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Going to be going with simple water colour illustrations, keeping them really fun and vibrant!

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This site is a great inspiration... lots of examples.

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STEP 1: Engage Your Senses

Wander through a garden, berry patch or orchard.

Visit markets and groceries, bakeries, cafes, deli's and diners.

Take note of how the food is presented and plated.

Visit a cookware shop.

Fill your sketchbook with doodles, color palettes and handlettered words and phrases.

Observe how people prepare and share food with each other.

Step 2: Identify the Job of Your Illustrated Recipe

List the kind of work or projects you would like to receive from an art director.

Create an illustration that exemplifies that goal.

Salli created this recipe because she wanted more jobs using her chunky hand lettering style. An art director saw her recipe and contacted her for a job.

STEP 3: Select a Recipe

There are 2 basic ways to select a recipe:
1) Do you have a signature dish or a favorite go-to that you make for parties or easy weeknight meals?

Favorite recipes: Maybe you have a awesome smoothie blend or a classic sandwich combo.

Family recipes: they are a great source of inspiration because they are tried and true, evoke lots of memories.

Commemorative recipes: pay tribute to the recipe's original creator while creatively documenting their recipe.

Celebratory recipes: illustrate someone's favorite recipe as a birthday present.

2) Think of things you like to eat or want to draw.

Look through cookbooks, magazines and search the Internet.

Find a recipe that is fairly uncomplicated.

Lists of ingredients and measurements are not copy-right protected so by slightly changing the title and text you can use what you find.

Simplify and edit the text.

Consider replacing text with images.

Make sure you are giving your audience all the info they need to make your recipe.

Salli made the title of her recipe more of the feature and was able to showcase her handlettering.

Farida Zaman created a series that showcase her fun painterly style, are easy to follow and have great titles.

STEP 4: Build Your Concept
Here is a list of some different ways to visually interpret your recipe:
Leave out the food.
Illustrated by Jeffrey Barata, Shane Cornell, Kathy Whyte, and Anne McCracken, respectively

STEP 5: Set Up Your File

Create your illustration to fit the standard TDAC size: 16.667" x 6.25" or 5000 x 1875 pixels.

Save your file as RGB because CMYK doesn't always interpret well online.

STEP 6: Layout Your Page

Create a composition that allows the viewer to follow your recipe.

Design appropriate space for the title and text.

Here are a variety of layouts:

Illustrated by Nina Seven

Illustrated by Clara Ezcurra

Illustrated by Laura Mayes

Illustrated by Daniela Dogliani

STEP 7: Choose your Fonts

Find a font that enhances rather than distracts from your illustration.

Consider your own handlettering.

Illustrate the title.

Avoid expressive fonts (like Curlz, Comic Sans or Papyrus)

Make sure the size is legible.

Here are good examples:

Illustrated by Julissa Mora

Illustrated by Jackie Mancuso

STEP 8: Create & Illustrate

Have fun and enjoy the process!

STEP 9: Evaluate Your Illustrated Recipe

Does your illustration showcase your skills?

Proofread 5 times! One more time :-)

Check your amounts and measurements.

Is the font legible?

STEP 10: Post and Share your Recipe

Create a 300 DPI RGB JPG of your image.

Submit your recipe to They Draw & Cook.

Post on your social media platforms.

Tag and include a description for search engine optimization.

Here are some more great examples of recipes here on TDAC:

Illustrated by Pau Morgan

Illustrated by Małgorzata Lewandowska-Zych

Illustrated by Lisa Graves

Illustrated by Kim Fleming

Illustrated by Pedro Menezes

Illustrated by Jessica McGuirl

Illustrated by Ingvard Ashby

Illustrated by Ania Wójcik

Illustrated by Tzippora Lasdun

Illustrated by Kyle Zager

Illustrated by Alex Savakis

Illustrated by Kristin Nohe Juchs

Illustrated by Koosje Koene

Illustrated by Aunyarat Watanabe
And when in doubt...add sprinkles!!!

