Now, we will be working on the final layer of frosting. Add another layer of swirl right below the previous layer by drawing a slightly bigger oval shape.
How to Draw a Cupcake – Step by Step Guide
Not everyone has a sweet tooth, but cupcakes are an exception because everyone loves it. Despite its tiny size, it will surely take your taste buds on an enjoyable and flavorful experience.
Even more so if the cupcakes have sprinkles and a cherry on top, then you’re definitely in for a treat. What better way to showcase your artistic skills than drawing a delicious cupcake?
Fortunately, we have curated a step-by-step tutorial on how to draw a cupcake, summarized in 9 easy and simple steps.
You can apply these steps whether you want to draw a realistic-looking cupcake or an animated one. Each step is accompanied with comprehensible illustrations that serve as your visual guide as you follow the instructions.
Whether you are a novice or an expert in drawing, we’re sure you can follow these steps effortlessly. What’s more, you can add your own style and improvise in every step.
Mix and match colors to personalize your artwork and make it unique. Feel free to let your imagination wander and unleash your creativity.
Have fun creating your very own unique and delectable cupcake drawing!
How to Draw a Cupcake – Let’s get started!
Starting at the upper portion of your drawing space, create the frosting by drawing a tip of a swirl. When drawn correctly, it should look like a curved droplet of water. And of course, you can make the frosting appear as big or as small as you prefer.
Keep in mind to start drawing from the top to the bottom to give you sufficient space to draw your entire cupcake along with its wrapper.
Here’s a useful tip: in order to ensure that the cupcake will be drawn in the middle, you can draw a horizontal and vertical line across the paper to serve as your reference lines.
Step 2 – Draw the Topmost Part of the Frosting
Now that you have drawn the tip of the frosting in the previous step, it’s time to complete the topmost layer of the icing.
Draw a curved line on either side of the frosting’s tip to create one layer of frosting. Make sure that the both ends of the line are close to each other, but don’t meet.
When drawing the icing, it’s important to keep in mind that you’re working from top to bottom and not the other way around. That means, the next layers of icing will be drawn right underneath the previous one.
How to Draw Cupcake
Learn how to draw a great looking Cupcake with easy, step-by-step drawing instructions, and video tutorial.
By following the simple steps, you too can easily draw a perfect Cupcake.
Complete Cupcake drawing
Cupcakes, often called fairy cakes or patty cakes in Britain or Australia, are small, sweet cakes designed to be eaten by just one person. The cakes are often baked in a colorful paper or foil wrapper and decorated with icing, as well as sprinkles, fruit, candles, or plastic character rings.
The earliest mention of a cupcake appears in the book American Cookery in 1796. The were sometimes called “123 cakes” because it was easy to remember the recipe – one spoon of soda, one cup each of milk and butter, two cups sugar, three cups flour, and four eggs.
The earliest cupcakes didn’t include icing, but today, cupcake decorations can be very elaborate, and have at times been the subject of reality television shows. Did you know? The world’s largest cupcake weighed more than 1,200 pounds and contained over 2 million calories.
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Would you like to draw your very own cupcake? Doing so is easier than ever with the aid of this simple, step-by-step drawing guide. All you will need is a pencil, an eraser, and a piece of paper.
Notice that each step in this drawing tutorial includes an illustration as well as explanatory text. In each picture, new lines added are highlighted in blue. Other steps involve removing previously drawn lines, called guide lines.
How will you decorate your cupcake? If you need a little inspiration, check out these fun cupcake decorating ideas. Whether you’re into sports, flowers, or Perry the Platypus, you’ll find just the right design.
Have plenty of crayons, colored pencils, markers, or paints ready to color your finished drawing. Don’t stop with just one cupcake – draw up a whole batch to share with your friends!
If you liked this tutorial, see also the following drawing guides: Cake, Crown, and Pie.
Step-by-Step Instructions for Drawing a Cupcake
How to Draw a Great Looking Cupcake for Kids, Beginners, and Adults – Step 1
1. Begin by drawing two horizontal lines. The upper line should be longer than the lower line. These lines form the top and bottom of the cupcake wrapper.
