(Originally posted on 2025-07-01)

Today is @bleupale.bsky.social's birthday! Apart from being my first mutual, I've found out Bleu is really quite amazing. She's probably the kindest person I know, she has done a lot to help me integrate into art communities, and has single-handedly shaped my experience here. I'm forever grateful for all the advice she's given to me, both about art and personal life matters, and I feel really, really fortunate to have her as a friend. <3

I wanted to draw something to honor her, a birthday cake, and since her favourite kind of cake is tiramisu, that's how we got here.

In particular, i wanted an elegant presentation of the cake, hence the golden fork and the square plate somewhat matching the cake's shape.

For the record, in the beginning the canvas was like a third of the current size; it was really zooming in on the plate.

I found the fork a bit difficult. The prongs are not super readable on this resolution, the outline has some jaggies, and the colors i used are a bit too green, as i'm realising. The shines are also not too noticeable, maybe i should've sacrified some luminance for saturation. (?)

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