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I drink a lot tea, so I thought it would be interesting to research the process tea leaves go through in order to end up in the packets I use to make my chai tea every morning. I was luckily able to find a website that offered detailed descriptions of just that. Along with them, the site also provided reference diagrams, which were really helpful. There was, however, somewhat of a disparity between the two, so I had some trouble at first distinguishing which steps went with each description. (Some steps had diagrams, while others didn’t and there were additional diagrams that weren’t really explained in the text.) I ended up combining some and breaking up others.

As for the actual illustration of the process, it was relatively straightforward. There were some steps that required me to do cut-away diagrams, which is something I don’t have too much experience with. I think the method I chose to accomplish them worked out well, though. In addition, drawing the small tea leaves was tedious for some of the tips, but once I drew them once, I was able to reuse them in other places.

Overall, I’m happy with how my diagram came out. I think each step is pretty easy to understand and pleasant to look at.