responsive: delicious mess brief

The Brief & Email:

i was approached by a photographer who was creating a food photography style cookbook. they asked me to create some illustrations to go along with the book, and also to do the typography and writing. the style that they wanted was it was a 'student' cookbook and it was like someone had been making up recipes and scribbling it down in a notebook.

because they wanted this kind of style i decided to go with using photoshop and one of my kyle webster brushes which was 'animator pencil'. i used this because i think it really gives a good pencil effect and makes it look realistic but also professional at the same time and easy to read. i also did some doodles and small illustrations on some pages with scribbles etc. because i wanted the book to feel like a real student was doing it, and maybe getting bored occasionally so they would doodle while waiting for food to cook.

i'm really happy with how this brief turned out and although it was a lot of work (27 pages) i think it was worth it because i'm really proud of the outcome. 
it was really interesting for me to find different styles and ways of working that i could do and also collaborating with a photographer which i never thought that i would do.

i would like to do this sort of thing in the future and maybe find more briefs where i can utilise my profesional doodle skills and photography.