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Stelara — Stelara's sky tutorial
Published: 2011-08-20 17:12:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 42629; Favourites: 2081; Downloads: 979
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This is the way I draw the sky in my backgrounds usually. I really hope this will help someone out there
Comment here if you have something to ask, I'll come and try to help you
Yeah sorry for poor english
If you don't like this tutorial try these:
www.minnasundberg.fi/pictures/… 's clouds tutorial
megatruh.deviantart.com/art/sk… 's sky+clouds tutorial
vakhara.deviantart.com/art/Sky… 's Sky tutorial
fav.me/d21222o 's Clouds tutorial (with markers)
fav.me/d5i945k Awesome night sky tutorial by
These are my personal favourites, I hope some of them will be useful for you if mine doesn't work.
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Comments: 89
Thank you so much for the tutorial! it helped me a lot <3
Used it here: xshinuyoru.deviantart.com/art/…
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Thanks for the wonderful tutorial!!! I used it here: fav.me/da65yys
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This tutorial looks so great! Thank you so much for wanting to share this with us!
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thank for this, it was a great help. i used it here .:Lau :.
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Thank you so much!
Imean it's not amazing but I guess it's fairly good for a first time, I still have to practice though
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I think it's pretty good. And you get points for trying
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Thank you so much for this tutorial! It really helped me a lot.
I used it to make this msjpsakura.deviantart.com/art/…
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What is the length of you canvas? btw, the tutorial is awesome! I loved it!
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Hi! Since this was just a tutorial I used 1600×1600 or something like that, but you should use what you're accustomed to. This goes for brushsize too, I've never been confident with big strokes so I usually use smaller sized brushes.
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thank you for the tutorial, used here irenerei.deviantart.com/art/Ac…
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This tutorial is really helpfull and because I'm doing/starting a tutorial blog on tumblr I wanted to ask if I may upload this there? c: I'll credit you of course c:
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Of course! You can also cut it into smaller pieces and upload as a photoset if you want to, since tumblr is not very supportive with large images like this one.
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I have a question about step 3, what color do you use to dot?. Thanks a lot
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I think I was just picking up the colours randomly from nearby areas on the picture, the shortcut for this is to press alt and then left click on the area where you want to pick it from. If you dont want to sweat with it just pick some light blue like the second from the palette.
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Thanks a lot c: you're very kind
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Love your tutorial! Gotta get more practice at it~ dreamersdust32.deviantart.com/…
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Gave your tutorial a try silversoulartist.deviantart.co…
I need to practice more lol
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OMG! This was so much help!!! I follow almost every step!
[link] it mint look weird it cuz I used sketchbookPro on my IPad...
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i have a question.. is it ok if i use water tool for the clouds? i don't have sensibility my pen doesn't have it and i color with mouse. :/
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Well I've tried it. I don't know how experienced you are with mouse, i'm pretty bad with it but I did my best so here's what I've figured out:
Watertool worked fine for me with these settings:
Density:50%, Blending:56, Dilution:59 and I used the marker tool with the spread shape(with the value 50)(like you can see in the 8th step I used the marker with the spread with value 84)
I think you should ignore step 3 an 4 and just blend your background colours smoothly, but you can try follow these steps,honestly I failed so hard that I gave up after a few mins and blended the whole thing.
For the clouds: painting them with watercolour is going to take a lot of time, I sometimes dotted in pure white with marker(density 100)and blended in because I couldn't get the white I wanted. Also use colorpicking from near areas (alt + click)it'll be much nicer if you do.
So my main tips are colorpicking and changing brush size often.
Here's what I got in the end: [link]
Sorry for long and "the worst english ever" comment but I hope it was informative enough. I wish you luck and patience!
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omg ty so much !!!!! this was real helpful >o< !!! i'm not very good with mouse but it worked perfectly c:
P.D: i thought i had replied this before XD it might have bugged. oh and u have real good english (i must apologize for my english orz )
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ooh, my sky doesn't look as nice as yours, but it's improved!! thanks for making this friend uwu
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thanks for the tutorial
i really need to practice the sky
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I kind of semi used this tutorial here.. [link] Thanks!
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This tutorial has helped a lot, thank you very much~
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I found your tutorial and it helped me a lot with one of my latest pictures - [link]
I tweaked the way you showed us by just a bit so that it was easier for me and in my eyes looks good <3 Thank you SO much <3
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Oh wow! Your picture is awesome! Thank you very much for linking back, and for the kind words in the description, I really appreciate it.
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Well it is all true what I said. Your tutorial made is easy for me to make better clouds! And I recommend it to all artists who wish to get better at clouds
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Thank alot. It' sreally useful for me. I had some problems with skies!
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This is great, it might have been in Sai but enough of your method was explained that it's easy to figure out in Photoshop too
~VelkynKarma
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this is amazing..*drool* this help me so much.. *bow bow*
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Helpfullness~
Now I might be able to draw clouds in the future
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Thank you! Your tutorial is great, and also thanks for sharing the other cloud tutorials, that's very cool of you = )
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This tutorial really helped me. I am sooo grateful. Thank you, thank you!
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You're welcome!
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You saved my life with that tutorial!
And I hardly believe it's better than yours
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Very nice. I tried it, and it turned out pretty good, but a few things didn't work to great for me because I use a mouse, so pressure isn't something I can control. Any tips to substitute for that?
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Well I've tried it without pen and that's how it goes:
-You can do everything without changing anything until the fourth step. (Since marker with blending 100 is not really pressure sensitive it's just a smudging tool there, but I recommend to use the blur tool with opacity 20 or 10)
-In the fifth step you should add the cloud base with changing the opacity of your marker tool (you can use airbrush as you wish)
First I added "white" with opacity 30, then coloured over with 60 and then 85. You can do it with about 10 30 50 70 90 if you want, it 'll be more detailed, and closer to the picture in the tutorial at the 5. step.
-In the sixth step I changed the opacity of the eraser I used it between 10 and 20 (you can use it 1 to 20 so you can get a better result) Also changed the size more than I can count (10 to 20) small brush for little clouds and bigger for bigger clouds. I used clicking (looks like dotting)because it's more controllable than moving the mouse from point to point (maybe just for me)
The bluring part is the same everywhere, I used the blur tool with opacity 15 and 10.
Opacity is called density in Sai sorry for messing with the words.
It looks something like this for me: overlay layer:73 multiply:28
[link]
Hope it helps
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ooh. Thanks. ^^ that helps.
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