You don't need mix! Mix a beaten egg into 125g plain flour, then gradually beat in 300ml milk, maybe a pinch of salt, until it's a smooth batter. Then you just need a bit of oil for the pan and you're sorted.

Thanks! I have so much fun drawing African headscarves, they wrap and roll all over the place!

Thanks, Sophie! They're both scanned textures, just bits of things lying around and scanned in. (I think they shawl was a bit of kitchen roll.)

You kind of have to experiment with lots of stuff to see what works, but some methods in Photoshop include changing the Hue/Saturation. Or you can convert the colour of a texture into Monotone or Duotone (Image >Mode >Duotone) and then dragging it over to the piece you're working on. Or in the Layers tool window, you can change a layer from 'Normal' to 'Multiply' and add colour on a layer underneath. Or you can use the paintbucket tool and pour a colour on the layer above your image, then decrease the top layer's opacity, although you lose some texture when you do it this way. If you find any other ways, let me know!

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Hey, thanks, Josh! Yeah, pancakes here are so different, more like French crépes. Stuart likes those thin kinds better (with lemon and icing sugar) but I want to find an easy-but-tasty recipe for the fluffy American breakfast version.

Hooray for American breakfasts! Stuart got almost freaked out when he arrived in Seattle and we took him for his first breakfast to the bakery in Black Diamond. He ordered pancakes and expected crépes, not the fluffy blueberry kind that entirely covered his enormous plate.

I really love them except when the scrambled eggs and the maple syrup touch, that's kind of an icky combination. My sister took me to a great pancake place somewhere on Aurora once, I wonder if it's still there. It was full of bikers and the waitress gave us crayons to draw on our placemats without us even having to ask for them, which was very exciting.