Illustrated by Betty Turbo

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Illustrate a Recipe that Showcases Your Style - They Draw & Cook

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Wander through a garden, berry patch or orchard. Visit markets and groceries, bakeries, cafes, deli's and diners. Take note of how the food is presented and plated. Visit a cookware shop. Fill your sketchbook with doodles, color palettes and handlettered words and phrases. Observe how people prepare and share food with each other.

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For this task I first looked other example picture recipes and at how other illustrators had laid out there pages. Here is a few examples.

My double page spread was on the "Strawberry crown" Recipe. I picked this because it wasn't too short and wasn't to long and sounded like something I myself would enjoy making.

I designed two simple characters to go with the recipe sheet, a small girl and a floating robot (who would do the harmful tasks like cutting). The illustrations are simple and fun and do not distract from the text but instead help the child/children understand what to do.

The text may seem a little small but I usually draw by hand and then scan redraw it on the computer. So the text would be properly considered in size/readability when the piece is/would be redrawn.

This also applies to the colour. The colours are a little dim when done by hand but in the final I would use computer colours that would be brighter and leave the text more visible.

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For this task I first looked other example picture recipes and at how other illustrators had laid out there pages. Here is a few examples. My double page spread was on the "Strawberry crown" Recipe. I picked this because it wasn't too short and wasn't to long and sounded like something I myself would enjoy making.

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Very stylised illustration style

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Editorial illustration for Family Fun magazine - opening page and spread for the article Soup Swap, published on the February/March 2018 issue

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Funnily obnoxious colours

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Inspired by lineless art.

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Love those colours, original 1950's cookbook.

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Jennifer Johansson created a colour series only using ball point pens. This is where most of my inspiration comes from.
https://jenniferjohansson.com/blog/2017/1/2/2016-success-color

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Here is my chocolate mousse illustrated recipe. It's easy to make and a perfect recipe for chocolate lovers. I have written about how I create my illustrated recipes below. Let me know if you have any questions.

How to draw and illustrated recipe

Here is how I put an illustrated recipe comes together - the recipe for a recipe! Maybe I should I have drawn the process.

Sketch ideas and lay out the recipe

I won't draw a recipe that I haven't made, as I need to know the recipe 'works' before I draw it. This chocolate mousse recipe is an old family favourite we like to whip up for birthday parties.

The recipe shown in the illustration is made with dark chocolate. Kids who are used to sweeter puddings might come with the same comment as my son (Chocolate mousse at school is nicer!). You'll notice he finished his share though!

Once I have a recipe I do a rough sketch in pencil. At this stage, I make sure all the different ingredients and steps are included in the final drawing. I find it is easy to get engrossed in the drawing and forget some essential ingredients.

I look up reference photos on the internet, take my own or use a model. For example, I opened a chocolate bar to draw the chocolate on the left.

Final hand-drawn illustration in pen, ink, and watercolour

After a quick initial sketch, I draw the illustration full scale in pencil. Most of the time I change the layout as I go along. I erase parts of the drawing and redraw until I am happy with the composition.

I use a Staedtler pigment to ink the drawing. I found that unlike others, this pen doesn't rub off when I erase the pencil line. I choose the colours as I go along, still using references.

To look at more of my illustrated recipes, check out my recipe portfolio page or my profile on They Draw and Cook.

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Chocolate Mousse - Hand Drawn Illustrated Recipe by Sophie Peanut

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Here is my chocolate mousse illustrated recipe. It's easy to make and a perfect recipe for chocolate lovers. I have written about how I create my illustrated recipes below. Let me know if you have any questions. Here is how I put an illustrated recipe comes together - the recipe for a recipe!

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Official Sarah's Scribbles comics merchandise. Plushies, stickers, prints, books and other Sarah's Scribbles themed products.

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I plan to use pastel colours in a minimalistic style with no line art.

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I plan to illustrate a diagram of either an insect or dinosaur with labelled body parts. The image will hand rendered, and then coloured in photoshop

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I plan to illustrate a diagram of either an insect or dinosaur with labelled body parts. The image will hand rendered, and then coloured in photoshop