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Home › Cake Decorating Basics

Published: Jan 31, 2018 by Elizabeth Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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

Cake Decorating Basics: Wedding Cakes

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2. Designing Cakes

3. Cake Tasting

4. Digital Cake Sketch Tutorial

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Cake Tiers Pack 01

Cake Tiers Pack 02

Cake Tiers Pack 03

Flower Pack 01

Flower Pack 02

Flower Pack 03

Flower Pack Megapack (1.5 Gigabytes of images)

Succulents Pack 01

Succulents Pack 02

Lemon Slice

Pomegranate 01

Pomegranate 02

Silver Dollar

Strawberry Slice

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Hi, I'm Liz! I'm an artist and cake decorator from Portland, Oregon. Cakes are my obession, which is why I'm dedicated to crafting tried-and-true recipes, small cake tutorials, as well as advanced online cake courses!

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