Monthly Art Challenge WIPs and Discussion Thread – December 2023

Hi, @MangooSalade, thanks! That’s not a bad suggestion, however I didn’t want to cut the plate either, so it is what it is :slight_smile: But if we want to focus more on the logo, then yes, I agree.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a tested recipe! I never tried to bake it myself :smiley: It’s typically a cake that you just buy at a bakery or a confectionery, but it probably isn’t that difficult to make actually (looking at a few random recipes I saw online). I usually bake cheesecakes or tarts, which I love too :drooling_face:


Hi @CrazyCatBird, I mostly used the brushes from David’s pack (deevad 23.01). I first filled a flat brown color for the cake base, then used

image - y) Dry Scratch Texture - deevad 23.01

to create the texture using brush’s normal blending mode first with a few different colors, and then multiply mode to quickly get nice darker colors. Once I had a small section of the texture, I shamelessly copy-pasted it to other areas :grin: and then used brush a bit again to make it more varied. And I believe I used the same brush for the whipped cream filling, just much more subtle…

I also experimented a bit with a skew transform to make the texture on the sides look more in line with the perspective.

Generally, I think figuring out the colors is the challenging part. When you look at the reference, the mix of colors in a real photo is often really counter-intuitive.

As for the difficulty, I had the most trouble with the whipped cream topping (the grooves) and the metal fork (no good reference for how the light would reflect at this angle).

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