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BASICALLY, IT IS TO BE PRINTED ON A4.

There is a line that cuts the A4 paper into the above size and it serves as my margin so that when i bind my book, i know that i cannot exceed this line. But luckily for ya'll, i am no longer lazy and cropped all the pages to what you should see in my book (excluding the binding portion).

The recipes are kind of self explanatory from the text so please click on the image to enlarge to read more about the recipe,

and i would just talk about the materials and how i did it.

I used illustrator to create the front page and all the text. Going for a more fun and casual feel to the works, i decided to use a hand writing font, as if it was hand written out. Also, i changed some words and ingredients to represent what they meant, like "hard" would be seen as "HARD".

For the front page, i made it cute and bubbly, hence the polaroids are outlined with a dash line, instead of a hard line, to make it more jumpy and playful. Also, the block letters are in a very child like manner, making it seem happy and joyful. I also added in polaroids as to me, polaroids are like capturing important moments, just like how all kinds of food are important, and that every ingredient added is also important. It makes up the recipe, just like how our characteristics make us up.

The drawings are all done in colour pencil or sometimes water colour and then scanned in. They are then used as back ground images or page numbers or pictures in the polaroid.

I decided that for every step of the recipe, i would use a food to represent the page number, which is a idea suggested from Mrs Tan, and i feel that it really makes my work stand out a little bit more :)

Also, the background images used to be smacked right in the centre which was very distracting indeed, so I shifted them around, cropped them off the page, etc. I hope that my final composition actually helps to lead the viewer's eyes to the text and the main point of the recipe. To me it did, but hopefully to ya'll it did the same!

The last page of the recipe would be an illustration of the works "coming to life" where by the ingredients come together to create the recipe, it is very representative and if you read the steps and the description of the recipe, it would be reflected in the works.

1st recipe: Chocolate Lava Cake

the drawing is to show that the cake stands out strong in the ruins of shattered chocolate. To show that it is rebuilt and stronger than before, that one's self esteem is higher than before. I placed it in the centre as the crushed chocolate also emphasizes the cake, they are of different sizes to show the different extents to how much one's self esteem can be crushed, be it very small, or still quite a large piece. And the chocolate that flows out shows the process of being molten before, that this is no easy journey. The ingredients that pour into the cake such as: Butter, Eggs, Milk, Flour, and Sugar, are actually representative of attitudes one should adopt in order to rebuild one's self esteem when it is crushed. To understand more, please click on the steps :)

I hope that the words would help to enhance the feelings of the work.