today we are going to be drawing clouds epically the thing with clouds is that people always think
that clouds are actually a lot more difficult to draw than you'd think like people are like
oh I can't draw clouds I'm like I don't have a cloud brush I don't know how to do I promise you
it's actually not that bad to understand how to draw clouds let's look at actual clouds when we
look at Clouds themselves clouds if you don't really analyze them kind of just look like big
blobs but let's take a closer look at what these things are right notice that the shape of clouds
we got this fluffy bit on top and it actually kind of straightens out at the bottom of the
shape right not perfectly but it straightens out a little bit so if you've ever seen like
stylistic clouds they tend to just be drawn with that straight line at the bottom puffy
on top this one's a really good example you notice that the bottoms of the clouds are all
nice and very leveled out while the tops are very fluffy another thing you might want to notice is
look at the Shadows that hit clouds right look at these Shadows they're actually not that Blended in
they're a lot harsher than you might think right depending on the cloud of course but notice how
like harsh these Shadows actually are on the clouds right they're not that smooth it's not
they're not super super soft right you can make out almost outlines within the shapes of these
clouds right following that same fluffy texture but it's not like it's like super super Blended
right so if I was to render something like this out what I would actually recommend is starting
with the lights because like I've talked about like rendering stuff out before but if we were to
render out something like clouds I would actually recommend with starting with the lighter color so
again I see they're mostly what I'm doing if you notice with my brush you can see the outline of
my brush I'm working in circular motions I'm not going to do something super realistic but
I'm working in more circular motions to get this wispier look I also don't want it to be
a perfect up and down so I think I actually over rendered this let's try that again I don't want
a perfect up and down right I kind of want to add some variation to the shape not a perfectly
straight bottom but certainly more flat than the upper all right so once I kind of have a
shape that I want then I'm like okay then I'll start adding my Shadows back in right depending
on the time of day depending on where the light is coming from all that kind of stuff you can change
the color of your shadows I'm going with a more like daytime sort of cloud Shadow but again it's
not super Blended in what I'm using is a brush that is opacity by pressure so an opacity of
my pressure brush is just how hard you press will change how opaque the brushes all right I'll just
kind of start to so because it's sort of the daytime my Shadows because the light is more
of like a yellow tint my shadows will lean more to Blue so I'll just slowly get darker and darker
and clouds are actually as easy as that clouds are not that tough they're actually quite easy
I don't find Cloud stuff at all I have a cloud brush like I have a proper brush that's supposed
to like draw in clouds for you but I actually find I like this more stylistic thing because
you're working digitally there are brushes for everything right so you can find a cloud brush
really easily like with Cloud brushes are one of the main main FX brushes that you'll probably find
anywhere and like I think this looks alright but I think that manually doing it gives it a
different kind of life so I'm like there's a lot of different textures you can play around with
with this but let's say I want even more cartoony than this all right let's say that I really wanted
to like make this more minimal so let's break this down into two different values instead the
white of the cloud and one Shadow so once again I'm gonna kind of plan out my shape a little bit
working in this notice that I'm still working in more circular motions then I'm going to lock
this find what shadow color I want I'm going to draw in this shadow what I'm actually going
to do is I'm going to go back in and kind of erase a bit of the Shadow too like this
yeah I'm just going to kind of cut into the shadow to give it more visual variation yeah nice and
cartoony two values easy like that and I guess if you wanted to do line art all you'd have to
do is just add the line art first but I wouldn't regardless of like if you're a cartoony or not I
wouldn't add line art to clouds ever just because like clouds are very rarely your focal point
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thinner clouds are a little bit more like if you want something a little bit more thinner you still
want to keep that cartoony Style again I would turn on the opaque layer by opacity especially
if you want those sort of wispy looking clouds less is more so like if you want a kind of like
wispy across the air sort of look couple Strokes you're good enough yeah look at how much contrast
that has like I don't think people notice how much contrast clouds actually have very very important
nighttime clouds I think with clouds at night is that there will be no light bouncing on them so if
you have like a dark night sky all you got to do is just like slight lightness and just add those
clouds back in especially if it's at night if you have a moon somewhere like say if you've got like
a moon somewhere you could do an epic looking room what you could do you can do a really dark kind of
cloud because clouds at night really don't have a lot of light hitting them right because there
isn't a lot of light to begin with but if there's the moon there then they will have a little bit of
like Edge lighting because the Moon is now their light source right that sort of thing nice and
dark what I tend to do when I do some kind of Cloudy sky is just to add some color variation
first of all never use pure gray use something more Kindle like a blue or orange you're more
you're better off using a colder blue and then just add color variation in there tune in to our
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notifications for when we're live let's look at a cloudy day look at these gray skies these cloudy
dreary days right notice that even though it's like gray it's all gray there's still a little
bit of color variation in there some areas where the clouds are thinner some areas where the clouds
are thicker right so all you got to do is just add that variation back in so maybe there's some
areas in here and they're a little bit lighter and make sure you stick with your perspective as
well clouds are easy because you can make them follow perspective without being too precious
about it like just as long as it generally follows the general direction of your perspective you're
all good yeah some cloudy days are darker than others some are lighter gray skies are one of
those things where you actually don't want the contrast to be too high but there should be just
enough contrast to the point where you can tell like there's no sun out and here's the thing some
people will ask me like how do I do like Sunset clouds right it's zero difference from this one
or this one or this one you just gotta change the colors change the colors add some Rim light you're
all good right that's actually actually just change this one all right let's say that this one
was like at Golden hour right yellow deep purple and then like like a rim light almost and then
like a yellow which obviously would look better if there was actual sunsets to help you out there but
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