Let's Illustrate Fancy Cakes in Procreate

1. Welcome to Class: Hello, Skillshare. Let's illustrate fancy cakes together. In this class, I will take you along my full process of illustrating very fancy cakes in Procreate. Fancy cakes are great for your portfolio and are great for so many occasions, such as birthday and wedding, but also any other occasion as well, Mother's Day, graduations, international chocolate cake Day, obviously. In this class, I will be covering everything you need to know to illustrate a fancy cake. From where to get inspiration, what sorts of themes you could test out to my full process of bringing illustration to life in Procreate. I'll share how I gather inspiration, sketch, add flat color, and then finally all the last little details. Hello, everyone. I'm Kristina Hultkrantz an illustrator and surface designer from Maria Fred Sweden. Welcome to my CheeryPink studio. I've been working as a full time illustrator since 2010, and I've also been represented by Pink Light Studio an art licensing agency since 2019. So I've had the pleasure of working with many large companies, which is really cool. Like Hobby Lobby or American Greetings or Orange Circle Studios, just to name a few. So, Illustrating in Procreate makes art making so much fun and it's easy too. I really love focusing on creating fun things from my portfolio because it can get boring to do the same old florals over and over again, even though I love florals, too. I really hope that you're going to enjoy this class, whether you're thinking about adding fancy cakes to your professional portfolio, or you just want to make one for fun. Let's get started. 2. Supplies and Class Project: To follow along in the class exactly as I am doing, I will be using the iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil in the program Procreate, but I'm sure that you can follow along in a similar program. You will also be needing digital brushes. You can use the ones within Procreate or any of your favorites. The class project will of course be to illustrate a fancy cake of your own. 3. Intro to Fancy Cakes: Before we get started on sketching out our fancy cakes, I really love sharing some inspiration with you, all the different themes and variations so that you can really make these fancy cakes your own. I want to share some stuff from my own portfolio so that you can get an idea of what I have played with with this theme. So I did this sketchy birthday. I mean, like, birthday, I think is the first thing we think about with cake, so it's not very, like, out there, but that's classic, and it always sells and everybody has birthday, and they come every year. So it is a good thing to have in your portfolio. This one I tested out doing something a little bit more sketchy. I just drawn it really quickly, even though this took surprisingly much longer than you would think. Yeah. I in this class am sharing with you just a straight placement illustration, but you could of course, turn it into a mini collection or a full on collection with patterns and complimentary patterns and stuff like that. That's an option for you. Where's my cursor? There we go. Then here's another collection that I created. Here we can. Why, I actually called it fancy cakes. And here I did a little bit of a mix between birthday and Valentine's Day and any occasion cakes, really, I guess, but mainly happy birthday. And then I love you and I did hearts, so those kind of more in the Valentine's Day category. I really enjoyed creating some of these. I recolored some of these. Like, this one to be more birthday friendly, like this a little bit more commercial birthday for anybody when you use colors like the primary colors. I really like this one. I think it just looks so crisp and lovely with the lettering and all the pinks and the softness and the frosting and the details and, like, the plate, you could draw the plates like super detailed. You can do the backgrounds like a beautiful tablecloth. You can really, like, make this scene so much more and unique in your own thing. You could have a hand coming in to, like, take a scoop with a spoon or a fork. Another example I changed the colors. Not so excited about this cake. I almost feel like it doesn't look like a cake anymore. But I mean, there's a balance there. All right. That's some examples from my portfolio, but we need to look at Pinterest because Pintrest gives us all the ideas. Now, I just wrote in elaborate cakes and we can of course take inspiration from actual cakes, from beautiful amazing talented bakers. Because this is their artwork and their property, don't just take a photo from the Internet and completely copy it. Take different elements that you like from one thing and then mix and match and add your own thing and do different colors. And just like I usually say in all my other classes, it's so important that you bring your own thing to things. But you can take inspiration. There's in just these images, I love the idea of having a very like the texture of the cake is quite simple, but then have a whole pile of fruit on the top, or the same thing with this one. It's all just one monotone color, and then the cherries on top, stunning