  Thanks!

I like this photo for a possible Week #4 Proj Study

I'm still looking for some better images to use but here's one I found on Coke's website I really liked.  I'm particularly interested in the full green coke bottle, second over from the far right red bottle.  I will post more coke bottles in high res once I find them.

A Few NEW Ideas to Consider for Week #4 Project Study...

Here are just a few ideas to consider for week #4's project studies.  I really like old retro ads and the older the better sometimes.  These are some especially well-known brands that I really like the look and feel.  It would be interesting to see how to recreate them in Illustrator and Photoshop.  I'm sure they weren't created that way originally.  I have others if these aren't retro enough.