Jasmine's Daily Sketch Bi-Monthly

Hey there,

I’ve been gone for a while. I’ve missed posting here, it’s all art and pretty much no reblogs. I’ve been busy and haven’t done a daily project which is why it’s been so quiet.

I’d like to announce I will be tabling at Small Press Expo this fall and I’m currently working on a new comics for it. I update my instagram with art (and my dumb face being dumb) all the time, and my main art tumblr (@meisterjdraws) updates more than over here.

I’m intending on doing Inktober this fall so I’ll post those pieces here and not there first.

Here, enjoy my new character History, they’re the star of my new SPX comic. I’m also planning on printing 2 sketchbooks, one of Hamilton art and another featuring all my other art.

Daily Digest 6  - Sweet Potato Bread

I’m not a baker, but I made this. I had to follow a recipe to make the breads, but it came out well. I can make these kinds of breads, they’re straight forward and start-finish is a bit less than 2 hours.

--

I still had leftover sweet potatoes from Thanksgiving. I mashed them down and made this. I’ve since sampled the bread and it’s tasty. What’s here is not my measurements, I had about 2 cups of sweet potato so I added a bit more butter and flour to balance everything out. I did use close to this amount of sugar because 1 1/2 cups of sugar felt insane and the bread tastes sweet enough. I didn’t want more sugar. I prefer to use butter than oil for the flavor that butter will impart on everything. I did it all by hand, a mixer would have been convenient for blending the melted butter with the potatoes. It also would have been convenient when I had to fold the flour into the wet ingredients.  But I did and I won.

Take a look!

Daily Digest 5 - Avocado Side Salad I did not make this Saturday, but I wanted to share this recipe instead.

I threw this together over summer for the first time mostly going off of what we had in the house. I’d go with about 1/2 avocado per person and I like making it portion by portion to maintain that ratio. My numbers are not hard and fast, just do what works.

Daily Digest 4 - Tortellini and Leftovers

Welp, I didn’t think to look up how to spell ‘tortellini’ before. I did look up prosciutto!

The text and original pencils were done on the Metro on Friday on my way into DC, then the inks...today. There’s nothing special I want to add about this meal.

I guess I could describe the sauce:

Daily Digest 3 - Leftover Pork Taco(?)

I used up the last of the meat making this, so that’s a plus!

To be honest, most of my lunches are weird amalgams of what we have in the house. I just throw together a bit of everything and try to make sure it’s not just meat and carbs. They’re so tasty, but I have a not-secret-in-the-least love of vegetables and fruits so I try to use them in interesting ways.

We had massive brussel sprouts for thanksgiving and I didn’t cook them all, I used 2 for 3 tacos. Peel, halve and slice.

I had a choice between a vidalia and a red onion, I went vidalia but whatever tickles your pickle.

Swap out the protein with chicken/tofu/seitan whatever you have. This isn’t special, just me trying to eat cheap based on whats in the house.

and a picture, because I was kind of proud of this one.

you can’t see the pork, but trust me it’s there.

--

Daily Digest 2 : Barbecue-pork quesadilla

I make quesadillas and grilled cheese often. This past summer I rolled some chopped up cooked chicken in a little bit of barbecue sauce and did a havarti and barbecue grilled chicken sandwich and it was delightful.

I wanted to put havarti on this but the pack we had was starting to bloom with dusty mold so I disposed of it.

Avocado is an optional delicious side, or maybe an avocado, corn and bean salad. I’m trying to stick to foods I’m making this month but if I start repeating meals I’ll start drawing other things I’ve made.

Daily Digest 1

I need to practice drawing food so I’m going to draw at least one food item or meal of my own design, each day. I don’t measure when I cook so if you try any of these recipes work with what feels like a reasonable quantity of everything. How many people are you feeding/how long should your left overs last?

Lunch - Roasted brussel sprouts, potatoes and sausage (recipe above serves 1)

Dinner - Chili

---

Today I wanted to use up more of our Thanksgiving leftovers and other old food in the house. I generally keep hot dogs and both raw and pre-cooked dinner sausages in the freezer so I defrosted one sausage and cut it into medallions. The brussels and red skin potatoes were just sliced in half before being roasted. I think my seasoning was basil, garlic, salt and pepper. I ate this with a side of mashed sweet potatoes to get more of the potatoes out of the house.

