Quick cloud formation technique

[Jono]

I expect this topic has been covered many times before, but whilst playing about with oils and palette knife (I'm an ink and watercolourist normally), I stumbled across something I thought I'd share. A quick, well, fairly quick, way of making some interesting looking clouds or smoke. A sample sticker is attached, but I'm no expert (so don't laugh too much), and I'm sure you can do better! Thanks, Jono.

[Bobbi]

Thank you for this great technique. This will work for other things.

[BushcraftOnFire]

Nice work Jono.. and thanks for the sticker sheet!

[Jono]

Thanks Bobbi and David.

Bobbi: Thank you for this great technique. This will work for other things.

Yes, sky's the limit .

BushcraftOnFire: Nice work Jono.. and thanks for the sticker sheet!

Thanks, and you're more than welcome.

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More tips

To make slightly more realistic looking clouds, I've found doing the following quite good with that particular (cloud 2) sticker:

Change these two object spray values:

• rotation = 0 (so the darker base of the cloud stays horizontal to the ground)
• pressure = 100 (prevents making small puffs of cloud - unless that's what you want of course!)

and I think it works better when used with:

• a big brush size (150 to 200%) - softer, more fluffy
• a low spray rate - more controllable
• set the brush colour to a mid red colour - produces a nicer balance of grey tones

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