Going to BBQ this afternoon, so I'm pulling together fresh potato salad this morning. So much better than pre-made and really easy.
- Boil a batch of potatoes for 20 min.
Waxy/harder potatoes like red ones work better than russets or others you'd use for baked/mashed potatoes.
- Include an egg or two with the potatoes and boil them at the same time, but take the eggs out after the first 10 min.
- Cut the potatoes into chunks to cool, adding a bit of salt, pepper and other spices to season them. If you have malt vinegar, a dash or three here is great.
This is where you can customise the heck out of it to your taste-
How big the chunks are.
Whether you include the potato skins or not.
How much mayo you use.
All variable.
For me egg, cucumber, and dill is a must. You can add red onion, pickles, even cubed up cheddar cheese.
Salt, pepper, mustard with peppercorns, garlic powder, relish, sometimes a touch of cayenne. Again, all of it will vary with your taste.
Mix with mayonnaise, shape to fit your container and top with a light sprinkling of paprika (using a fine strainer to spread it out evenly).
Give the potato salad at least 3-4 hours in the fridge for the taste to really come together. Making it the day before works great.
It's so easy, super customizable and tastes great. No more watery/bland stuff from the grocery store.
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A quick drawing lesson for artists who struggle with street scenes/buildings-
I was giving feedback on a student layout and realized the advice here could help other people too.
Here's the construction build.
The perspective is consistent, which is a great first step.
The perspective is working, but there's a common proportion problem.
To check and adjust, we need to find the eye line used to build the scene. Follow back the perspective lines and there it is. Straight forward.
From here I add a scale figure. Sometimes I'll draw one in, but when I'm doing a lot of critiques I use an architectural figure silhouette like this instead.
I size the figure to fit on the bench and will use that to measure everything else in the scene. So far so good.
While working in animation I started doing some freelance illustration for indy RPGs.
Soon after, I joined the Udon studio and started doing illustrations for Dungeon Magazine (when it was at Paizo), Exalted and a bunch of other RPG books.
That led to networking at conventions like Origins and Gen Con, which turned into more art gigs for RPGs.
Udon wanted to expand their comic publishing and we had a great relationship with White Wolf, so that turned into developing and co-writing an Exalted comic mini-series.
In the same vein as @BizzareComics DC 10 Title challenge, if I had to pare down the Marvel publishing line to only 10 series per month, here are the iconics-
1) SPIDER-MAN - with back-up stories of Spidey-related characters
2) THE AVENGERS - big cast and big threats
3) FANTASTIC FOUR - with cosmic-related back-up stories
4) X-MEN - includes a Wolverine back-up and one other back-up story each issue
5) CHAMPIONS - Teenage heroes, with other teen hero back-up stories
6) JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY - Thor, with magic/supernatural back-up stories
7) TALES TO ASTONISH - Captain America + Iron Man
8) MARVEL KNIGHTS - Black Widow, Daredevil and other espionage /street-level heroes