Palette Study I: Sunset

[.Rai]

I really got in the mood for drawing skies. Part of my project to practise vertical canvases.

 

[Night]

The perspective could potentially be amazing.

 

Really liking the scarred sky look, it works tremendously well here.

 

Far too empty for my liking though, wip? 

[.Rai]

The perspective could potentially be amazing.

Really liking the scarred sky look, it works tremendously well here.

Far too empty for my liking though, wip?

Quite wip-ish. Couldn't progress any further today without it looking just stale. Hills was originally an ocean (gave up, because it was seriously difficult). I might just do another sky piece, and fill it up a bit more, because I do agree, this is unnecessarily empty.

Thanks, Night <3

[chairman ali]

Take this advice from someone who was TERRIBLE at clouds and became a master at them; never sacrifice normal brushes.

Clouds are the best way to learn smoothening and transitioning. They are made up of dabs. You have to fill your clouds with dabs instead of brushing them like that. Painting essentially is about spotting the colours and values. Once you can spot the correct colours and values you will understand what you are doing. Clouds are essentially formless. They have no specific form. So you have to exclude shapes from this completely. It is amazing that painting is usually about shapes and colours but clouds are one of those things that do not have a shapes so they break the boundaries of painting.

[.Rai]

Take this advice from someone who was TERRIBLE at clouds and became a master at them; never sacrifice normal brushes.
Clouds are the best way to learn smoothening and transitioning. They are made up of dabs. You have to fill your clouds with dabs instead of brushing them like that. Painting essentially is about spotting the colours and values. Once you can spot the correct colours and values you will understand what you are doing. Clouds are essentially formless. They have no specific form. So you have to exclude shapes from this completely. It is amazing that painting is usually about shapes and colours but clouds are one of those things that do not have a shapes so they break the boundaries of painting.

My usual cloud process as of late is to take in a general form, and then erase it from the edges and from within in order to essentially remove the form. I used a custom smoke brush. I will have a go at your method, because I definitely trust your advice when it comes to clouds.

I guess that clouds is a lot of practice regarding colour and tone especially. Something which I've not actually practically played about with; only in theory.

[chairman ali]

I did some digging around for you-you're lucky because I never look into my old files hahahaha-and I found this. This was actually my very first cloud practice.

 

 

You could essentially see that it is mostly about plotting in the correct tonal values. You can really add any colour you want but if the tone isn't correct it won't turn out as anything.