So glad you can enter, and it’s Great Work you do for them critters in need! 
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Some more progress, this might end up being my final version since there’s only a few days left.
I was a bit intimidated by rendering the stylus, but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out- not too shiny or dull, even if it’s kinda uneven. It took a few passes with different brushes and some color adjustment. And the outer edges are made straight with alpha inheritance over straight lines (actually, I don’t know why I didn’t use a transparency mask). I might’ve accidentally made it too small, though, it’s hard to see when zoomed out now.
This is a bit of a tangent, but when playing with the brush I used for those rainbow pixels (modified from Rakurri v2’s ‘rdi) Fractured’), I noticed it uses a repeating time-based opacity curve to make that split brushstroke effect. And I thought, what if I made a brush with non-repeating distance-based opacity, with that same all or nothing curve? Then it’s possible to make a brush that runs out of ink/paint! Krita’s brush engines have so many options, it’s easy to come across unexpected possibilities.
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Hi @YRH,
This looks fantastic. If I can make a suggestion regarding the background? If you crop it like so, we can focus even more on that delicious cake!
Sometimes I make my canvas bigger than what I will use in my final work, so that the piece doesn’t look ‘placed’ in the image.
P.S. Please post the recipe too!!
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@YRH Which brush did you use for the cake texture? 
Was it a splatter brush?
Edit: regarding this entry:
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 
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 
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 
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
- 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 
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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Nice picture @humanum, can you please delete this post and edit your first entry above to add this picture to your first entry as it is rule after a recent decision?
Thank you. And Happy Christmas!
Michelist
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thanks. @Michelist, of course, will do… i thought by replying to my own earlier post, this would be the right way to do this. not to worry, will delete now
and happy. holidays to you too
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@Michelist seems i cannot edit my previous post, no edit icon visible… shame… sl can’t add my second kmages then 
can edit this one… just to show you , here’s the old post, no editing icon.
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one more, cannot add it to the post as i cannot edit - but shared it here : humanum: "And I love the diagonal lines too much :-) so I f…" - Mastodon.ART
(not too worried about competition, it’s my ode to Krita which is the most important aspect which is why it belongs here)
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Okay, if your member state does not allow it by now, we ask our helpful “ghosts” @AhabGreybeard; @raghukamath; @sooz to edit your post for you. And because I pinged them now, we only have to wait for their action, you don’t need to ask them too.
Michelist
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@Michelist, thank you. didnt realised that - thanks for your kind help
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Woooooo … it’s added.
@sooz - Please feel free to delete this and all the discussion leading up to this point.
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@humanum @Michelist @AhabGreybeard
Thanks so much for placing both submissions in one post. They’re both stunning!!!
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thank you, @sooz ツ
Progress: 10%
Suddenly the idea of glass mosaic art came to me, and I started sketching it all over again.
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Two more hours, go go 
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Didn’t even manage to sign it!
Edit: Wait… wrong thread! Nooooooooooooooooooo!.. 
Damn it! - Who bumped the WIP thread to the top?!! Iruhas!!! 
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We can add your image into the challenge, @Mythmaker
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