How to Draw Cool Clouds

The sky is the background of every landscape. Normally you tin replace it with a white background, directing attention to more than important elements of the picture. Still, sometimes clouds or sun tin brand a scene more attractive and interesting.

In this tutorial I will show y'all how to draw these "background elements": a cloud, a sunny sky, and a starry heaven.

What Yous Volition Need

Some sheets of paper
Hard pencil (HB)
Medium soft pencil (2B)
Soft pencil (5B or lower)
Cotton swab/blending stump
Eraser
White gel pen (only for the starry sky)

You can read more most these tools in the introduction to How to Draw Copse.

1. How to Draw a Cloud

Step i

Use a difficult pencil to sketch the shape of a cloud very lightly, drawing a few intersecting ovals in various sizes.

Step 2

Draw a ragged outline of the cloud going effectually the shape suggested past the ovals.

Footstep iii

Tilt your pencil to describe with a side of information technology. Elevate information technology all effectually the cloud, covering the background with gray. Don't push too hard, and endeavor to create uniform strokes.

Step four

Utilise your blending tool (cotton swab, blending stump, finger wrapped in a tissue) to blend the strokes. Try non to ruin the general outline of the cloud.

Stride v

Take a softer pencil and repeat the previous two steps. Again, don't press also hard—you can't blend something that has been pushed deep into the paper!

Pace 6

Have an eraser, make sure it'south clean ("erase" a spare piece of newspaper to remove dirty parts), and carefully "describe" ragged parts of the deject. To go on them white, clean the eraser from time to time or rotate it to use a cleaner corner.

Footstep seven

Take the softest pencil and add together some darker strokes right backside the outline. Alloy it also.

Step 8

Take a hard pencil and sketch the outline of the shadow surface area.

Step 9

Shade the shadow area, tilting the pencil.

Step 10

Blend the shadow, trying to stay within the outlines of the cloud.

Step eleven

Add small shadows in the calorie-free area...

... and blend them.

Step 12

Have the eraser and use it to make the border between light and shadow clearer.

If it gets as well clear, you tin always blend it:

Footstep 13

Take the softest pencil and use information technology to make the outline more hit.

2. Depict a Sunny Sky

Step 1

Utilise a hard pencil to draw a very subtle outline of the sun. It doesn't demand to be a perfect circle.

Stride 2

Tilt the pencil to darken the heaven around.

Stride 3

Alloy it as described in the previous section.

Step four

If the blending process distorted the outline of the sun, apply the eraser to make clean it.

Step 5

Use the eraser to "depict" the vivid parts of the clouds around.

Footstep 6

Have a softer pencil and darken the heaven effectually the clouds and sun. Leave a lighter band around the sun.

Stride 7

Darken the heart part of the clouds likewise, staying abroad from the borders.

Step 8

Darken the sky some more than, using a softer pencil if necessary.

Step 9

Make the sky fifty-fifty darker, but only at a altitude from the lord's day.

Step 10

Use the eraser to "depict" the outline of the clouds.

Step 11

Use the softest pencil to increase the contrast by adding some night.

3. Draw a Starry Sky

Step 1

Darken the sky, tilting your hard pencil.

Step ii

Alloy it as explained before.

Step 3

Take a softer pencil and darken the sky part by office.

Yous tin go out some brightness in the middle to simulate the Galaxy.

Step 4

Take the softest pencil and draw the outline of the mountains (or trees—something to testify the states the scale).

Footstep 5

Fill the foreground shape with the darkest shade you can attain (keep in listen that graphite reflections can only exist removed afterwards in mail service-production).