Recipe: Flan

You like eating? Well, no shit you do. But someone's gotta make it, right? I've been making some stuff recently, so I thought I'd share some food pics and recipes for once because that's helluva more interesting than my doodles.

First, what I endeavored to make today: flan. Sounds like something you'd find in porridge, but looks more like creme caramel. And also very popular with the animus.

I pretty much tried to make this:

But 100x less cute.

Nah, mine's looked like this.

Sides came out a little uneven, probably from the water boiling a little when I steamed the flan. And I think I should've caramelized the sauce a little darker, but I don't like the burnt taste homemade caramel gives off. And I think the pudding could've been a little sweeter, but the texture was smooth so it's all good.

Recipe's really simple. All you need is:

• 9 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp water
• 250 mL milk
• 2 eggs

And that shit makes four flans right there. I could tell you the recipe, too, but Cooking With Dog does a better job.

...and some more stuff I did for the school

Except, this time, it wasn't a contest so I was guaranteed to get it.

The picture's self explanatory as to what it's for. As for the usage, it's supposed to be a place mat. Regardless of it going to be stained and signed on by grads, I still put some effort into making the colouring at least look passable.

Check it out, dawg:

You guys get some of the references? They're movie references.

It was the same person who judged the agenda covers who also took care of the placemats, except this time, she actually liked what we did.

It's actually a collab with a friend. Since I have no originality for these things, and she outlined the Japan Day poster I never uploaded onto here, she drew it and I coloured and tweaked a couple of things in PS. I also added all the random copyrighted things around the picture, including Ronald McDonald's head (which was heavily supported by my sister, albeit smaller than she wanted). I think there were some issues with the whole copyrighted thing, though, but when I told my art teacher that I could change it, he was like "I wouldn't." So there it'll stay.

A couple of days ago, my art teacher handed us the very first copies of the place mat. Looks pretty good, especially since I made the sure the picture was big enough to print out onto that size properly without looking pixelly and ugly. The wood didn't turn out so good, though, but I purposely put a filter on it that made it kind of grainy. Oh well, that's not the focus of the picture anyways.


Coloured in openCanvas.
Edited in Photoshop.

I'd better at least get the backcover

EDIT: Okay, I wrote this before the winners were announced. You do not want to know who won (though all the entries - save like three - were all hilariously bad. I'm not mean enough to display them here, though.

Annually, my school would hold a contest for the next year's agenda cover. Two years ago, I made something, but forgot to hand it in. Instead of getting something relevant to our school and mascots, instead, we got this ugly-ass compilation of someone's portraits of random people, arranged on a blue background, with the school name printed in some cookie-cutter 3D word art I used to make all my titles in as a kid. Not saying that the portraits were bad - no, they were fine - but what do Twilight people have to do with my school (other than asking if they could use the school to film the high school scenes in Breaking Dawn), or Michael Phelps for that matter? Seriously, everyone I showed it to laughed. I vowed to submit my entry next year.
But then next year came, they pulled a dick move and changed the contest regulations that we all knew and loved. So now we're not allowed to use our school mascots or emblems, but instead focus on our motto of the year, "Killarney Cares". Lame. We ended up with a pencil crayon picture of stick people encircling the school. Better than last year, and we actually got to vote for it this time. Second place was a cover consisted of two stick people with our school name underneath it.

Anyways, end of tl;dr. What you needed to take from that is when I didn't submit something, something worse became the cover. No, not this year, dammit! It's a good thing we got use cougars and shamrocks again.

Sketch:

Cover:

Event File.

Thank you Google images for all the inspiration. Sure, you'll give me creepy pictures when I image search for "cougar", mainly hunters going "YEAH!" while holding up a dead cougar, and even a box of decapitated human heads, but...
(Maybe I should consider turning on my mature filter again...)

Only took me two days, and a big big improvement from the one I did two years ago. I was so proud of it, too, but now when I compare it:

Yeah. Not as blurry, I can say. Better text, too.


Made in openCanvas.
Edited in Photoshop.