--

Before work this morning I made this chili! I picked the meat from the bones of the turkey to toss in and I used maybe...2 cups of mashed sweet potatoes. The potatoes kind of dissolved into everything else so there were no bites of them but they were in every bite. Watch the temperature of the chili, the sweet aspects have a desire to stick to the bottom of the pot and burn. If you have picky eaters who purport to disliking vegetables try mashing them into something like chili. The sweet potatoes I used had been boiled, candied (no marshmallow) and baked, so were twice cooked. You should be fine with roasting or baking them until soft enough to mash if you want it to incorporate into the chili evenly. Also try other root vegetables or greens cooked and maybe blended before adding. I also had to add some water to make sure there was enough moisture for everything to settle in.

--

Jargon June 12 - Loquacious (adj) Very talkative; garrulous

-

I spent a chunk of the day trying to figure out this one and not have the characters being sarcastic but positive. I decided it had to be ladies dating and I landed on the pair from this daily sketch. I wasn’t trying to but I also realised I have no female characters in romantic relationships with women and I’d already considered that with these two when I first posted them.

And here we are. I was going to have the one on the right use the phrase ‘cunning linguist’ but also have it kind of censored but I’m using the censoring joke elsewhere and I’d rather use it in the other comic I have first than here.

I need more characters to be friends with Ben, Lia and Darren so I think these two are. I like the idea of the black woman being a part of the MFA sculpture program with a focus in ecological engineering with Ben and that’s how they’re all friends. Are these women bi or lesbian, not sure yet. I also want one to be trans, so I have to work at changing her features so it’s less she’s passing as being born cis and more has or will have full surgery. I mean, if she’s in a college grad school program she might not be able to afford both surgeries at this time of her life. For now I’ll consider them queer without being too specific as to how. it’s evolving, and even as I start actually writing their story I’m sure it’ll change a lot then.

we’ll see how I try to develop them.

Jargon June 11 - Blithe (adj) Carefree and lighthearted

-

I was rushing on this one, I had a headache last night and really wanted to go to bed, I may redraw it better eventually. My notebook just barely has enough pages...

Jargon June 10 - Calamitous (adj) - Causing or involving calamity; disastrous

-

Kaiju seem to always come from the ocean, so here’s one from a volcano. It took a while for me to be satisfied with how the lava looked. There should be more black on it, but....

The mech fighting the kaiju is no one in particular, and there is an additional tiny person also flying into the fight.

Jargon June 9 - Crass (adj) - So crude and unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility

-

I love the word ‘crass’ and I can use it to apply to so many of my characters. My original idea was Sephy insulting Davey but I’ve already done that. I haven’t done ant BMP stuff in a while so  Magic Man blowing up at Kevin is pretty much perfect. I’m guessing that Kevin either vomited on something or broke something. Maybe both, he’s kinda of filthy and MM puts up with him. Lawrence mostly likes Kevin, he’s okay when he’s sober but it kind of a mean drunk. I’ll be honest, at this point in time it’s a major character point for Kevin so I don’t know if I’ll ever have him successfully stop drinking. He’s almost always the asshole of the moment so I don’t think I’ve ever portrayed his excessive drinking in a positive light. I’ve also never said that BMP was child friendly...

It has been a while since I’ve written anything in ‘runic’. It’s not a real language with it’s own grammar structure, I kind of want to give it it’s own thing but I’ not a linguist. It’s a direct letter-for-letter translation, which is still fun. To write it I wrote the letters in english then penciled in runic and final in ink. 

if you want to translate it yourself look here - or look under the ‘keep reading’ at the end of this.

Keep your drawing hand strong, I love these assholes.

Jargon June 8 - Unadulterated (adj) Not mingles or dilutes with extraneous matter

--

I haven’t drawn my demons in a while, so here they are in their human forms enjoying one of my favorite amusement park attractions! It was bumper cars or gokarts, but when I remembered that ramming people with your car is the best part, I knew what I had to choose.

While working on this I remembered a time I went to Rye Playland with my family. The first thing my brother and I did was hop on the bumper cars. The thing about the Playland bumper cars is that they’re really fucking fast. He somehow hit me so hard my glasses flew off my face and into my lap.

It was fucking magical.