Hi everyone! These are the highlights from our livestream on drawing cute food. In this
episode, the theme was drawing cute food or alternatively, different kinds of foods with
cute faces. The goal was to come up with a menu of cute food items. Our viewers suggested what I
should draw and what colours I should use, so Dr. Holiday Fries is the collaborative creation of
our viewers in the live chat that day. So here are some main tips to take away from this livestream.
Tip #1: Think in simple shapes! Most of my items here can be broken down into 3D shapes.
Think of a cylinder, a cone, a cube, or rectangular prism. Think like a character designer.
Designing interesting silhouettes from simple shapes is what makes a character more memorable.
Tip #2: How to make something look cute! Draw the features simple and close together.
Squishing the eyes and mouth closer together vertically will help create that cute look, and
cute or "chibi" generally means making something look younger. This is also done by putting the
eyes lower on the face and making them larger. And don't forget the blush! And Tip #3:
Have fun with bright colours! You can make something look cuter and more cheery just by
picking the right colours. Think of more bright or saturated colours versus dull and more muted colours.
If you're drawing with a specific theme in mind, this could be helpful for choosing the
right colours. For Dr. Holiday Fries, it made sense to use bright red and green and additionally,
it's a complimentary colour scheme. If you want to watch this drawing in real time, check out
our livestream replay in the description below. Welcome to Day 2 of our holiday livestream.
I have some foods in mind, and I'm going to draw a mug first. Just think of drawing a
cylinder. I wanted to put whipped cream, maybe marshmallows on whipped cream. I'm just going to
add some ears to this cup, like an animal themed mug. I'm going to add some quick colours to it.
I just want to add a little bit of shine, and some sprinkles of cocoa powder. If I wanted to
create that illusion of the dusting of cocoa powder, because right now it's just sprinkles.
Okay, that's the first one! I'm going to move on to the second one - ice cream. So I'm going to start
drawing the ice cream, but if you guys have any ice cream flavors in mind, you can let me know.
So with anything, I just start with a simple shape, like the first one was a cylinder this one
is a cone. Depending on what kind of ice cream you want, I want kind of a swirly one, so I'm just going to
draw that soft serve shape. It's just cylinders on top of each other. So, I just added some detail to my cone.
Let's just add a quick face here. Maybe sleeping ice cream?
And following the shape of the cone, I'm just going to do a little crisscross. I'm going to drop my
opacity a bit lower too, because I don't want those crisscross lines to stand out a whole lot. So again,
thankfully my sketch is clean enough that I can select the outside, inverse (my selection), and then colour -
very quick. They should be blushing a little bit, they have those little
blushy marks and I forgot that. There we go, it's like it's ten times cuter just because of that.
I want these cute food illustrations to be fairly pastel in color. Let's see, for french fries,
I'm going to draw spicy curly fries - I like curly fries, that's a good idea. Maybe I'll
make the box red and green. [Question from Viewer]: What's the shortcut for that transform function? So the transform
function that I'm using, I believe doesn't actually have a shortcut, I customized it myself. So in Clip
Studio Paint specifically, you can find it under Edit>Transform and then there's "Mesh Transform".
If you use MediBang, it also has the same function. Then you can play around with how many boxes
your grid has over here in this settings panel. Right now it's set to 4 x 4, if I put in 10 -
10 x 10, you can see my grid increases, and then that lets you edit your picture more finely.
There's going to be quite a lot of fries I guess. I'm going to finish the fries and then I guess we can see.
Okay, I'm just going to add a couple more fries in the front because it's looking a little
empty. Let's give it a little bit of a mischievous, devious looking face
[Comment from Viewer]: "It looks like a crazy doctor", actually, that's a cool idea! That doctors have.
Let me draw one in pretty quickly (head mirror). So I'm only colouring the curly fries.
Holiday box - so red and green. I'm just going to add some spices or textures for the curly parts.
I said I'd make another one with a mask. He's slowly coming together. So if you haven't already,
don't forget join us on social media and then I promise, I will post the finished results of these
on there! [Request from Viewer]: I liked Yeri's suggestion - taiyaki. I'll start with a simple simple shape,
and add a fin. Let's give it a little hat. So, a tip: if you ever want to make something
look cuter, just squish their features closer together like the mouth closer to the eyes.
I'm just going to use a darker brown color to make some some parts look more toasted.
Just adding little blushing marks. There it is, our last one for today!
So I hope these tips can help you draw your very own cute food illustrations.
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