She just smiled at me when she saw my bamboo mat and said "No one really uses these at home in Japan." The foil is easy enough, and no cleaning! Just throw it/recycle it. Also, my japanese neighbor, (originally from Tokyo) always used Heavy Duty Foil instead of a bamboo mat to roll her sushi. It seems the seasoned rice vinegar has enough sweetness on its own. I don’t watch much K dramas these days so I was completely oblivious to it until one of my Korean teacher told me to watch it since I’m doing a comic about Korean food.It's nice to see sushi recipes posted. It’s been translated as “The Jewel in the palace” in the other Asian countries and apparently it was a hugh hit a few years ago. I’m a total sucker for those dramas. I’ve recently heard about this K drama called “Dae-Jang-Kum” which is about a female chef in the Cho-Sun era palace.
There are many Korea dramas based on the Cho-Sun (Korean dynasty 1300s- 1800s) period and all the characters wear such a beautiful ornate Han-Bok. The only way for this dress to stay put was to tie it very tightly right underneath my armpit and I could hardly breath, let alone eating any of those wonderful Korean holiday food. I couldn’t wait to take it off because it was so itchy and uncomfortable. I remember wearing them when I was a little girl visiting the elderly relatives in Korean new years and Chu-Suk, the Korean thanksgiving. It’s hard to see anyone wearing Han-Bok in Korea anymore, except for the national holidays, weddings and funerals. I have no idea why they made the skirt to be tied so high, right on the breast line. It makes the woman look so graceful but unfortunately it is so uncomfortable to wear. Once the ladies got married, they turned the braid into a bun and wore an ornate pin though the bun. It is worn by young ladies yet to be married. This tie was the sign for the town’s bachelors to know which girls were available. What is the Korean girl chef wearing in my comic? It’s called Han-Bok, a traditional Korean dress. This particular top with striped sleeves is called ”Sek-Dong-Jeh-Go-Ri” which is worn by girls on happy special occasions. The silk tie at the end of her braid is called “Deng-Ki”. Check them out on Tumblr, check her out on Twitter, and most importantly follow and like them! Have you guys checked out Robin Ha 's terrific recipe comics? They are inspirational, educational, and totally beautiful. This is where the transparency lock comes in handy, as you don’t need to select anything.įinally I mess around with some adjustment layers to see if something interesting will happen to the colours I hadn’t planned on. You can basically just use those as rubber stamp to add colours and textures to your layers.
I have a pretty large collection of custom brushes made from various ink and paint washes and splashes. The next step is basically just messing around with colours. Then put every layer on a transparency lock (it’s in the layer window). I very quickly put these things together for this demo. For my last book I made a little data base of rocks, trees and branches to use wherever I needed something. These are actually all things I still happened to have on file. I scan that in and through some photoshop magic (selecting black and white channels and copying to layers) turn every piece into layers. Step one is to start on paper with ink or gouache. But lately quite often my process is something like this. A caveat here is that I rarely work the same way twice and every job is generally an experiment in figuring out new ways to work. So here instead are some pictures to do that job. I always mean to answer these questions, but it’s kind of complicated and it would be a bit time consuming. Every now and then people ask me about my process, how I colour things in or achieve certain textures.