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A cloud painting tutorial I originally whipped out for my art blog. [link] But people have found it useful, so I put it into a DA format.

I know experienced artists will laugh at my rudimentary attempts, but there are lots of beginning artists out there who need to know basic painting concepts.

This was made in Corel Painter, but you can use any image program, or physical paints, to get the same effect. Note that in watercolor or colored pencil, you have to work light to dark, not dark to light.

Additional note: Clouds come in lots of shapes and sizes, but an artist's challenge lies in figuring out the basic shape, then expanding on that and making it puffy. This cloud looked like a pyramid to me, but others are rectangles or circles or squares, depending on your reference.

Description
A cloud painting tutorial I originally whipped out for my art blog. [link] But people have found it useful, so I put it into a DA format.

I know experienced artists will laugh at my rudimentary attempts, but there are lots of beginning artists out there who need to know basic painting concepts.

This was made in Corel Painter, but you can use any image program, or physical paints, to get the same effect. Note that in watercolor or colored pencil, you have to work light to dark, not dark to light.

Additional note: Clouds come in lots of shapes and sizes, but an artist's challenge lies in figuring out the basic shape, then expanding on that and making it puffy. This cloud looked like a pyramid to me, but others are rectangles or circles or squares, depending on your reference.