Easy Cupcake Drawing – Step 2
2. Connect the horizontal lines using two straight lines, enclosing a trapezoid.
Easy Cupcake Drawing – Step 3
3. Draw a series of short, curved lines on the top of the trapezoid, forming a scalloped edge.
Easy Cupcake Drawing – Step 4
4. Draw a curved line beneath the trapezoid, giving the cupcake wrapper a rounded bottom.
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Easy Cupcake Drawing – Step 5
5. Erase the guide lines from the cupcake wrapper.
Easy Cupcake Drawing – Step 6
6. Draw the cupcake emerging from the wrapper. Do so by using a long, curved line to enclose a half circle.
Easy Cupcake Drawing – Step 7
7. Decorate the cupcake wrapper by drawing several sets of curved, parallel lines across it, giving it a striped pattern. Draw a few small circles on the cupcake, indicating sprinkles.
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Add More Details to Your Cupcake Picture – Step 8
8. The best part of a cupcake is the icing. Begin to draw the icing using a long, curved line.
Complete the Outline of Your Cupcake Drawing – Step 9
9. Enclose the icing using curved lines. Note how the icing forms a spiral shape, similar to a soft-serve ice cream cone.
Color Your Cupcake Drawing
10. Color your cupcake. Be creative, because cupcakes can come in any color you can imagine. For example, you can use your favorite colors, your school colors, or the colors of your favorite sports team.
For more great Food drawing tutorials, see the 51 Easy and Fun Food Drawing Ideas post.
Easy, step by step Cupcake drawing tutorial
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Reference
For this cupcake drawing, I think we should use a reference image that has different elements to it and so I found this image. I think it’s perfect and will make for a challenging but fun tutorial to follow.
Based on this design, it would make more sense to build the base and work our way up. We’ll start with the cupcake itself, followed by icing, candle and lastly the decoration.
Steps For Drawing A Cupcake
Step 1
Let’s begin this cupcake drawing with two vertical lines that are straight and are slanted.
Both lines should look as if they could eventually meet at a center point if you were to keep extending them even though you won’t be.
Step 2
When your two lines are approximately 5- 8 cm in length, connect them with a slightly rounded horizontal line. This is now the cup that is being drawn to completion.
Step 3
As you can tell from our reference image above, our paper cup that holds the cake has a fence/triangle design. So, fill out as many mini triangles as you possibly can until you reach the opposite end.
Step 4
At the point at which each triangle ends, draw a straight line that connects to the horizontal baseline. Do this until there are no points that require a line.
Step 5
If you can tell, this drawing is based on an eye-level perspective because I feel like it’s easier but better to draw. So, instead of the cake looking flat, we can actually see a portion of it like you would in person.
To do this, draw a rounded and curved line on either sides of your cup that’s about 2 cm in length.
Thereafter, draw two more curved and rounded lines that are connected to the ones you first drew.
They should not extend beyond your first lines at all. Now connect these two specific lines with a wavy or curvy horizontal line until they meet.
The first layer is the cake and the second layer will be the icing.
Step 6
Repeat the steps above adding another layer. Each layer should be shorter in length, creating what looks like a mountain or triangular shape.
Step 7
Add one more layer of a similar size to the top of your icing but instead of connecting your lines, leave an empty space at the top.
Step 8
In the space between your last layer of icing, let’s add the candle.
You want to draw two parallel lines about 4 cm in length. At the top of these lines, connect them with a slightly curved line.
To decorate your candle, we’re going to create swirling effect by drawing parallel lines that are slanted and which curve like a wave or a reversed ‘S’ shape.
Step 9
Now let’s complete our candle by drawing a triangle at the top.
When you’ve added these lines which look like a triangle, draw a short straight line at the tip which will represent the twig.
Step 10
Now, let’s fill in the top two layers of our cupcake icing with decorations.
Start with a small triangle that fills in that empty space by the candle.
Thereafter, draw small rectangles that are rounded at the corners. These will look like the sprinkles used on most cupcakes and biscuits.
Step 11
Once you have draw a few sprinkles on your cupcake icing, all that’s left is to color it in and you’re done.
As you can tell, the first first layer above the cup is the cake itself.
You can use a cream like I have with a touch of brown or you can opt for different shades of brown for a chocolate cupcake or bran cupcake.
The cup can be any color you like, so feel free to play around with different shades.
I wanted to color code this drawing similarly to our reference image so I went with two shades of lilac for the icing.
As for the candle, I filled in our wavy shapes with color while leaving every alternate one white. This creates the effect that we are going for in this cupcake drawing.
Conclusion
I really hope you enjoyed this tutorial on how to draw a cupcake. It can seem quite intimidating to draw something from a picture but when you really sit down and plan, things start to fall into place.
With that being said, please head over to the comment section and let me know what drawing tutorial you would like for me to cover.
Also, be sure to check out some of my other fun and easy drawing tutorial linked below.
