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The most perfect food, pizza. This is a pretty much a line-for-line copy of a reference image, but it was a good exercise in terms of wrangling layers and colors.

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Mmm, cupcake. From a reference drawing. It turned out OK.

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Done using the basic round brush and studio pen.

I decided to add the face kind of at the last minute. It’s happy candy corn.

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This one was weird. I had reference photos ready but just used the brush pen in Procreate to draw the rough shape of a donut, then started adding colors and using the smudge tool to lightly blend everything together. I then added sprinkles.

I realized the color of the donut was off–it almost looked uncooked. Grossbuckets. I then used alpha lock to try painting over with a more golden brown, but finding the exact shade proved difficult. I then tried playing around with all the different layer options and discovered that choosing Difference resulted in the tan-colored donut becoming a dark, more chocolate-like donut, so I fiddled a bit more and while it’s not great, it was interesting to experiment and find a way to get closer to what I wanted without starting over.

First, the dark donut:

And the yet-to-be-baked donut:

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I had shading and stuff on this originally, but I got so fed up with how it looked that I removed all of it. Then I looked at the new version and hated it more, so I brought the shading back, but simplified it, and added a thin black outline, which I had originally skipped. Art!

I did spend a lot of time playing around with alpha lock, which will help in the future.

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I made a bunch of cookies and hated them all. Then I made this one and stamped it three times and declared myself done.

I don’t like it, but I don’t hate it.

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I spent a lot of time on the ice cream scoop, using different brushes, blending and generally trying to get some decent shading/painterly look to the thing. I gave up and went with the ultra-simple cone you see below.

This turned out a lot different than what I was originally going for (a kind of watercolor effect) but it’s still okay.

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A day late as I was out testing my sore foot and taking pictures of demonic squirrels (demonic squirrel pics will be posted soon).

I used reference that had a lot more berries in it than what you see below, but I like the way this looks like some kind of weird fruitmobile.

I experimented with the water brush in Procreate. Looking at it now, the shading on the strawberry is a bit too subtle, but look at dem seeds.

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I saw a funny reference pic and chose to use it for today’s drawing. I’m not sure it was the right choice, but it’s…something.

Afterward I did a more traditional tomato:

I had an idea in mind, found a reference photo, and came reasonably close to getting what I wanted. Therefore, watermelon is better than peas.

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