From Sketch to Cake
Just a follow on from a theme I ran on Monday. Do you sketch all your designs before you start, or just sometime and how much do they change? I’m pretty bad by not sketching all the designs as I get a kinda idea in my head and then just run with it. Here is a bacon burger I did and as you can see it changed… But I do find sketching an initial draft does help… Do you? I’d love to see your ideas… And if you use digital sketching, please tag in what you are using as this would be so useful to us all, me included as looking to give it a go
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Wow fantastic!
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Your sketches are as amazing as the actual cakes!!!:)
Jackie, Singapore
awesome! yes it pays to sketch first,… I do ….It helps me with placing all elements of the decorations
tree Wanganui, New Zealand
Wow, the cake is fantastic and your sketch is too! So real! I’m a bit the same I sometimes sketch, but I always guarantee it changes in the end! :)
Cake A Chance On Belinda
Great! Love it!
Anka
Awesome!!!!
Sketch by hand mostly, but have used photoshop also, when doing variations of the same design.
Julez, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Allways-Cakes/450634018350115?ref=hl
Excellent creation from sketch to cake.xx
What a nice theme Calli! Julez, that dragon is fantastic!!
I love sketching and have tried fiddling with Photoshop/iPad but in the end, I find the quickest and most comfortable way with the client is just regular old pen and paper.
Here’s an awesome wedding project I got to do a couple of weeks ago, for a couple sporting some lovely inks. We came up with this special way of displaying “Till death do us part” during their wedding cake tasting. I knew I wanted to mix 2D painting with 3D elements, such as the roses.
This is the rough sketch I drew at the consultation (details in German):
This is the first draft with more details, so I knew what I’d be doing. For the skull, I got inspired by Flickr member Fingerboardpass.
And finally, the finished cake:
I had a lot of fun making this one!
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