This is a piece that I modified from my drawing class. The purpose was to create a set of instructions that did not need any verbal directions to be understood. I chose guacamole as my subject as I thought it was a fun topic that would be interesting to illustrate. To begin this project, I went to the store and bought all of these ingredients, and then photographed my roommate actually making guacamole in order to have reference photos so I would have a better understanding of perspectives and hand positioning. Working from these images I used Illustrator to draw all of these images, and then worked on organizing the ingredients, steps, and title in the way that I believed was the most legible. By placing the ingredients next to their respective steps it makes it clearer and places specific ingredients with an action.
Fun Fact: this is my own personal guacamole recipe!
To give context to the instructional drawings that I made, I decided to create a recipe page from a magazine. When thinking of what type of magazine this would be placed in, my mind went to a magazine like Martha Stewart. Going with this idea, I researches the page size of Martha Stewart's magazine (9" x 10.8125") and what her recipe pages typically resemble, and using that as a guide, I organized my drawings and the steps I created into a two column structure.
The original piece I based the above on.
Preliminary sketch of what I wanted my drawings to look like.