Painting Cartoon Clouds

Makkyo · Nov 2013

Okay so im a 3D Arch Viz artist with not much freehand drawing skills (other than some basic architectural drawing skills), im currently working on a game in my spare time, i have done a lot of the 3D artwork for it, and some programming, however im stuck on the background image.

What would be the easiest way to create these clouds in Photoshop, does anybody know of any existing brushes that are very similar? or maybe a workflow for me to try out in PS.

Thanks.

Nut · Nov 2013

it looks like you need only a round brush with hard edge and one with soft edge.
first i would draw the white form of the cloud,
then add light blue half circles with the soft edged brush in the lower area of the cloud (big brush is better).
Better to use a mask for the white cloud, so you can't go over the edge with the big soft brush, and keep the hard edge of the cloud.

hope it works out.

Makkyo · Nov 2013

Thanks, that seems like a good method, i will try it out when i get home, might aswell perfect this method since i will be needing these clouds often.

Thanks again.

Painting Cartoon Clouds

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