Just a quick note. This is the first time that mum and I make swiss rolls. Mum is really good at making chiffons, so instead of making sponge cakes, we use chiffon as the body for the roll. We replace the usual whipped cream with custard, because cream is too fat :p Since it's just a tryout, I didn't take any pictures for the process. Next time we'll make a fruit roll, and then I will record the process with a much detailed recipe. | 快速記錄一下。 這是我跟媽第一次做瑞士卷。因為媽很擅長做戚風,所以沒有使用海綿蛋糕,而是以戚風當作瑞士卷的主體。我們也把通常使用的鮮奶油夾心改成卡士達醬,因為鮮奶油太肥了:p 因為這只是試做,所以我沒有拍照記錄過程。下次會做個水果口味的,我會再記錄下過程,寫下比較詳細的食譜。 |
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Based on BBC Food
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/scones_1285
From Lady Gaga - Applause Painted with iPad and Sketchbook Express The free app Sketchbook Express offers limited brush and tool, so I decide to recreate Applause a watercolor-like computer graphic with only pencil tool, soft and hard brushes. The hard brush is always too cartoonish, and the soft one often blurs too much and is not precise. This time, I try to combine the two brushes to make it much authentic. Therefore, I lowered the opacity of the hard brush, and dot the color spectrum like crazy. There will be white gaps between the dots, and these are the rooms for the soft brush, with various low opacities and color spectrum, to drag and blur the color dots. Lastly, use really low opacity like 0.1 with the soft brush to add shades. Done without blurring tools! I do enjoy this new way of doodling, and thanks Gaga for this! Ha! Below is the progress: Applause!
For me, sketching with iPad is a comfort in comparison with using Adobe. Sketchbook Express makes doodling on iPad easy and quite professional. Though the free version only provides three layers, that is quite enough for simple structured illustrations. The layers can be repositioned, and can be tuned to different opacities. I would use the first layer to line out the figure, and then add another layer under the line-layer for coloring. In this coloring layer, I will generally paint it with base colors in low opacity and then add two to three layers of shades. Finally, I would erase the lines of the parts that I've finished specific coloring and depictions or just delete the lining layer. While coloring, pressing the stylus for a few seconds enables you to capture the right color on the canvas. As for the third layer on the top, I usually add titles and signature. To garnish, I use Snapseeds to tune the saturation, contrast and so on, to make it a different style.
In short, the combination of Sketchbook Express and Snapseed is a shortcut for the lazy bones who don't want to work on Mac with Adobe and only want to doodle on the sofa. (Picture based on NHK Drama, Yae no Sakura poster) (The images are enhanced and published on Instagram) Being a deer and cat addict, I've started a new illustration project on animals. For coherency, I use similar out-linings and low ambiance, warm colors. Usually I'd like to add two Chinese characters as title; sometimes with pun in them sometimes not.
This is probably the first time I choose to do illustrations on Chinese typography for I can't find any good Chinese font so far. This is also an important moment, somewhat an epiphany, to embrace my love for Chinese characters again. Back to the college years, when I was designing posters for Dept. of English, I used English (for the department demands?) to "decorate" my design. There were more font choices in English, and I thought English fonts looked better than Chinese fonts. But this was certainly not right. I was just being lazy. Perhaps it was due to my poor skill on Chinese calligraphy or even in hand writing. Perhaps I spent less time on Chinese than on English. And perhaps all these laziness have to do with my obstacles of being creative. And then I thought of Van Gogh, Art Nouveau, and all the painters who were influenced by Japanese and Chinese paintings. I realized that I might detour my passage to design sources way too far to a too modernist, too Americanized style, and I lost mine. Therefore, I grabbed my love for minimalism I found from the pop culture, and went a little backward to Art Nouveau and its Asian pals. I don't know where these mixtures will lead me to, maybe something quite ordinary and plain, but I'm gaining back my own style little by little.
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