Making Daifuku

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Project: Instructional Illustration

This is class work (WIP)

In this project, I made a series of illustrations for a Lucky Peach Magazine spread to help their audience understand how to cook a recipe of my choice.

Lucky Peach Magazine is a quarterly journal about food and culture. Their art and photography is bright, fun and playful, and often humorous. They have recipes and articles that are described as thoughtful and witty. Their demographic appears to lean towards women 20-50 years old.

I choose to illustrate a recipe for daifuku, a simple Japanese dessert made with mochi, red bean paste and fruit. I wanted to illustrate a recipe I knew. And while I've never made daifuku, I have made mochi with red bean filling before, so the instructions were familiar enough.

When it came to the illustrations themselves, I wanted to make something sweeter and softer than usual, with subtle colors, shading and delicate lines. Also since I was doing a Japanese dessert, I decided it should be cute. I drew every object with simple curved shapes and faint pink lines. The line work was done by hand and the spread was digitally colored.

*This is currently a WIP. In the future, I'd like hand write the text and do more shading.

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