Here’s the second illustration of my spring series! Like I mentioned in yesterday’s post, some aspects of those sketches went on to become this. Most notably, the arrangement of lemon and chamomile was inspired by the panna cotta sketch on the left page, the Rilakkuma cookies of the strawberry dessert lead to me adding a little duck/chick cookie to the top of this cake, and the strawberry tulip dessert on the right page prompted me to add strawberries to the sides of the cake!
Here’s some process shots! As you can see, the strawberries were a last minute fix as I had started out with heart-shaped sponges along the edges of the cake. I really didn’t like how it was turning out though so I change direction with them at the end. I still really like the idea of having little heart-shaped additions as part of the desserts I draw, but it just didn’t work out this time, and I can always count on strawberries to fix a problem!