Approach

I started by writing the Albanian lyrics to Suus on a long strip of paper. I wrote the lyrics in a different handwriting from usual, one that I'd often take on in high school when I was feeling particularly emotional. It involves much more downward and flowing strokes than my usual handwriting, and tends to fall down the piece of paper slowly as I write. However, the ribbon ended up being about four feet long, which is much more than I expected, and certainly too much to wrap around a tiny flask while keeping the contents visible. In the end, I only kept the lyrics that I felt were most important. The rest can be seen in the photo below.

I then stuffed the flask with tissue paper and cut off the remainder so that it would not be flowing out of the top. I then drew the figures, sketching them in pencil before filling them in with black gel pen. I cut them out and stuffed them inside in the appropriate places, I then taped the remaining lyrics to the neck of the flask and shifted the tissue paper to obscure parts of the figures, so it could look like the tissue paper was starting to overtake them. To finish off, I attacked the top of the tissue paper with a red gel pen to add the red streaks.