Cake Sketching

Skill level: Newb

After the cake tasting, you most likely have a scribbled half-sketch with some quick notes and ideas written down.

Providing the client with a digital refined cake sketch is crucial to getting sign-off, especially on a new or creatively out-there design.

Learn how to knock out a cake sketch in Photoshop with a Monoprice graphics tablet.

33:01 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

• How to refine a cake sketch design in Photoshop
• Learn how to quickly pull in reference photos and make them look sketched
• How to sell the benefits of a high-quality sketch to a client

Tutorial Chapters

1. Getting started on the cake sketch 0:14
2. Working with Photoshop layers 3:34
3. Getting image assets 5:19
4. Coloring the cake tiers 9:16
5. Sketching buttercream 11:10
6. Adding the flowers 17:12
7. Adding gold leaf 20:11
8. Selling the benefits of a cake sketch 26:05
9. Getting final approval 30:34