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Step 1: lineart

Since the reference photo i used was of a cheesecake i baked and photographed myself. For my line-art i felt comfortable tracing the picture at low opacity and added the details to the plate and cake afterwards.

Step 2: colour palette

I found a colour palette maker online and i just inserted the picture i wanted the colour palette of and chose the spots on the picture i wanted the colours for.

Step 3: base colour

I chose these colours separate from the colour palette and just started off filling in general areas and not focusing on the fine details yet.

Step 4: starting to develop the cream

I chose a general background colour so i could have some idea of what the painting would look like against a brighter colour.

 

I began to add my shadows and highlights to a general area like in the reference, not really focusing on being neat right now.

Step 5: mid tones

I started to add my mid tones to every other part of the cream not highlighted or shadowed

Step 6: blending

At this point i started to add back that initial base colour around the shadows and highlights to blend it out more and to soften some of the lines, i only used a variety of flat brushes for this piece.

Step 7: final render of the cream

For this step i just colour picked the shadows i wanted to adjust, lightened it and then went around the edges of each shadow with the lightened version until the mid tones were evenly blended with the shadows and highlights.

Step 8: the crust

I then began to add some darker colours to the base crust and blend them out slightly with a flat brush.

Step 9: the filling

I decided to work on the filling then come back to the crush so what i did was apply a general purple base colour to all the spots that were purple in the picture, and then i added a slightly darker colour to all the darker purple spots in the image.

Step 10: developing the filling

I added another final darker colour to the darkest spots in the painting before i start rendering the filling i like to know the tones of each area first, which spots are darker which spots are lighter.

Step 11: starting to add detail

I started focusing on specific areas of the picture to add details to and this is when I relied on the colour palette maker to know what colours go where.

 

At this point im still just placing colours before i begin rendering fully.

Step 12: softening the borders

Here i started to add the lightest colours from the palette to the painting and began blending the light and slightly darker colours together.

 

I also began to develop the tip of the cheesecake by using the same method i used to colour the cream

 

I kept adding more detail to one spot at a time, so it currently looks like only a few spots are detailed.

Step 13: the plate

I used the same colour palette maker to chose colours from the palette in order to start this part of the painting.

 

I just placed each colour where i thought they would go and didn’t focus on making it neat at this point just trying to get colour on the screen so i have an idea of what i want it to look like.

If it’s messy then i don’t feel like i’ve lost progress when i want to start again.

 

As well as the plate i started on the filling again and felt the lighter tones weren’t light enough so i went in with a more lavender colour just like in the areas in the picture.

 

 

Step 14: full colour of the plate

Once i was comfortable with this version of the plate and the colour placement, i decided to fully flesh it out and fill in all the white spaces.

Step 15: rendering

This is the point in which i began to add the final details to the filling. After looking at it the next day with fresh eyes I noticed i needed to add more detail to the tip of the cheese cake and make it darker too.

 

For the middle of the cheesecake i added more shades of lavender and light purple in order to lighten it more and because of how detailed the original picture is.

 

I added more shades to mimic and give the impression of lots of details, because i wasn’t willing to spend house rendering the painting to be suuper hyper realistic.

 

(also decided to change the background colour)

Step 16: final details

For the final details i took another day to look at is with fresh eyes and then pointed out all the things I thought looked off.

 

1. i lightened the bottom of the cream to accentuate the showed to give it some dimension

2. i blended out the colours of the plate to soften the lines

3. i coloured in the crumbs on the plate

4. finished rendering the crust of the pie by adding more shades of brown

5. darkened the top of the cheesecake by pushing the shadow out further

And finally, the bottom of the cheesecake i added more darker shades of purple so it doesnt just look like 2 blobs of colour.

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