Let's Paint: Oozy Chocolate Donut with Watercolors

Hi everyone! My name is Nia and I’ll be your teacher for today’s class. Today we’re going to be painting these realistic oozy chocolate donut, this one was so much fun to paint, so I’d like to share with you my process of painting this one.

In this class I will show you the full process of how I completed this painting from start to finish and I will break it down into shorter lessons so it’s easier to follow along to.

I won’t be including the drawing portion in this class however, I will provide you with the line art as well as the references and the photo which inspired me to paint this subject but if you would like to draw out your own donuts, you can also do that because this painting consists of very simple shapes to replicate.

Most of the steps of this painting are actually fairly easy despite how detailed it looks, however there are certain sections which will require a bit of instinct, so like usual as my other food illustration classes, I would classify this as more of an intermediate level. But as always, if you’re a beginner and you’re interested in trying it out, you’re definitely welcomed, and just try to work at your own pace and your own level of comfort.

I’m so excited for this one because I just find that the techniques are so much fun to follow along to, we’re going to create different textures from the golden crust, the oozy chocolate to the soft bread and dusting of icing sugar which is so satisfying to do.

Like all my other classes I’ll be speeding or skipping through parts of the class where the steps might be repetitive or if my hand is off camera to get the class going, so if you decide to paint along, I’d suggest for you to watch either the full class, or individual lessons prior to painting along so you know what to expect. And when it’s time to paint, you can pause in between the steps, so you can always work and figure things out as you go in your own time, and move on to the next step when you’re ready.

Hope you enjoy this class!

OUTLINE

1. Introduction
2. Supplies and Colours
3. Preparing the paper and Line art
4. Tracing
5. Start Painting: Middle Doughnut
6. Bottom Donut
7. Top Donut: Soft Inner Crumb
8. Top Donut: Crust
9. Additional Donut Texture
10. Chocolate Base
11. Shadows on Chocolate
12. Chocolate Highlights
13. Halved Strawberry
14. Strawberry
15. Strawberry Leaves
16. Splatters and Shadows
17. Icing Sugar
18. Icing Sugar Shadows
19. Final Overall Adjustments
20. Closing and Class Project