but then what's also good with pinchers is when you get one image, like, you love this. But then there's tons of other images with blue cakes with cherries. You can get examples of how you can do variations. I love this one with the cherries on the bottom down here, so it's not so perfect. This one with lots of cookies and sprinkles and things like that. Just don't do any cookies that are super recognizable or candies that are super recognizable. There are certain things that are super trademarked. So that's important to take note of. Look at this cake that looks like a like the forest floor with moss and things. How incredible is that? I mean, like, sometimes it goes towards, how can you make it still look like a cake in your drawing? And that is usually with candles, is a good way to make it still look like a cake? Or other sentiments. Like, if it is for a birthday collection, then it's like happy birthday or if it's for a wedding. Talking about that. Like, congratulations or, um, yeah, good luck. You got to come up with the occasion that you can do. But any of the occasions like Mother's Day, Father's Day, um, graduation. Those were some of the things that I put in, like, St. Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day, and Easter, you could do cakes for Easter with lots of eggs and little bunny rabbits. How cute would that be? I mean, there's so many different variations on frostings and things. Like, this is super romantic. You're with strawberries, and, like, it looks so this could be beautiful for wedding. It could be beautiful for Valentine's Day. Um, look at this with, like, illustrated, like, thinking we can actually illustrate a cake, and you don't even have to use frosting. Like, you can just illustrate it. And the different forms, like the cake as itself like this or tiered or a piece of cake is also interesting. This is beautiful with the moon and the sun. Like, think about different shapes. Like, I showed in my portfolio, I did a hart, but, I mean, there's plenty of other shapes. Like here, a moon would be beautiful. A flower. Um, a possum cake. I don't know about that, but okay. That's weird. These hedgehogs, very sweet. Now we're getting into, like, really weird territory, which is excellent. Um, yeah, I hope that you get the picture. Fancy cakes. But mainly, I just want you to go full on in with all the, like, the ornate, frilly things. How can you draw that in Procreate? How can you get the different textures? How can you just make this so elaborate and yummy and it's just going to be so much fun. And I think that you can develop this to so many different things in your portfolio. Because this is just ridiculous. Now, it's very popular with possum cakes. This is very strange, but I'm happy to see it. Okay. I also wanted to just quickly look at other artists work. I looked up cake art, and this is what showed up. Again, I just want to show you how many different styles of art there are and people come up with different ways of showing a cake from really painterly to more stylized things like this. This is really simple, but it still reads as a cake. Even more simple, lots of details in the background. I mean, the sky's the limit is so much fun. Hm. My gosh. This class, I think is going to make us all want to have cake. So yeah, that's my little introduction and some inspiration for you. Just go into Pintris, look at fancy cakes, elaborate cakes, over the top cakes. Check out one of those baking shows where they do crazy cakes. I'm sure that you can come up with something. Do you want the safe themes like birthday or wedding or something like that, or just draw a cake for the fun of it and it can be used for somebody else can figure out what it's going to be used for. 4. Project: Sketch: Now we're going to get straight into the class project, which is illustrating a fancy cake. Then following sections, I'm going to be sharing with you my full process of bringing a fancy cake to life. Here we are in Procreate. We're going to start by creating a new canvas. I like using a 11 inch by 14 inch canvas in 300 DPI in RGB. Those are the specs that I like. It is a big enough size. If you prefer to use standard European sizes, definitely go for an A three. I think they usually are a little bit too long, but I mean, they can always be cropped. But yeah, just choose a big size when you're a big enough size, not too crazy, but bigger than a letter because you never know what this might end up on. And since Procreate is a raster program, it's nice to have as good quality as you can. That's what I'm going to be doing and again, we can go into the Canvas information here. So the dimensions are 11 " by 14 ", 300 DPI. These are the pixels, if that's important to you. Layers for my machine that I have that's starting to get a little bit old. I don't know. Really, when I got it, actually, 71 layers I can have the color profile. I prefer RGB in Procreate. I just find it works better. The CMYK, when I bring things into Procreate, there's bugs, so I never use that. So that's that so there's my canvas, and I prefer for a cake. I think portrait is great. So now I'm just going to start sketching. So I'm just gonna use a regular