


Use the Smudge Tool, also using a textured brush, to blend, swirl, and move things around. ABR Adobe Brush I used to make this.Īfter getting the blocking in for the shape and shades. I started with a dark tone and worked my way towards light, similar to the samples you mentioned.

So using a mixture of a textured brush I made this first by painting with the textured brush and building up my tones. After that it's a mixture of texture brushes, or smudging, throughout all the samples I've seen on DeviantArt. A shadow portion, a strong highlight portion and a middle tone blending between the two. It's painterly, and usually involves 3 main areas of tone. What makes the clouds so great is the approach. If you look at this sample of his work, there are some clear indicators that they are using a mixture of texture brushes, and also the smudge tool in PS to flick some little wisps off the edges of the clouds.
