Slice of cake

[Josie]

How would I make this slice of cake or just any slice of cake in affinity designer using the iPad?

thanks

[Dan C]

Hi @Josie,

As has been confirmed in multiple previous threads, it would be much better to start this design yourself and then come back to this topic with your artwork and any specific questions you may have to help finish the piece - as the tools and techniques needed to draw a slice of cake will be very similar to your other posts where you have asked for assistance, such as:

I'd recommend using any of the techniques that have been taught to you by many of our kind forum users - then if you have any specific questions I'm sure we'd be able to help further

[Alfred]

3 minutes ago, Dan C said:

it would be much better to start this design yourself

I’m sure Josie can do it herself. It’s a piece of cake!

 

[Josie]

How is this?

sliceofcake.afdesign

[Alfred]

8 minutes ago, Josie said:

How is this?

It’s invisible at the time of writing, but I’m probably just too quick off the mark.

Edit: Now that I can see it, it’s fair to say that it’s quite nicely done. A little more texture would perhaps make it look more appetizing, but I don’t know whether you’re deliberately aiming for a flat style.

[Josie]

How would I add more texture to the design?

[carl123]

Just try to make it more appealing and experiment with things/colours you like

 

 

 

 

[Alfred]

I was thinking in terms of adding noise, but you might want to follow up on Carl’s suggestion and experiment a little (or a lot).

[William Overington]

18 hours ago, Josie said:

How is this?

sliceofcake.afdesign 22.26 kB · 1 download

It is nice.

May I suggest please that it would be improved if there were three colours rather than two colours, by making the icing on the top a deeper pink, like a flamingo, and then adding colourful stars like Carl suggests, but only on the top of the icing on the top of the cake, not on the side of the slice.

I don't know if it is reasonably possible, but could the smaller edge of the slice be slightly curved so that it looks more like as if the slice has been cut from a circular cake?

William

 

[Alfred]

27 minutes ago, William Overington said:

it would be improved if there were three colours rather than two colours, by making the icing on the top a deeper pink

I wonder whether your laptop display settings need adjusting, William. @Josie’s original screenshot already shows a deeper pink (#FBC2CB) for the icing on the top. The filling colour is #F1D0CB; i.e. less red and more green, making for a lighter (relatively yellow) result.

27 minutes ago, William Overington said:

I don't know if it is reasonably possible, but could the smaller edge of the slice be slightly curved

That is not only possible, but also easy to achieve with the Node Tool. If you wanted greater precision you could use the Pie Tool to create an elliptical arc, but that’s probably overkill for a project like this.

[William Overington]

3 minutes ago, Alfred said:

I wonder whether your laptop display settings need adjusting, William.

Um ... er ... possibly. 😀

William

 

[William Overington]

2 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Um ... er ... possibly. 😀

William

 

Though it could be me! 

William

 

[William Overington]

Looking at the picture on line I do not see a clear difference.

When I opened the .afdesign file in Affinity Designer I could not see a difference.

However, when I did a Control 1 and looked at it closely, I noticed a definite difference where the two colours are directly touching on the top of the cake.

But is that correct artistically, surely the colour at the side of the cut icing would be the same as the top of the icing, or maybe the angle of the lighting would make it look different, but it is the same colour as the filling.

So, well, yes, the colour of the icing is a different colour from the colour of the filling, yet I consider a bigger difference would be an improvement, but I am only a hobbyist at art.

William

 

[Josie]

This is what I did