Sky is a very frequent scene in manga and the cloud expression will affect the sky layout.
In analog there are 2 ways to express a sky, one is pasting the same pattern of sky tone
and another is drawing by hand which is hard work.
But in digital, it’s a easy work with brushes.
This page shows how to draw a summer sky with a cumulonimbus cloud brush.
Learn basics of brush materials here
The making of summer sky drawing with brush materials
Here we will explain and follow the video procedure again in text.
Cumulonimbus cloud bush is a brush that can freely make your desired shape of the cloud
like the following strokes.
Draw the cloud while referring to the photo of a cumulonimbus cloud.
The realistic expression will increase with the reference of the picture.
Make shape more and more like painting with a brush.
Now create a new layer and add shadows.
In case of monochrome,use a gradation layer to increase the contrast.
Sharpen the entire shadow with white or transparent color.
Check the pen pressure of the brush density and blend in the color.
Adjust the color and density of the shadow,
add cloud with the lower density at the back, and it is completed.
If you use a cloud brush like this, you can draw complicated clouds quickly.
This brush is a particle shape brush which corresponding to monochrome.
It is perfect for who think or feel that the color cloud brush and sky photograph tone
it doesn’t match monochrome analog sense.