how to draw stars in the sky

In this tutorial, learn how to draw compelling skies, including clear skies, rainy skies, moonlit nights, dawn and dusk. Comic artist Ann Maulina explains in particular how to choose colors for each scene and how to draw clouds.

Sunny Sky

We tin can hands differentiate clear, sunny sky and cloudy/rainy sky by the amount of clouds in the sky.

Fill the heaven with blue half tone colour. Add together two gradations. Darker one at the top, brighter i at the bottom. Don't forget to shift the hue! See my previous tutorial about a guide to color schemes to sympathise the importance of hue shift between colors.

And that's it! Y'all have a painting of a clear sky! （☉∀☉）

Add together some clouds for a clear-sky-merely-not-really. Employ a very light and pale yellow instead of white for a squeamish complementary color scheme.

Add together some more than cumulus clouds (fluffy clouds) for a dainty sunny sky.

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To pigment some fluffy clouds, I use a cluster of spheres for guide.

Clouds has many shapes. On windy days, the shape of clouds can be more like blurry lines instead of cluster of spheres.

Sky Perspective

Mind the perspective when drawing clouds in the sky. Clouds are spread across the sky. Without perspective applied, the sky will wait apartment and lack of depth.

Hither is a way to help y'all place clouds in perspective.

• Describe some clouds' bottoms scattered in a sheet,
• Transform the canvas based on perspective,
• Utilise the sketch as guide to draw clouds.

Rainy Sky

On cloudy/rainy heaven, the sky is mostly covered by the clouds thus makes the ambient darker. Have some muted colour equally the base by lowering the saturation and value of the image.

I suggest yous to edit the saturation and value of the objects and background in the epitome separately to get better result. Sometimes you lost some gradation and dissimilarity if you adjust all the layers together. Meanwhile, when you arrange the saturation and value separately, yous can have darker image just withal maintaining some gradation and contrast.

From the ground nosotros volition mostly see the bottom of the clouds with some lights leaking in between.

To paint this cloudy heaven, first I filled the sky with muted yellowish. I left some holes on information technology and then the sky will be peeking between the clouds.

Side by side, I made some selections for rows of clouds (in this example, 4 rows). I separated them in dissimilar layers. These selections are made so I can easily make some light leaks between clouds. And also, to dissever some clouds so we tin can still which bottom belong to which cloud.

Rendering clouds row past row based on previous selections.

In this part I painted the faraway clouds with in 1 layer considering we don't need likewise much particular on it.

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Starry Dark Sky and Moonlight

Fill up the canvas with unproblematic gradation of 2 dark colors.

Add scattered bright dots for stars. For this, I used spray brush under airbrush tool on Clip Studio Pigment.

Add some smaller dots of stars behind the bigger dots.

Add together some clouds. I wanted to make this a starry sky and then I didn't add many clouds here. Clouds are barely visible at night, then I chose colors that close to the sky's colour.

The steps can end here, but you lot can also use darker cloud to make the sky looks brighter.

If there is a brilliant moonlight, it is necessary to add some lighter color to the clouds.

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Dawn and Dusk Heaven

Dawn and dusk, what's the difference? Aside from the dominicus position, where information technology's located in the westward if dusk and the east if dawn, there'south actually no significant differences between how dawn and dusk wait in camera captured pictures.

Yet, I heard that our eyes condition result on how we capture the sky. When dawn came, our eyes are used to night surrounding, so the dawn sky looks brighter than information technology should be. Meanwhile, our eyes are tired in late afternoon (sunset) and are used to bright surrounding of daylight so the dusk sky appears darker than it should be. Merely like when we enter a room after existence outside under sunny day. The room will look really nighttime until our eyes are adjusting. Using this information, I usually apply some softer, more than welcoming colors for dawn, and sharper, more contrast colors for dusk. This manner nosotros can differentiate the sky at dawn and sunset just by seeing the images.

I'll testify you the steps of making dawn/dusk heaven. They utilize the same method then I'll just explain once. The remainder is just switching light source and color scheme.

I used a muted regal as the heaven color. It volition create a nice analogous colour scheme with red and yellow.

Two layers of gradations. The first layer is orange. The 2d layer is xanthous. Place the gradation based on where the sun is located.

I painted two layers of clouds with significant height difference for dawn/dusk sky. This will create a dainty depth created past the light source. The light will fall directly to the bottom of higher clouds while it creates back light event on lower clouds.

Return the lower clouds so they have more book.

No need to render the higher clouds too much because they are faraway. Some gradation will suffice.

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Tips

Always employ references! Avoid drawing from our memory. How the sky looks can change according to the level of sun and moon position, weather condition, height and location. The tutorial I show you to a higher place are simply a few selective heaven conditions out in that location.

– Ann Maulina

Ann Maulina is a comic artist from Indonesia. Her comics are Raruurien (www.raruurien.com) and Varunair. She also works as a freelance game concept artist at times. She holds a Bachelor'southward degree in Visual Communication Blueprint, which gives her a high advantage with fine art and blueprint projects. She enjoys creating fine art while exploring some dynamic and harmonic colors. You lot tin can find her at:

• Twitch
• Artstation
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• Patreon

Source: https://www.clipstudio.net/how-to-draw/archives/161327

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