From the course: Drawing Foundations: Sketching the Landscape

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Sky and clouds

Sky and clouds

- One of the things you have to battle with when you're out on location is how to capture the changing landscape around you. It could be a fleeting moment of a cloud that changes position, or the flickering reflections on water. So, it can be really handy to have a few basic techniques for how to do cloud formations that can really help you when you're out on location. Clouds in particular can really add atmosphere to a landscape sketch, so they're a good thing to focus on. I'm now gonna talk you through a couple of basic methods for getting clouds down quickly. The most common clouds that beginners are often drawn to is when you see a real mass of fluffy clouds and they look really impressive to the eye and you feel that that drama that you're seeing in front of you should be able to come across a drawing really easily. But in drawing, you just have to be aware of the whole shape of the cloud and how that is affecting your composition. So here there's these brilliant clouds but…

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