How to Draw a Cake
How to Draw a Cake puts drawing a cylinder on steroids. You will be able to draw a cake, a wedding cake & a cupcake after two easy lessons!
Servings: 1
Cost: $1
Equipment
- none needed
Ingredients
Instructions
- Let’s take what we learned about drawing a cylinder and a foreshortened circle and have some fun with it. If you missed that lesson, you may want to take a few minutes and catch up by going to the lesson at this link- How to Draw a Cylinder.
- It will be very helpful to watch the video in this post, How to Draw a Cake.
- Draw a short and wide cylinder on your drawing paper. Remember, the more the cake (cylinder) is tipped away from you, the flatter the first smile line will be at the bottom of the foreshortened circle that is the top of the cake.
- To draw a plate that sits under the cake draw a matching smile line a small distance under the cake, but make it a bit wider than the cake. Then imagine drawing the top part of a foreshortened circle to complete the cake but part of it is behind the cake. If it helps you to see this, draw the top part of a foreshortened circle very lightly to complete the plate. Then draw over the part that does not go behind the cake and erase the part that does go behind the plate. To make the plate have thickness, draw another smile line uner the first but very, very close to is. Connect the two lines at the sides of the foreshortened circle. A very short wide cylinder!
- Now let’s imagine that our cake and plate are sitting on a cake stand. So the stem of the cake stand is going to be a…you guessed it, a cylinder.
- Draw the two sides of the stem going down from near the center of the plate. We are imagining tht the plate covers up the top of the cake stand. Or you could say that what we first drew as a plate is now the top of the cake stand. Draw a matching smile line at the bottom of the stem.
- We will finish the cake stand with a base at the bottom of the stem. It will be smaller than the top of the cake stand.Draw a matching smile line below the bottom of the stem- but wider.Draw the top of a foreshortened circle over the to of this- it disappears behind the stem and reappears on the other side. You can lightly draw the entire thing and just erase the part that goes behind the stem if that is easier for you.To give the base some thickness, draw another smile line under the first, the same size and very close to it. Connect the two at the sides. Yep, another very flat cylinder.
- For fun, add some frosting dripping over the side of the cake. Draw a squiggly line below the top of the cake (the foreshortened circle).
- So draw your candles with two close and parallel lines with the bottom smile line on the foreshortened circle you drew and the top line a small foreshortened circle. Repeat this around the top until you have the number of candles you want. It really helps to watch the video or refer to the picture on this step.Candles are tall, narrow cylinders!You are finished unless you want to add more decorations on the cake.