if you're a beginner painter out there and you suck at painting clouds don't worry i
got you covered my friend tally's going to show you how to paint beautiful clouds just
like this with acrylic paint this is an awesome step-by-step tutorial that you don't want to miss
gonna let you in on a little secret i'm great at painting clouds in oil paint but not the best
when it comes to acrylic paint but don't worry my friend tally gonna show you how to make
beautiful clouds that are super easy fluffy and they stand out i made a butt ton of notes that's
going to help you out in the step-by-step guide so without further ado here we go after you've
dropped in your background color we are going to load a filbert brush with your darkest cloud color
and pull your clouds down from the top of the crown towards the center of the cloud this will
create a nice clean defined top but allow you to build your cloud easily try your best to work in
an upside down U motion this is going to allow you to build and layer huge fluffy clouds once you've
created your base structure for your cloud with this dark color we can now move on to our mid-tone
colors for tally it's a mixture of his darkest cloud color mixed with the blue sky the reason he
does this is it's going to allow him to achieve a natural depth that occurs in the painting
it's also going to allow him to layer easily since he's taking these two colors and mixing them to a
nice creamy texture which makes it easier for him to layer on top of that dark color when tally's
doing his mid-tones he loves to fade his mid-tones from his lighter side to his darker side the
reason he does this is twofold one he defined his light source at the top right corner so naturally
the light source is gonna fade from right to left creating depth within the painting number
two is tally likes to create what i call hyper surrealism his clouds are going to look natural
but it's also going to create this unique focal point for when you look at it curious to what this
means don't worry you'll see it as we get a little further on in this tutorial now we can move on to
our highlights in our cloud now grab a script liner brush and a dagger brush load your script
liner with a thinned color highlight color for tally it's a mixture of a very light purple color
outline the top of your clouds for tally he likes to use two methods the first one is stippling your
highlights in this basically means that you're going to take your script liner brush which has
a nice thin light purple paint on and basically create little dots next to each other the reason
he likes to do this is it gives him more control of how he can outline his cloud for a couple of
steps coming up here in just a moment also the nice thing about stippling with your highlights
is it will create more of a concentration of color basically looking like more light hit a dense part
of a cloud the second technique that tally likes to use is outlining with his highlights this will
create natural ridges of light that allows you to form your clouds into different shapes now
tally will switch back and forth between these two techniques depending on what he wants to do in his
cloud but one thing he does with each one of these techniques is he likes to take his dagger brush a
clean dagger brush and pull down the highlights and fade them into the softer part of the cloud
this is going to create more of a natural fade and give your cloud more defined characteristics once
you've added in all your highlights depending on what technique feels most comfortable for you and
fade them in with a dagger brush now we can work on specular highlights if you're not sure what
a specular highlight is you can check out this video right here that will show you how specular
highlights can make your painting stand out even more but if you're too lazy to watch that hey i
get it essentially a specular highlight is the brightest point in your painting element that's
going to be essentially pure white now before we add our specular highlights i really recommend
that you allow the previous highlight layer to tacky up a little bit give it 10 to 15 minutes
which means you can concentrate on thinking about other elements in your painting think about the
horizon or mid-ground or where you want to block in certain shapes or if you're like me go ahead
and crack a beer and you can enjoy your painting i mean after all it should be an enjoyable time
making youtube videos are so hard i actually did that i don't feel so good
it got everywhere but can you believe i'm single ladies i know now when it comes to adding specular
highlights we're just going to repeat the same steps we did for our normal highlights but what
you want to think about is where the sunlight or your source of light is hitting your cloud
strongest because those are going to be your brightest points in your cloud so don't overdo
it with specular highlights kind of use them in little pieces but really think about how that
sunlight is coming across or your light source and add those particular pieces now if you add
a little too much of specular highlight hey the cool thing is you can go back with that clean
dagger brush and fade them into your cloud and that's going to add some natural characteristics
to your cloud again and i'm feeling like i got a little bit of a buzz but you got the point
with all these steps completed you can either continue to build multiple layers
of clouds or you can carry on creating an awesome landscape and the cool part is tally
already went ahead and created an awesome step-by-step tutorial landscape painting
that you can follow along with this is perfect for new painters out there
and beginners because we're going to take you through the entire process and this is all done
with cheap and easy acrylic paint now if you want to check out this video you can check it out
over here in the top right corner it's gonna be our next video that comes out and if you
see this video before it's there hey check out one of our older videos but until then
enjoy your acrylic painting and i'm gonna go grab another beer i'll catch you later peace