It's time for pancakes!

Hooray - it's Pancake Day!
Here are the ingredients you need to make pancakes:

Place the flour into a bowl with a pinch of salt. Make a well in the centre. Then:

Melt the butter gently on the stove or in the microwave and add a spoonful to the mixture.

Heat a saucepan and add some butter or oil to grease.  Pour in some mixture and quickly spread it around the pan surface to make a round pancake shape. Once it has begun cooking it should become loose in the pan and reading for flipping:

Garnish with classic lemon and sugar or anything you like:

Cucumber & Chilli Pepper tango

I was recently commissioned to draw a cucumber dancing with a chilli pepper. Helpfully I have drawn dancing vegetables before! The client requested various details and features that referenced the people these characters represent. Hopefully they will appreciate the sentiment though it is hard for me to know as I am not part of the private joke going on here! 

Here is the final result:

Some early sketches of various poses:

Here is an older drawing I did on a similar theme. 

The Dance of the Condiments:

The love story of Betty and Barry Bourbon

I created these biscuit characters whilst developing a series of greetings card ideas. I liked the confetti 'Just Married' bourbon biscuits and decided to discover how they met. So here is the love story of Betty and Barry Bourbon:

See more comic sketches on my website here

Baking calamities & triumphs

Sometimes sitting with my sketchbook it can feel as though my brain is somewhat distracted:

So with that in mind I began drawing biscuits and other baking items sprang into view:

Inspired by the popular TV show The Great British Bake Off,  I came across these unfortunate casualties of bad baking:

Let's hope for plenty of successful baking in the new series (though perhaps that is not as entertaining as the calamities).