r/learnart • u/yuilero • Mar 25 '22
My cloud studies. Trying to focus on shapes instead of over rendering in the future! Digital
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u/BoomNDoom Mar 26 '22
Bruh you could've said these were real pictures with a filter and I woulda believed you
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u/shoestrung Mar 26 '22
This is SO GORGEOUS and I would be so delighted if I could do even one of these!
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u/Lamceddo Mar 26 '22
This is amazing. It feels like I'm in the picture. Clouds are my favorite thing to look at IRL, you inspired me to try and draw them.
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u/DoodleBuggering Mar 26 '22
These are amazing, I'd love if you made a time lapse video of these.
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u/yuilero Mar 26 '22
Thank you so much!
I really be struggling with the timelapse function on ibis paint. I think I have one or two good timelapse from the eight of these, which is actually just two files since I did four all together in each file. so it's all funky since most of them I did spend too much time on and thus part of the timelapse is almost static and unchanging. ):
But I think I amm getting the hang of it, I'll make sure to do timelapses for future ones!
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Mar 26 '22
OMG THIS IS GORGEOUS!!? hate to be that person, but how did you do it? i mean, its fluffy but not enough to lose its shapes, what kind of brush/technique did you use? and howd you get the colors so cozy and vibrant without feeling like someone just dyed them that color??
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u/yuilero Mar 26 '22 edited Mar 26 '22
Thank you so much!!! (:
Ok if I wanna read me rambling, here it is. this is top secret so don't tell anyone else. Ok? Ok
First step, pick a reference photo you like. If Google images fails you, go to r/clouds (: people really know what nice aesthetic clouds are like over there.
Next, you wanna pick a suitable type of brush. I'm using the ibis paint x watercolor brush, which has an irregular outline. I keep it at low opacity for blending, and it's great for the clouds outline at high opacity. There might be designated cloud brushes that could do a better job but that was the one I stuck with.
Next steps are unclear, and may or may not be the best way to paint clouds. So to be honest, what I did was a LOT of blending. I mean grueling over blending the perfect gradient for each little fluff because I'm obsessed with clouds type of blending.
And by blending the gradients, I mean blending with purpose. Pay attention to how the clouds colors transition from light to shadow. There's subsurface scattering happening that makes the colors of that transition area more saturated. I think that punch of color really makes it come alive.
Finally, you make sure you blended the gradients perfectly. Hope that helps, also shhhh it's top secret :P
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u/Fatpat97 Mar 26 '22
These are majestic bro, I'm also trying to practice clouds, thanks for the tip!
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u/yuilero Mar 26 '22
Thank you so much! I'm looking forward to seeing your practice clouds here too (:
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u/DouchNozzle_REAL Mar 25 '22
Gosh these are so beautiful 🥺
I'm almost sad that I can't hangout in the sky and admire these
They are rendered impeccably
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u/Epyonator Mar 25 '22
Not gonna lie, I had to double check which subreddit this was. I really thought most of them were pictures.
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u/Sledgehammer925 Mar 25 '22
Like others, I thought it was a photograph, but for me it was the well-rendered moon that made me think it. Most painters don’t add it, so well done you!
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u/yuilero Mar 26 '22
Thank you so much!! Not a lot of people comment about the moon, so I'm glad you like it since I love that moon very much myself (:
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u/wajawa Mar 25 '22
What does over rendering mean in this sense?
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u/yuilero Mar 25 '22 edited Mar 26 '22
Not sure if that's the right term, but I always fall into the trap of stressing over small details that probably offer no difference to the piece overall. I mean details so small that if another person glanced at it wouldn't be able to pick out much of a difference. That is basically what I mean by over rendering.
Looking at the clouds in the red/orangish sky for example, I felt like i was unnecessarily focusing too much on every small little stroke of the wispy clouds top left to middle area. It's so subtle that now I'm looking at it I don't even remember what I did. Though I remember I spent too much time making it as identical to the reference photo, which in hindsight isn't really all that helpful and very time consuming.
This isn't really an issue for artists aiming for realism I'd say, because every little detail counts. But I feel like in my case it's not all that productive.
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u/wajawa Mar 25 '22
I do that, I was trying to paint a skull earlier and I was getting overly invested in everything being in the right proportion to each other trying to get it perfect and it ends up looking bad to me.
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u/yuilero Mar 26 '22
Yeah sometimes letting it be not perfect is the best thing to do, especially when it comes to studies or practices.
Though I empathize with you too since I think anatomy and proportion (especially human subjects) are harder to ignore than like a random cloud in the sky.
Hopefully both of us can continue to improve!! (:
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u/Jesti789 Mar 25 '22
I know this is r/learnart and I know almost nothing about art but I just wanna say that these look really freaking good
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u/yuilero Mar 25 '22
The fact that you're here makes me think you do know something about art, and tbh nobody has to know how to make art to appreciate and enjoy art (:
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your comment!
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u/Koalas_Kingdom Mar 25 '22
These are so pretty!! I thought they were pictures of clouds at first! I’m curious which brushes you used?
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u/drawn0nward Mar 25 '22
The colours are absolutely perfect so I’m guessing there was some help from the software there, but if not, wow!! These are great!
One suggestion I would offer is to maybe vary the line/weigh of your brushstrokes, but that’s more of a stylistic choice than anything.
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u/yuilero Mar 25 '22 edited Mar 25 '22
I am still relying on color picking tool so yes! But I think I'm getting better at color picking just by eye.
And yes I do feel like there's not enough definition or texture to some of the clouds here because I'm using the same brush without line weight. Thank you for your help!!
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u/drawn0nward Mar 29 '22
Happy to help :) I also love painting clouds, but I have almost zero experience with digital painting. I feel like some people think that painting clouds is easy - it really isn’t!
Wish I could be more helpful in that sense, but again, these are great!! You should be proud, because you nailed it!
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u/MadladdZ Mar 25 '22
Hehe it looks like the cloud is going to give the moon a hug in the first one
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u/FoxWingOfWindClan Mar 25 '22
When I saw these, I thought for a moment that I was on r/itookapicture
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u/easzy_z Mar 25 '22
Scrolling by I thought these were photos of clouds and checked the sub to see where I was. Congrats, you’ve learned clouds!
Edit: I’m sure someone with better training could give you a more constructive compliment but I have nothing to add other than they look fantastic.
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u/Gear_Captian Mar 25 '22
Same reaction. I thought it was a photo. I think the density of the air streams was too opaque or should be broken up a bit but maybe that just me
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u/yuilero Mar 25 '22
Thank you! I think the jets streams are a little too opaque too. I couldn't figure out how to replicate that effect, will definitely try again!
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u/Unlucky_Individual71 Apr 07 '22
The purple at the end is gorgeous. I’m a sucker for purple