Workshop
Who is the chef in your sketchbook?
November 2024
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Who is the chef in your sketchbook?
Volume 1 / Christmas baking
(Course language: English)
Illustrating your favourite recipe with charming characters:
Easy character design and illustrated step-by-step instructions
Have you ever thought about making your own recipe collection or even a cookery book? In this workshop we’ll talk about creating quaint little characters that have the ability to show you how to prepare some food in an informative and entertaining way!
Firstly, we’ll create an iconic character for your personal recipe. What kind of animal, monster or other creature suits your chosen dish? Does your character have an assistant or a funny sidekick? Is there even a little story you would like to tell?
Secondly, we’ll work on illustrating the process of preparing a dish step by step in a sequence of exploratory and funny drawings. Here your characters may show their hidden talent as a chef or baker! Make your creatures stir and knead, cut and chop, cook and bake, nibble and woofle!
Last but not least, we’ll take a closer look at how to draw a variety of ingredients and kitchen tools.
Using humorous illustrations to explain the workflow of cooking, baking or manufacturing any other products is a useful and charming way to show how things work. These infographics are easy to understand and help to explain a complex work process.
Now let’s draw yummy dishes and funny kitchens, crazy characters and terrific tools! It’s going to be an unforgettable feast!
The facts
- A workshop by Lotte Wagner
- 5 hours, 12:00 until 5:00 pm
Sunday (just one meeting) - We met online using Zoom.
What you need
A list of materials and art supplies: You can choose your favourite drawing materials, such as pencils and pens, fine-liners, brushes and ink, markers, brush-pens and ballpens, watercolours and coloured pencils.
Moreover, you need some sheets of cheap paper (A4 and A3) and your sketchbook. Tracing paper or a light drawing board might be helpful too. Of course, you can use your digital drawing devices as well.
Other things we need:
Please bring your favourite recipe for one of the assignments. Make sure that you choose a recipe which is not too difficult to prepare, for example, a stirred cake, a pasta dish, a soup or a stew. We need a list of the ingredients, measurements and a short description of the workflow.
If you can’t find a recipe you like, don’t worry. I always have some nice ones in stock that I can provide.
For the Zoom meetings you need a proper internet connection, your computer camera, some light on your desk and a smartphone or tablet to take pictures of your drawings.