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Gold Painting Tutorial by CelestialFang

HEhehehehehe OK So there’s this tool called Airbrush (I use the free version of Sketchbook btw):

Very useful for fluffy soft things and shading. (I pretty much almost exclusively use Pencil and Airbrush and a select few custom brushes.)

I drew two different types of clouds So, here we go:

Cumulus:

light outline of the general shape (don’t use white. I suggest light grey, grey-blue, light pink/orange/purple, for various times of day/lighting. storm clouds are simular, but use dark grey, dark blue, dark purple, or, maybe, red or yellow all these color variations will change the mood and what time of day it might indicate. For Patton’s I used mostly light pink to indicate early morning/sunrise)

Fill lightly with differing weight throughout, let your intuition guide you honestly.

I then go to the lowest line weight in Sketchbook

and outline again

Using this general stroke pattern:

After that, I kinda just play around, fluff things up and add more definition and define where highlights are

(honestly, you can leave it here, depending on how dense you want your cloud to look.)

After that, I get a darker color (again usually not black or dark grey, a greyish-dark tone of whatever light color you had initially works very nice.) And fill in the areas that will have shading.

Clouds do follow the rules of 3D objects and shading, they’re just….in the sky. Depending on the time of day, the sun can hit them from behind, above or to the side. Know where the sun is and you know where to generally place the shadowing. Add the darkest shadows to the base of the cloud.

After that, I go back to either a very light color, or white, and add more highlights and fluffiness.

Cirrus (honestly these are my favorite kinda clouds?):

With these clouds, you’ll wanna start with a slightly darker color, and make some curvy lines.

bring in the highlight color and go back over a few areas

Then it’s time to break out the pencil tool! get a highlight color, and go over the highlight regions, in a somewhat similar pattern to the cumulus cloud.

Also doing this general pattern & light crosshatching works nicely on these.

That, and:

“Wing basics” by Twarda8: http://bit.ly/2SFgeSK

Here’s a breakdown for hands too ‘cause why not.