Month: November 2015

mamodewberry:

I just realized @gabapple has acquired her pink brush pens and has not yet drawn pink Kisumi foxes. That was the reason those pink brush pens were purchased. Why are there no Pink Kisumi Foxes??

h-HEY NOW

those pink kisumi brush pens turned out to be a CHIN STRAP that I sent back to Amazon and the new ones haven’t been shipped to me yet. T___T ;;;

I do have A pink brush pen… which I did this with… but it’s not quite right… 

Red velvet isn’t even a chocolate cake so that may be why you like it. It’s a buttermilk cake that uses a small amount of cocoa powder, I believe originally added to help make it that red color through some crazy chemistry thing (there’s a pretty interesting history behind it)

With the PH and all? Yeah, you’re probably right. Mmmm red velvet is delicious. 

I wonder why the devil’s food, though… is it the melted chocolate in normal cakes that I have trouble with? Am I not opposed to cocoa powder? 

I like hot cocoa when it’s watered down and smothered in whipped cream… 

(( Milk chocolate or dark chocolate? I like dark chocolate, don’t like milk chocolate at all. ))

I don’t like either of them. They’re both gross and taste bitter to me 90% of the time. If I have to have chocolate (for certain times of the month he he), a handful of peanut butter m&ms with popcorn and milk will do… sometimes I will eat a twix if I am desperate. Even the chocolate cakes that I do like have to be paired with milk or ice cream or I just can’t eat it. 

I would consider it torture to have to eat a hershey’s bar… and I have been known to eat around the chocolate chips in cookies… the BEST cookies are chocolate chip WITHOUT the chocolate chips. 😀

more on chocolate

Though, now that I think about it, it doesn’t even really taste like chocolate to me. Nor does German Chocolate or Red Velvet. And they don’t make me sneeze, either, which makes me think that there is a particular ingredient in chocolate that is absent and thus makes me not allergic to it… 

From wikipedia:

“Also, because of its reduced amount of cocoa butter, cocoa powder has a more intense chocolate flavor than unsweetened chocolate. Moreover, the addition of coffee is frequently used as a liquid enhance the chocolate flavor.“

Less cocoa butter? Coffee?

Well, I do like coffee. *glances at tiramisu* 

A lot of fudge brownies don’t make me sneeze, either, but regular brownies do… I love a good fudge, but chocolate squares are nasty.

And all of this reminds me of the time Aaron and I went to the M&Ms store in Vegas and how just walking into it gave me an enormous headache… 

From dyingforchocolate:

“…and often uses cocoa as opposed to chocolate for the flavor as well as coffee. The lack of melted chocolate and the addition of coffee is typically what distinguishes a Devil’s food cake from a chocolate cake…”

HMMMMM

I don’t like chocolate

and yet devil’s food with coconut pecan frosting is probs my favorite cake right now

😐 

solthrys:

No more melted tomblerones or mising skulls, yyeann!

This is my basic process for pretty much everything I draw. The key is understanding the shape of the garment you’re trying to draw and the shape of the body part you’re putting it on.

Drawing the body first forces you to make the shoe, hat, or clothes fit that body. With practice you’ll be able to skip some steps. This method works the same no matter the perspective or pose. It just relies on your knowledge of what a hat looks like from above, or what the bottom of a shoe looks like. When in doubt, just google refs. Don’t necessarily need the exact angle you’re trying to draw. Look at different pics to give you an idea of how it works in 3d.

Shoes are always a bit tricky because feet are a stupid ass shape.

It might help if you think of hats as a cylinder fitted to the person’s head to help you get the perspective right before you push in detail. note: heads aren’t circles. they’re kind of egg shaped if you look at them from the top.