pencil and I can use, like, a darkish color so you can hopefully see what I'm doing. But yeah, so as much as I like the idea of creating a possum cake, I think I'm going to go for something a little bit more generic and boring, and I think I'm just going to go for regular tiered round cake. So, yeah, just drawing my cylinders here. It would be interesting to do something a little bit more different, so I don't know. Maybe can I get my plate, at least, is, like, off the sides here. And this I can try to make quite a lot more elaborate and have lots of details on the plate, as well. And here's gonna be, like, shadow. I really did enjoy drawing all of those cherries, and I don't feel like doing lettering in this class, actually. So I think I'm gonna do some cherries on this one, too. So cherry on top of the cake. So let's see, we need this one that way. Maybe like this. Is three a good number? And then maybe one down here as well, like the two stuck together. Because I quite like that, how that makes the composition a little bit more interesting. And then it's just about decorating. So just thinking about those, like, I love those, like, blobs. Unfortunately, I'm not a baker, so I don't know the technical terms for all of these. I'm sure there's technical terms, right, for all of these, like, frostiny things. Like pipe. I know that's piping, but the different I don't know, the different nozzles on the piping bags. I like when they have, texture on them. This is something I can try to draw in. So I really like that texture. There we go. And then, of course, like, sprinkles is fun and different colors, and that kind of brings life, and that is not if everything's so symmetric here, then I think sprinkles is something that's really fun to get it a little bit more wonky. I can do round sprinkles and the shape as well. Just for fun. Can even be some sprinkles on the plate, 'cause, you know, like, that's inevitable. They always fall off, get everywhere. Okay. And what else? I'm not sure about my my cherries up there. It's kind of annoying. It looks like there's two with antenna. So I kind of feel like I need more cherries so that there's more going on, and more, like, overlap. Yeah, I think that would be better. Two, three, four, five instead. Then it's a little bit more going on. Alright. But then, like, we need even more. Like, definitely need some of this kind of swirly. I can even be kind of doodly like doodles. And then we need some kind of frosting here at the bottom, too. Maybe two layers. I've seen that, like, a big layer of blue gloopy, frosting, and then, like, the smaller around it. Then there could always be sprinkles, there's pearl sprinkles. You could put pearls on here. That could be something we could put on and that would be fun to draw. I think, sometimes just what do I actually want it here? Again, I put the small edging here. Maybe some stripes would be interesting. I don't know. Now, when we're just drawing, it looks not as crazy, but when you start putting in color, my little sticks here. Okay. So there's my sketch, and we'll see how it develops as we continue to work on our final artwork. 5. Project: Flat Color: Now it's time to start bringing this illustration to life. I'm going to make this layer a little bit less opacity. I just want to make sure that we can still see it. We need to figure out what kind of colors we want for this cake. Now, I of course loved all those blue variations, but I thought that that was done and I don't want it to be too much like what I saw. I had to figure out something for myself. I'm just going to think about different colors that I've been using. When I'm thinking about cherries, definitely we could use some of those red, super red cherries could be really interesting. And then we need some pink too, like, as the because I love pink and red together, more like a little highlight on the cherry, so I'm taking something that's a little bit more peachy, so I have that. But then I was thinking maybe it would be really stunning on that dark burgundy kind of reddish color. So I have this one in here that would be interesting. It's quite red, red burgundy. That would be really interesting to make it very luscious. And I want to kind of try a little more purple. Purple's really difficult on screens, so that's annoying. We could try something like that one, but even darker, like, really dark almost towards black. So I try something like that. I think I'll keep it in this realm with these, like, burgundy colors and make sure that it doesn't go too dark. So some of those just to get some contrast in there would be nice for that, like, ice blue purply kind of periwinkle color because I think that looks stunning in there. And maybe the stems of those cherries can be like this lime green just to also break it up a little bit different. So how about we play with that? And then the background color, I'm not sure yet, but let's just get started with this. So I'm just going to block in the colors of my cake. I like doing that. I'm going to use the dry ink brush from within Procreate. I have manipulated it somehow and to my liking, but I still like the original as well. I have the original here, too, I