[casefr]

hello!
here are some quick paintings I've done to study cloud,
I tried to look for some volume in it but it looks like I didn't get it, if anyone could help me to get clouds corrects, please do it.
comments and critiques are welcome (off course...)


and the second one :

[faB]

These are good, they just have a painterly feel to it. I think the whites are usually very bright on clouds, given the light comes from above them,.. if you take the airplane on a cloud yday its amazing how much brighter it is once you fly above em..
So I think if you find the correct value first of all, using some reference, it will look much more lifelike, if that's what you're after..

[casefr]

well, in fact, I did use some ref to do this, but at least, I'm not a really good guy with values :/ any suggestion on how to get used with values? exercices or stuff??
thanks,
CasE!

[faB]

To the best of my current knowledge, I think you should try to work first with only 3 values, and make sure you get those right : the darkest, middle and brightest tones in the clouds. Typically there are also called shadows, midlle tones & highlights.

In fact if you stop there you should have already a very lifelike scene, it will look like a 'impressionist' painting but in black and white I suppose.

A good exercise is to choose any black and white photo and copy it, even though the exercise is about values .. be careful about proportions : when you do paint the shadow or highlight shapes, they really are shapes that you hape to reproduce with the correct proportions, or the volume is rendered wrong.

Check out Johannes Itten 'Art of Color' its great to understand value & contrasts in colors, there is a abbreviated version of the book, which is quite cheap.

PS: with all that said you could post the photo reference you used, for all I know you might have painted them exactly like they are on the photo ? :P

[casefr]

well thanks fab!
I already own the iten book "l'art de la couleur" =)
here is the picture I used (I tweaked the color =)):