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After finally coming up with a concept for an alphabet book, treats and beasts, I had to draw each and every creature and snack. I started each drawing with a very rough pencil sketch. I referenced the animals a great deal from photos online. I never traced anything, but I would have pages on a Google search open throughout most of the sketching process. I would fixate on a few particular images, but I tried to take bits and pieces from each.
Rather than have to erase all my rough pencil lines, I used animation paper and I would then trace out a cleaner version of my sketch onto another piece of paper. The animation paper would allow me to trace the other image easily since I had animation pegs to keep both drawings lined up. Next I would use a few inking tools, mostly sharpy pens and fine liners, and I would start inking my drawings.
I probably worked on the first two or three drawings at the same time when it came to inking. As I progressed I would add a new detail to one drawing and then go back to the others and add the same kind of detail. I love this stage of making art because it allows me to watch television and movies while working. Eventually I discovered the amount of detail I wanted to add without overworking the drawing.
This was probably the longest process of making this book. It was also the most Zen of them of them all. I could just sit and doodle away while watching television. I should also mention that at this point I had not actually decided that this was going to be an actual printed book. My thoughts were that I would just post these pictures online and share them with my friends.
The next phase is when that changed.
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We all have our favourite flavours of taffy, even opossums.
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Check out this week's fairly realistic candy treat.
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I don't think I'll ever forget this Kinder Egg commercial, it will haunt me till the day I die.
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I've always wanted to draw an alphabet book. I've thought about it for a while, but I've never been able to figure out a theme that would work for me. Monsters where always an early thought, but while I really enjoy the look of monsters, I don't really know much about monster history, or at least not enough to find a monster for each letter of the alphabet. That's the first big problem you get when you're coming up with an alphabet book, figuring out a character or idea for the most obscure letters of the alphabet.
Then one day I was sketching in my sketchbook and a thought crossed my mind, I drew a walrus eating wine gums. The idea suddenly crossed my mind, I love animals and I obviously love candy. While I do care for the wellbeing of animals, my main interest is learning about different kinds of animals, this is why the alphabet concept worked well for me in this case. Candy is also an obsession of mine, and once again it's about the variety of candy that I love.
So after sketching out the walrus eating wine gums, I started to sketch and write out animals and candy for each letter of the alphabet. Fairly quickly I had all the animals and treats sorted out. There were a few challenging letters to deal with, but not as many as I was expecting. The bigger problem I had was trying to find treats for each letter. I didn't want to use brand names in this book, so the challenge was to find non brand names for certain letters of the alphabet. Fortunately I've traveled a fair bit and had treats from many places around the world, so in some cases I used more obscure foreign treats to fill in some of the harder letters of the alphabet.
The next step was to design the book and start the rough drawings.
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I might even love narwals more than I love nougat.
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Check out this sweet sugar cookie treat review.
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While Canada has had some amazing commercials for candy, I feel like for me, this is the ultimate piece of Canadian nostalgia. No kid my age could ever forget this song.
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I'm always making new videos, but these are my favourite so far. I'm hoping that these might some day become our most popular, but I figure my opinion is fairly biased.
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Eater takes a look at how candy bars are being made, and it's fascinating.
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I feel like this could actually happen.
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I often wonder why I eat or drink things, but sometimes I also wonder why people even make certain treats. This Flamin' Hot Mountain Dew is a prime example.
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Some might not know what Karinto is, but I assure you kangaroos love them... I assume.
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While writing this review a thought came across my mind, why does the cup work so well with peanut butter and chocolate? More importantly, why don't more companies make treats in a cup shape? I feel like a Snickers or Oh Henry cup would be pretty tasty and unique. You might even try to make some gummy cups? It's just really weird how one company makes almost all of the cup shaped treats, and it's almost always just peanut butter and chocolate.
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While I love all of my designs for Treats and Beasts, I might just love this one a little more.
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Find out why the pretzel needs to a fresh designation.
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I feel like the kids who win these candy challenges are beyond anything I could handle.
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This cute little shirt celebrates how awesome inchworms and ice cream are.
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Check out the full review of this very strange salty snack.
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In this episode of Junk Fud on the Road, Allison talks about her solo trip to the Ukraine. She was only there for a few days, but she did get to try the world famous salo. (Note - This episode was recorded before the current situation in Ukraine)
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The perfect shirt if you love the letter h, or honeycomb... or hyenas.