think. I'll use that one then just 'cause Alright, so then make sure that you have a new layer. I'm going to put that underneath the sketch, and I'm going to, yeah, use the dry ink brush that's within Procreate, and I'm going to just block in the colors. So I'm thinking maybe the super rich burgundy can be, it's pretty thin. Can be the cake and to make these layers easier to create. Or to make your illustration easier to create lovely to work in layers. That's the main reason why working digitally is so amazing. Also, the back button and undo button is also excellent. You could, of course, fill this in just by pulling in. But I kind of like how the brush has some speckles and things. So I do like just filling in by myself. Here we go. So that's nice and dark and luscious. And then I'll do the even I'm not sure. No. I will do the next layer underneath. And then also in the same burgundy color. And I will pull that in. I'm bringing up the threshold there. Okay. Just go around the edge 'cause sometimes that gets messed up. Alright. To give some variation here, we could do like shadow. So I'm going to do a clipping mask on the top one and maybe use this really dark one and no, maybe the lighter version. So the tops of the cakes are lighter than the edges. So you get some of that three D look going. I'll do the same thing. I'm going to grade a new layer clipping mask. And draw that so we have now it's starting to look three D. And now we're gonna start decorating. So again, I need a new layer. And here, I'm gonna use that really dark burgundy and see how that looks. And then I'm also gonna look for another brush. Let's see. I have 5 million, so it's difficult to remember which ones are which M D I have one called textures? Yeah. Is any here that I like that are can you search? Imported custom sketching, drawing. Copperhead looks kind of frostingy. What does this look like? It looks kind of frosting. Okay, so let's go with that for right now. I was also nice that it was a little, not as opaque, so that will be good. So let's see. Hmm. I will do the frosting on the top of the cake. Two. And then these little bottom ones, I want more like just a smaller Just making sure I'm not making it too perfect. Let's see. I want to go underneath. So I'm on the other layer, so I'm making sure I'm underneath that top part, so I can do those sections. And these ones I can maybe make a little bit bigger because it's on the bigger section. And then here I was talking about doing a little bit bigger and then smaller details underneath that. So I'll do, like, messy. There we go. So we have some so we have some frosting going on here. Now we're going to add in some more details, of course. I'm going to go to the top and add on the top. Let's see if we add in some more lighter versions. Let's see if we can find another brush that we like. The sticks look like. That's good. It looks more painterly. That's fine. Okay, so I'm going to do some of these lines. Look like smeared paint. Smeared frosting. Making sure it goes off the edge because I think that looks a little fun. I want to shall we test out some stripes, see what that looks like? So I'm going to choose that medium burgundy that we had on the cake, so then I can go in and make another clipping mask there and see what that looks like. We do some subtle stripes. I think that looks kind of fun. It's quite subtle. I'm using my pen quite lightly. I'm holding it quite lightly so that it doesn't come off too much. I mean, this is supposed to be incredibly ornate and elaborate and crazy, so it's not like you can add too much. Then I'm thinking because I'm using very monochrone colors that's also going to be okay. Alright. Now, to get an overall feel of what the piece looks like, I kind of feel like we need to start thinking about the background because now it looks very contrasty, but if we have it on, like, a softer background, then that's gonna look nice. But before we do that, I want to get some other colors in so I know what's going on here, so I'm going to go on top of that layer, go to put in these cherries. And that one I want to use my um where are you? Drawing charcoal, painting, sketching. Where's My dry ink one. I just saw you. Here you are. Okay, so I want my red. Are kind of two in line with each other, so I want to bring this one down a little bit. It can be a little bit smaller, too. That one's overlapping, so I want to do that one separately. But I just so I'll do that one a little bit separate. I'll make that one pink just so it sticks out more. There we go. And then the stem, so another layer, and I'm going to take the green color and do a little simple stem. I might want to make them thicker. We also have the red cherries down here, so I'm going to go down here as well and add those in. Try to make them a little bit round. And the stem layer There we go. A bit more interesting. And the plate in the background. So that one needs to be underneath everything. What color should that be? I also need to figure out the background. I have this blue color, and I think that would look beautiful, but I think it also could take over. So I kind of want should we test the background with the pink? But then I