How To Draw Clouds With Coloured Pencils
Lightly outline the clouds and land and shade the sky.
How to draw clouds with coloured pencils. You can use the same color for both or use a medium blue to outline the clouds and medium gray green to outline the horizon. Your work is lovely and i appreciate your tips but i need to know how to color the sky and clouds using colored pencils preferably prismacolor but i also have all types. Types of paper used for drawing with colored pencils.
A time lapse video showing how i create puffy wispy clouds in coloured pencils. Blend a little draw a little. Create the patterns of the water s ripples by drawing elliptical shapes that mimic the movement of the water.
Learn how to draw with colored pencils and start working with colored pencils. If you have the time to tell me i would really appreciate it. How to draw clouds with colored pencil step 1.
Take your time and use a reference photo to make sure your shapes look natural. Use very light pressure to outline the clouds and the horizon. Finish the drawing by building up the colors until they burnish together.
These pencils are the best option for all skill levels. You will need to pay greater attention to highlights and shadows in order to make your clouds pop off the page so let s get started. I m having a lot of trouble using colored pencils rather than just regular pencils from which i ve had good results after watching some videos.
I go through each section as i draw it describing what i am doing giving tips and talking about the methods i use. Possibly the most difficult part of drawing clouds in pencil is the absence of color. I also used a 2b pencil to draw the small dark clouds at the bottom.
Hard leads can be frustrating to use because they break easily. In the water use four different shades of green limepeel apple green grass green and dark green using the lightest tone at the top of the drawing. To start with i kept to larger shapes establishing values and contours that i could add to later.
Each week i will be trying to create a new short time lapse alongside a narrated tutorial of how to draw certain subjects. If you have any ideas. Tips on layering developing values solvent blending and more.
Soft lead pencils generally cost a little more than regular colored pencils but you will notice the quality difference between the pencils. Good pencils range from 5 50 depending on how many colors you want to buy. We are using simple graphite pencils this works in charcoal as well so shading is important.