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While posting this review I learned something really interesting about this candy. Apparently the name of this candy can be directly translated into the words "African violet". My Ukrainian isn't that great, but I'm going to assume that this is no accident. If you look at the package you can clearly see that there is some visual similarities. I'm not sure if I can give a candy a better review because of this, but I really think it's neat, and worth mentioning here at least.
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I'm not sure why they made a connection with these amazing looking cat toys and ice cream, but I don't always understand marketing.
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In this episode of Chris, Why Would You Eat That?!!, I eat a piece of Dubble Bubble that's more than 20 years old. I don't really know why I have such an old piece of gum, but I should mention that I have more, if you're interested in having a piece for yourself.
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Tell the world how much you love geese and gum!
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This movie is an interesting look at the candy industry in Japan, maybe not today, but I'm sure it's still pretty competitive.
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Check out my full super thick Oreo review right now.
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I like them particularly when they're eating Easter Eggs.
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Check out this interesting Xylitol based gum that I reviewed.
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This Sugar Crisp commercial not only brags about their candy coating, but even suggest eating it as a candy.
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In this episode of Junk Fud and You I look back out our most popular videos on YouTube. This is a list of the 5 most watched videos, some are kind of surprising.
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I figure if you happen to love the letter D, or dark chocolate, you'll love this shirt.
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Check out my latest video game themed candy treat.
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Most people don't think about what would happen to red licorice in extreme temperatures, well I'm not most people.
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I've never really looked into the history of Twizzlers, but I have a lot of questions about the shape. Was Twizzlers the first candy to be this shape? What does a floppy, twisted candy have to do with licorice? While we're on the subject, what's the deal with red licorice, it's not really licorice, but it kind of is now. There are a lot of questions that I feel like someone at Twizzlers could answer, but I'm kind of convinced they never will.
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He's probably the one shooting the footage, that's why he's not in any of the shots.
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For this very special candy experiment I decided to taste test 4 different mini eggs. One was very different, one was better than the rest, one was surprising.
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Here's another fun t-shirt that you can buy if your name starts with "b". It also works if you like bubble gum or bees.
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Check out my first of many Easter reviews for this week.
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If you love armadillos or the letter "a" then this Treats and Beasts will suit you well.
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I've always felt that the gummy is one of if not the best candy for creating fun designs. I feel like gummies can be just about any size, shape or colour. If you really think about it, I feel like you can make just about anything out of gummy. The reason I don't think you see more varieties of shapes and colours is that it's expensive to make your first batch of gummies. You really need industrial equipment to make gummies, small candy shops often stick with things like chocolate because they're easier to make in small quantities. Maybe some day the technology will start to allow small companies to make their own gummies, and maybe then we'll see some amazing gummy art.
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I feel like this is a really strange example of what it would be like if Fred and Barney lived with you.
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This episode of Junk Fud on the Road was recorded right after our first exploration across the boarder to America since the Covid shutdown. It was great to have some American classics and to see all the fun things we'd missed before.
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Check out why these chips are so weird by reading my latest review.
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I really wonder how this got beyond the ideas round.
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This commercial is both strange and very heart warming... then it gets strange again.
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In this episode of Chris, Why Would You Eat That?!! I eat a blue corn chip, only it's not made of blue corn. This chip is likely made of regular corn but for some reason the makers thought it would be a good idea to cover it with very unnatural looking blue dust.
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This week's new review proves one thing to me, colour does matter. When I was a kid, I used to visit the Toronto Science Center on a fairly regular basis. One of the exhibits they had looked at sense and perception. In one case they would sell you a little plastic egg filled with gummy candies. The candies would come in two colours, one would be appropriately coloured to the flavour it was representing, the other would not. The one that was off coloured would always taste weird, and you'd have a hard time telling what flavour it was supposed to be. The gummy candy that match its flavour to the colour was easily identifiable. These Takis are proof that this theory works in the real world, and that corn chips should not be blue.
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Check out my full review to find out why this candy idea fell flat.
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Until recently I forgot about this tag line for the Coffee Crisp bar. I realise that the commercial is only so funny, but the tag line lasted a really long time.
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In this episode of Junk Fud and You I look at each issue of Snack Facts and point out a few secrets with a peek behind the curtain. I look at each issue and what makes them special to me.
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For some reason, I believe that if gumdrops where alive, they would be very clever.
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Find out why this grape soda themed caramel corn grabbed my interest with my latest review.
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What they need is to make a soft serve ice cream machine that feeds yummy soft serve right into my mouth.
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