can do, like I did in my other one a little bit more ombre look. So if I do that and then in this section, I'll leave a layer for the plate, and then or 16 can be the plate. And here, underneath, I want to do, like, a really light pink, and we need some kind of watery brush. So what can we do for that? Or charcoal? No. Let's see. L. What does gouache look like? Like a work. I'm going to make it quite big. I'm just going to lightly paint over the sky and make sure that there's no super harsh sections there and then make another layer up top, so it's even lighter up there. So it's like an Embree look. You could do even lighter for another little section at the top. Yeah. But this brush was quite light and airy, so that looks nice. I'm going to go back to my inking dry ink there, and I'm going to work on that plate. So I have that empty layer. If I bring in that blue, what happens? Does it take over? Or does it look nice with something going on? I think that looks nice. That has, like, a contrasted color. So it's not all monotone. W a chromatic Okay. So that's fun. And we can go in and work on the plate a little bit and then kind of work our way up. So here I'm just going to create a clipping mask, and I'm going to just choose a slightly darker blue to add some of those details that I wanted to create so I can make an edge around the plate. I want to I like this scallop detail. And then some dots. I'll fill those in. You can turn off the sketch so you can see if it's looking good. Okay. So I think that's enough details. I could go and add some stripes, too. Should I do that? Just so it kind of mimic the cake. That kind of looks fun. I'll do that. All right. So that's starting to come to life. Let's add some of those sprinkles and things. So we talked about I think I'm going to use this blue to bring that up into the cake, as well. So we talked about those, like, pearls. Now, I can't see much of my sketch anymore, really, so I'm just going to turn it off and you can just turn it on to get reminded of what you were thinking about. So I'm going to do on top of those quickly scallops, I'm going to put in some bigger pearls. Let's do on all of them. Okay. And then we have these ones, and I think I'll make those a little bit smaller. Okay. Alright, so I'm just going to close out my colors here and look at this a little bit more. I quite like how my mb is a little bit messy there. It's a little bit maybe it's a little bit too cloudy, but I think it brings some interest there. So I'm gonna leave it. So now I have added all the different blocks of color. Now we just need to make this a little bit more come to life. So I want to add in my sprinkles first. I do actually have a sprinkles brush, which would be the easy way out. And that one's by, let's see. That's by Lisa Glanz, and that one is in her Mm Let's see. It's in her texture, one of her texture one Texture brushes, sprinkles. It's 100 hundreds and thousands. And then you choose the color you want it to be based off of. Let's show. So here is really small. And it usually goes different colors. I'll make it even bigger. Let's see. That's fun. Even in the air a little bit. Just sprinkles everywhere. So that's really fun. I can highly suggest that brush in that pack. Again, I can link it below. It's the but from Lisa Glanz. She's a teacher here on Skillshare as well. So that's fun. But I want to bring in some of those. Um bigger sprinkles, too, just so that we can draw something, as well. Mm, where are we again? I honestly need to inking, dry ink. I'll do some maybe red sprinkles. Would that be good. I want to take another. So a couple of red sprinkles. Trying to make those quite random in placement and making sure to put them a little bit here and there. I want some pink sprinkles, obviously. So I'm going to bring that in as my next color, making sure that they're in different areas. And overlapping things cause that seems like they're not unless it's, like, one of those cake masters who use, like, tweezers to put on every single sprinkle on a cake, I think that they're usually quite random. Okay. Starting to look fun. What other color bring that blue. Also. So we try to keep this pretty small color palette. I think small color palettes, limited color palettes look really sophisticated and well thought out. Even if you're just kind of figuring it out as you go. Like, like I am. Sometimes it's hard to pin down exactly what it is that you are doing or until you see it finished. Okay, that looks fun. Kind of want like a rogue sprinkle over there. Mm hmm. It's kind of empty over here, but I'm going to manipulate the frosting. So okay, so there's all the flat color that I've added to the illustration. It's already coming to life so wonderfully. So yeah, now it's all about really bringing it to life in the next section. 