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\"Cupcake<\/a>

Cupcake illustration with orange sugar, vanilla and chocolate frosting, and a cherry on top cc-by lemasney<\/p><\/div>\n

Cupcake Illustration<\/h3>\n

So today’s post was just about using a few different tools in Inkscape<\/a> to create some interesting effects. First and foremost, I saw the stitch sub paths live path effect as a great way to create ridges of a cake cup and so it was. I made a shadow with a blurred ellipse. I used the calligraphy tool to create the cake and the icing. I used the dot tool feature of the pencil for the confetti sprinkles. I created the cherry with the ellipse tool and the node editor, and the stem with the Bezier tool. I added some highlights for the frosting with the calligraphy tool, then blurred them a bit.<\/p>\n

A lot of fun to make!<\/p>\n

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