How To Draw A Birthday Cupcake

Artist: toree / March 11, 2009
How To Draw A Birthday Cupcake

Step 1.


Step one: Here you have the base, or paper cup, of the cupcake. Make sure to curve into the top a little bit, making it look like icing was spread over it. This will make it easier for you later, but if you prefer to wait to do that you can. Now onto   

Step 2.


Step two: Now let's add the actual "cake" part of the picture! In the next step you will be adding icing, but for now just make it look like a "real" cake, and make it a little pointy at the top. This is where your candle will go later. Then add some   

Step 3.


Step three: Now you're ready to add the guidlines for the icing. Just make the edges a little plumper, looking like icing piped around the top of a cupcake. No really (: Now let's remember to keep the lines a little bit curved on the inside, like the   

Step 4.


Step four: This is getting close to the end!!! Now it's time to add the candle. And that's about it. It should protrude, or look like it's protruding, from the top of the cupcake so that it's straight up, not like real candles which fall over when th   

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Step five: It's time to finish! Just color it in, add a flame (i made it a bit opaque, and it didn't make it any more realistic, as you can tell) and make sure to go over the original cake lines as well. Now add some sprinkles and look! Now you're do   

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Artist: toree
Date Added: March 11, 2009
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Description: Hello! Welcome to my tutorial on How To Draw A Birthday Cupcake. I thought this tutorial fitting since this is my birthday (: this is extremely easy, but you have to be good with a computer drawing system if you're not sketching it. So here it is, and let me know what you think! Have fun drawing and comment, please!

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