6. Project: Final Details: All right. Now it's time to really bring this illustration to life with lots of shadows and details. So first, I was thinking, Well, I like to just start from the bottom and just go up so that I don't miss anything. So I'm going to start with this plate, and on top of the details, I'm going to create another clipping mask. And now I'm going to do something called an adjustment layer. So I'm going to take this N, and I'm going to pull that normal to soft light. This is my favorite adjustment layer because I can create different shadows, but if I change the colors, it will change the color of the shadow to match, so I don't have to change that. I can give you an example. So I choose a charcoal color, and I'm going to go for that Where are you? Here, painting with a gouache brush, and I'm going to paint in the shadows. And I loved how this brush was quite subtle, so you can kind of, I can get more a little bit around the cherries. And then if you go to black, you get a darker, more intense shadow. If you want highlights, you can go to white, so you can highlight things if you want. So that's why it's so nice with this. I can show you what it looks like if we wanted to change the color of the plate, we just change the color, but then the shadows match. That's why I really like this. Just going to undo that. Now we've done the plate, now we're going to go onto the cake. I'll do the same thing. Go to the top of those all the layers, add a new clipping mask. I'm going to make sure I'm on that charcoal because I think it's nice, happy medium, like gouache, and I'm going to start painting. Whoops, I have to change it to adjustment layer, soft light. Otherwise, it turns black. So here I'm just going to give some nice shadows to the top. So it looks more rounded to the sides again to make that more three D look and just add some shadow and depth in there. That's that first cake section. Then we go to the next cake section, which is on top of these ones, clipping mask, remember to do soft light and do the same thing. So here I'm going to give some shadow under the cherries and I'm going to underneath those swirls and a little on this side just to make it a little bit more three D. Those really quickly, but it just says so much more impact. And next, if we want to bring life to all of these uh, let's do the pearls. So those ones, we're going to do a clipping mask. And again, with this to give it some shadow. Gonna zoom in on those, and the brush is too big, so I'm gonna bring it down a little. Give those some shadows underneath from one side. Okay. And then I think because it's a pearl, we need to give some highlight. So I'm going to do a clipping mask, and I'm going to choose a light blue color, and I want to do the dry ink and just draw those highlights in. So I'm going to draw in some highlights of different sizes. You can do two or one little blobs of color to make those look shiny. Bigger, smaller, making it look a little random. It doesn't have to be perfectly planned out, like, scientifically accurate. There we go. So there's some shiny pearls on there, so that's really fun. What do we have next? We have all the frosting, and right now it's really flat because it's quite almost black. So on top of these sections, and I quite like that brush, so I had to figure out that. So I'm going to choose that color. And then that brush, was that a painting? The drawing? Yeah, sticks. Okay, so I want to add some details onto these. But now it's a little bit too much. So maybe I'll just reduce the opacity on those. 56. That's good. Okay. So then they get more defined and they feel like just adding some texture there. These really painterly brushes, I think, really show the look of frosting well, I think. I like when it goes off so you can see the texture there. That's really fun. And here, just do some simple squiggles here also defining on the bottom. This is so fun. Okay. And you can go back in and add more or less. That's why digital art is so much fun that you can go back and, like, you can turn off a layer, try something else. You go to give some details up here. I love the back button, also. I mean, undo is the best thing ever. There we go. So that's all gotten some attention. The sprinkles, I mean, we could go in if we wanted to and add highlights, but I think that would be overkill. Quite they're so small. I think they're fine being quite flat. I am wondering if I should put sprinkles on top of the cherries, because now it just seems unlikely that the sprinkles wouldn't be on them. So I'm going to take that brush that I did and put those on top of the top of everything, so there can be fun sprinkles everywhere so that they're more, like in bedded. I also was playing around with adding some frosting to the cherries there. So I did before. I forgot to put press play or record, I mean, but here, I put in using the dry ink, just putting in some frosting to make the cherries look like they're actually sitting there. But now we have to make the cherries look like they're not just round balls. We need to make them look a little bit more three D and yeah. Not like they're super realistic here, but kind of. So again, a clipping mask on top of the first cherries, and I want to add some of this pink, and I want to do the gouache brush, make it a little bit bigger. And I'm going to add that pink in areas because I think it looks cute. And so we don't have to do another shadow. Plus, also the shadow, the soft light doesn't work very well on red for whatever reason. So I'm going to choose a red and a darker