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Eggtober 12 Avocado Toast (Featuring Tomato and, of course, Fried Egg.) Clip Studio Paint, Gouache Brush, Dry Gouache Brush, Airbrush (for the barely visible bread texture) and Freckle Pen (for the pepper.) 20 colors, 1 hour 30 minutes. Took a little longer on this one because I spent an inordinate amount of time lovingly rendering the tomato that I knew no one was going to get to see in the final product. (Don’t worry, I saved it to another layer since @quezify said last time that he appreciated the peek behind the curtain.) This was another request by a friend. I must say, I wake up every day excited to choose an egg from the many options I have available and just... have fun putting it down on (digital) paper. I’ve got some yammering about that, but since I’m already going to post a “behind the scenes” under the cut, I’ll shove the musings down there too. As always, big thanks to the Egg Master Supreme, @quezify​ for organizing this. It’s wonderful to see so many people getting into art again or branching out and drawing eggs for the first time, all because one zany dude said to Tumblr “You know what? Let’s paint eggs for a month.” And enough of us said “Hell yeah” that I get to see so many different styles and mediums. Loving every moment of it!

(Art first, because LOOK AT THOSE TOMATOES! I love how they came out, I want to shove them in my mouth! AAAH!) Now for the rambling musings. I’m starting to get really comfortable with the gouache brush, a tool which I previously never used, and I’m also getting more comfortable with art in general. My usual process from childhood, when I did much more art, was to slap down pencil work on real life sheets of paper, line it in pen or photograph/scan it and upload it to my computer to line with the pen tool, and then just do everything with pen for bright, solid colors. Most of my other techniques were one off flukes, like the fire I did in my icon’s background. And my newer process, as an adult who just started learning Clip Studio Paint, was fairly similar. (I just started with CSP recently because it came free with my newest tablet and my old standard, Photoshop Elements [I dunno the version, 7 maybe?], was too old and would resize on my new rig so all the buttons were SO GODDAMN SMALL it was a pain to use.) The only difference is that, as an adult who’s home more often than not, I skipped the paper. Sketch, linework with the pen tool, then color under the line art with pen. Or, for a certain other project, I color under the line art with the watercolor brush. I’ve always wanted to try gouache because I’ve seen it worked with IRL and it’s got such pretty results! Opaque like acrylics and oils but flows like watercolor. I suppose it never occurred to me to look for it in the toolset. The last time I even used brushes meant to represent real media before CSP was when Corel Painter was a thing and I had it with my very first drawing tablet. And even then I didn’t use it often. I mostly used the watercolors because that was my favored medium IRL. But I quickly started to prefer Photoshop Elements which also came with my first tablet. And slowly I stopped using anything resembling traditional mediums. But I figured, hey, Eggtober is already a time for me to learn some new tricks and get some practice in, watercolor will look too translucent and it has a paper texture to it that I’m not sure I want. Let’s see if this thing has Gouache. And it did. And now it’s my favorite brush. The way it blends naturally, the ease of pressure controls so the opacity is easy to alter stroke by stroke. It feels like laying down real paints. Once I got used to how it behaved it just... clicked. So yeah, now that I know how to work with it and now that I had the brain explosion necessary to figure out my new process of laying down the darkest colors first and working my way up, it was all too easy to go “Oh. I like laying down these colors. And instead of trying to predict where I’m going to put the avocado, I’m just going to draw the full tomatoes for fun and practice and then figure out the avocado slice placement.” And then I spent roughly 45 minutes just... adding detail to tomatoes. Because it was a genuine joy and I was smiling the whole time and I could just look at those juicy tomatoes forever. So yeah, I know I say it every time, but I for real owe quezify everything for giving me a reason to pick up a new tool and learn and just have fun with it. Kicking my depression’s ass, my ADHD’s ass, my artblock’s ass, and my (lack of) motivation’s ass, all with the power of “Egg fun, draw egg.”

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Vegan JUST Egg Copycat

Ingredients:

1/2 cup split Mung beans

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp kala namak (Indian sulphur salt) or 1.5 tsp of Montreal steak seasoning (and then omit the salt and pepper as there’s already salt and pepper in Montreal)

1/4 tsp each garlic powder, onion powder

1/8 tsp black pepper

1/4 tsp turmeric for color

1 tsp nutritional yeast

1 tblsp oil

2 tblsp cashews

Instructions:

Soak cashews and mung beans together in 3 cups of water for 8 hours or overnight

Pick out the cashews and blend them with 2/3rd cup of water

Drain mung beans and add to blender along with all the seasonings in ingredients (not the oil)

Blend for a minute, let it rest, then blend another minute.

If you want veggies (I highly recommend at least bell pepper and onion, cut up a couple tablespoons of each) and heat up a pan on medium heat, put in the oil and veggies. Let the veggies cook. If no veggies, then just proceed to next step with oil in pan.

Reduce heat to medium low, pour in 1/4th cup of the batter for a single serving and cover with a lid. Let cook for a minute or until you see it solidifying underneath a bit

Then flip and cook for another 30 sec-1 min. You don’t want it to over cook and be too hardened!

And it’s done! I like to break it up a bit and put it in a bean burrito with salsa and sometimes potatoes!

Mine did not come out as good as it could’ve come out because I cooked it on too high of heat! medium low heat is key it seems. I adjusted recipe appropriately for those who want to try. Inspiration from: https://www.veganricha.com/vegan-omelet-with-mung-bean-egg/#recipe

But definitely take my adjustments over the inspiration recipe. Medium is too high of heat and it needs more seasoning than it recommends. Trust

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