Just wondering if you all draw sketches of your cakes while you are still in the planning stage? Do you color them, etc? Are there ways to "cheat" at this if you aren't very talented at drawing? Thanks in advance.
I usually sketch all of my cake ideas before I set to work. This way I can play with various ideas and I can show them clients for approval. It's much easier for them to grasp the design. I go all out on sketches if it's a new idea I am toying with.
I will usually color them in but sometimes if all I have is a pen I make do with that. I save all of my sketches in my sketch portfolio.
Here is a simple sketch done in pen. Guess which one of my cakes it is (look in my album). And I do apologize for the quality of the picture. I forgot my digital cam and had to use a cheapy.
Aso for ways of cheating... Hmmm practice.
By the way, haven't seen Doug for awhile, anybody know where he is?
drowning in all the end of term grading of papers!!!!
(someone 
procrastinates on his grading 
and spends much too much time here instead)
I free hand sketch in pencil (as you all are well aware of), only rarely in color (usually just see that in the mind's eye).
sometimes I use MS Publisher or Paint to assemble design from clip art and such. (gotta learn Paint Shop Pro)
Oh My, Antonia, That was so unexpected that I am at a loss for words. Thank You so much.
Great job Antonia74! I have to try designing this type of cake. I make a rough sketch of every cake, not just cakes for clients. It helps me to make sure the design is doable, that the design is in scale, that the lettering will fit on the cake etc. 
sometimes i do but like someone else said my cakes never end up as i imagined i not bttter or worse just very differnt.....but it helps get the juices flowing and thats the main thing
If I don't sketch out my ideas, then I find myself staring at the cake trying to think of something to do. I usually have a lot of decorations on the cake which need advance planning, so research and sketches are a MUST for me. I use colored pencils, I make notes of where the ideas came from (websites, pages in books, etc...) .
On the sketch, I also note all the essentials about the client, phone #'s, flavors, prices....and I keep everything...it's like my cake scrapbook. I also put a photo of the finished product next to the sketch to compare afterwards.
This is the cake I am currently working on....it is a modified Candyland cake......Since it is for a girl's 1st birthday, we opted to ditch the bright colors and go for a monochromatic pink and white look instead....I'll let you know how it turns out!
YOUR SO FUNNY MMDD!!! Did you get here through my link? I just did a search for helen to find the round cake sketch. I searched "sketches" and it highlighted that word in the thread!! LOL LOL
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