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Share one or more photos of a project, recipe, or whatever you've made, quickly and easily.

Step by StepStep-By-Step

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How to illustrate your own Instructable

Step 13Review the end result

Review the end result
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Continue as described until you have drawn out all the steps and then review.

Does the final set of drawings match your original design plan for the instructable?

In my initial sketch I showed the bug from an different angle in the last two steps, but when I came to illustrate it properly I didn't do this because I thought it would take longer than was necessary, and didn't really add to the overall outcome. The result works fine and although it probably should have had another couple of steps in there, on the whole it works nicely.

After I have done the vector drawing, I save off each step as a jpeg, and then I put them in a special instructables folder and I am ready to write my instructable.

Have fun and if you go and look on dadcando you can see the finished bottle cap beetle project here.
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Author:KaptinScarlet(dadcando)
Eldest of five, son of two doctors, 10 years in Graphic Design and marketing, then retrained as a Biomedical Materials Engineer, don't ask me why, I think it was because I had always wanted to design ...
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