version and do the shadows now with that. Okay. And then we're going to do the pink one by itself, as well. Clipping mask. I'll do that shadow in there. And then the red see it looks a little bit more fun. I forgot the ones down here, so we have to do that, as well, so take that pink and go back down to those and highlight those as well. Remember my darker red color. And then I want to give them some fun highlights. So I'll do a light pink, and I will use that dry ink. And again, I'm not trying to do something super realistic. If that's something you like to do, I'm like, go for it. But here, I like to just just so look a little bit more shiny. That's fun. And they do look a little bit too stark white, so I could, again, bring the opacity down a little bit so that they melt in a little bit. Yeah, I think that looks better. It looks fun. The stems, I think I'll just keep them quite flat because they're so thin, not very important, but I think I want to use this darker red color. I'm still on the dry ink, and I need to kind of make that stem look like it's going into something, like the top of the fruit just so perfectly flat. So there's a little like where the stem goes into the fruit. Alright. So I think I think we're done. I think they look so much fun. Ah, now I'm kind of thinking that the stems, no, wait a second while I'm thinking. Let's add some shadow to the stems, as well. So clipping mask, some dark there. We'll go to soft light, and I'll make the tops a little bit darker and at the bottoms. Yes, so something's going on with them as well. Just to match everything else. Okay, that looks better. Okay. Do we need more sprinkles? I think it's fine. Okay. Look at that. All right. So that's our fancy cakes. I hope that you enjoyed creating a cake with me. I hope that you maybe learned a few techniques or discovered a new brush, like the sprinkle brush. I really enjoy that one. And remember that there's so many different occasions and color palettes and shapes and decorations that you could test putting on these on. Check out one of your old collections. So can you add a fancy cake to it? Just draw fancy cakes for fun. I mean, I love this. This is so much fun. Thanks so much for taking this class with me. Let's I can zoom in so you can get some little detail shots here, my beautiful sprinkles and my my cherries and the shadows, and it looks painterly but not too crazy, and it's Hm. It's just really fun. 7. Next Steps: Alright. That's it. I really hope that you enjoy taking this class with me. I love setting you up with a few next steps so that you know how you can go forward. So I'd love to say that fancy cakes, as I mentioned in this class, can be used for so much more than a birthday card or a wedding card. They can be for any occasion, and they're just so much fun to draw, either just to draw for your best friend if you're just printing it out by yourself or to put in your professional portfolio and maybe it will end up on a hallmark card. That would be amazing. So yeah, just keep thinking about fancy cakes and add them to your portfolio when you're doing a different occasion. Maybe you're doing a St. Patrick's Day theme or you're doing a um now I can't think of anything, but, you know, just keep have, like, fancy cake in the background when you're doing a Valentine's Day card. Like, it doesn't always have to be little candies. It can be a full cut cake. Excuse you. Yeah, have fun with your portfolio. I mean, even though it's a professional business and it's commercial and you have to think about things that have to sell, a lot of things that sell are like, when you share your joy or you share something that really, like you worked on this and you had so much fun. I think that people can see that in the final image. You chose fun colors and fun details, and you really worked on that frosting texture, you know? 8. Where Else Can You Learn with Me: Okay, that's brilliant. Thanks so much for taking this class with me. And if you enjoyed learning about Illustration in Procreate, I have many other classes here on Skillshare. Please check out my profile page. I've done 40 plus classes, and you can find many about pattern design, Illustration and Procreate. So I'm sure there's something for you there to discover. If you'd like to share your final illustration with me, that would be so great. Please upload it to the class project area. I can't wait to see all of your fancy cakes and see what kind of occasions you decided to draw them for. If you want to hang out with me outside of Skillshare, you can find me on Instagram at Kristina Hultkrantz. My website is also Kristina hultkrantz.com. I have a beautiful patron membership community that you could check out. I have something called Collection Club, where we work on surface design themes together every single month with a feedback session, and you have accountability to get that momentum going with building your portfolio with really curated, beautiful collections. So I would love to see you there if that sounds interesting. But until my next class, make sure that you're following me here on Skillshare so that you'll be notified of my next class. And I'll see you there. Bye, everyone.