How to paint Christmas Gingerbread Cake

1. Intro: Hello guys. My name is Alexandra and I, watercolour artists. I am Benton seems my childhood and luckily today I'm working as an illustrator for some brands. You can find my illustration in Paris bus tour guide. We shall illustrate to us year. I adore Brandon source because for me, the alec little piece of art. So today I propose a debating this nice and cute gingerbread cake because it's Christmas time. And in this case, you can practice in different kind of texture. So let's prepare the materials and we can start. 2. Class project: So today I proposed it to bring this nice and cute gingerbread cake because it's Christmas time. And in this case, you can practice in different kind of texture. So let's prepare the materials and we can start. 3. Dough and house: So I start with preparation of the color mix for my DOE. I am using yellow ochre and other light brown like sienna and a bit of Amber. So you can use different realm if you have. And with my big brush, I am covering all those cheap, trying to do it at once. I avoid to make a lot of little movements. So you movements should be light and don't rub the paper to heart. And then I add dark brown to my collar mix. And adding color to the bottom and to the left side where we have shadows. And then your brush, wipe unnecessary paper De Shu and blend different tier. Keep your movements light and delicate. Don't wrap paper. Now we're doing the same with the second dual-layer. I'm just a bit darker color, don't possess the shadow under the eye sync drops. Now I see that my left side is not dark enough. So I add dark brown mix with glean in almost dry brush. I blended in order to not have a novice frontier between the colors. Do it like in makeup process. And it's a bit difficult because we have a several parts. But just be careful. Prepare in advance your color mix. It shouldn't be too dark. I just took up my paper. If it's all right to damage my illustration with my hand. Under My drops to the left side. And on the top. Now we'll get the same color or we can do the front side of our gingerbread house. I just follow the hull shape and I don't touch the windows and the decor. You can also add mosque in fluid if you have or if you have a sharp end of your brush, do it like that. We will finish later. It would be the white guage. Aid, dark color to the boredom. And a little bit everywhere actually, because I laugh when my shapes are not monotonous. For the left side of my house, I will use darker brown mix. So for the left side of my house, I will use dark brown mix. The same process. 4. Lollipops: So I will stop and leave little flare off light. Color mix transparent enough. Now I will do the second one. Actually. Now I will add darker red to the bottom. So I will create the volume. I'm saying dark red, but it's actually the same read, just a bit dense. The same process for the third one. So for this sugar stick, I will use the same red or blue. So what I do, I'm doing the brush dashes, and I'm doing very spontaneously. And at least some whitespace. Trying to grade the form of my sugar stick. First layer shouldn't be light. The second the same process. Just a bit of a darker color. And then I'm Ed in some dark dots just somewhere. 5. Marshmallow, cookie, roof: Marshmallow, I will use a red and a bit of blue for some kind of purple. So I will simply color in the first and the second shapes. And of course, I'm Ed in dark color to the bottom of the shapes. Actually, I'm doing it and I will be satisfied with my shadows. So for the three cookie, I will prefer dark brown mix. I'm coloring the tree, n, dash the bowls. And of course I am adding a dark shades to the bottom. And under the bolster. And I blend different tiers. Now when we come back to our marshmallows, I will use light being rich, and we'll do the same process. Now. I will finish my sugar stick. I will add some extra dots with dark shade of pink or red. Degrade this grant should texture. And as my paper is trying, it becomes light. So I should add it again. But just a little bit. Here. I will use only see in a colour just to stand out from the other brown colors a little bit. If you only have one brown color, it just add a bit of red to it. I have the decorations, but as a transparent enough, I will cover it later. Of course, it in dark color and everywhere where it seems to be darker. 6. Meringues and beads: So for the Miranda over US mix of red and blue and transparent. So I just feel my shapes and then I add darker color to the boredom and the left side. I also add lines. Now you can repeat this process for the pink noise. Pink Loligo. I am coloring, eat at once. And only when a whitespace. For the beats, I will use red and blue and some violet. And of course, I go to the bottom. Okay. Now, we'll use dark brown windows. Right? 7. Pink icing: So for the IS sync, I decided to make it pink. But if you want to make it caramel, all chocolate, you'll do it as you want. Is that the same process? I prepare everything in advance using my red and pink. Pink, I am using other reason crimson. Be sure that your mix is liquid enough. So I'm start coloring my, i zinc, actually IMR left-handed. So I am doing it in this direction. You can do it, of course, how it's comfortable for you. So on each beat on the top. And then I will add dark shade to the left side. Deemphasize the volume. And don't forget to blend different tiers. Use it almost dry. Brush. Mm-hm. Now I will just finish it. The dopamine cake. To show the perspective should be darker, color the shape with the same color. But be sure that your first layer is right. Extra shadows under the Declaration's. If your shadow is too hard, blended with Glyn and almost dry brush. 8. Final details: We're almost done. Now we will finish the roof. I will use it the dance red or pink color. To paint discrete. I will use my little sharp brush. Actually the same color. I will add a bit of extra details. Like some lines, some boats, maybe shadows again. The dark brown mix with dry brush. I will do this movements. So even helped my brush to be more messy. Because sometimes it gives a really interesting result issue. It's okay to have really been. You can try. If you haven't anything, you can add just dot, dot, dots for example, or just leave it like that. It's okay too. Okay. Texture. I will use the same brown, just be sure that it is liquid and transparent. I am adding some particles, some irregular dots to show this sparse texture. And I will finish it with some vanilla seeds as well. I think. I hope. 9. Ending: So, thank you so much guys for join this class. I really hope you learned something new today and had a fun. None visited, applaud your artwork and ask me questions if you need it. 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