How to Draw Clouds

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Learn How to Draw Clouds: Easy Step-by-Step Drawing Tutorial for Kids and Beginners.

The sky is the background of every landscape. Usually you can replace it with a white background, directing attention to more important elements of the picture. However, sometimes clouds or sun can make a scene more attractive and interesting.

In this tutorial I will show you how to draw these "background elements": a cloud, a sunny sky, and a starry sky.

What You Will Need

Some sheets of paper

Hard pencil (HB)

Medium soft pencil (2B)

Soft pencil (5B or lower)

Cotton swab/blending stump

Eraser

White gel pen (only for the starry sky)

Clouds are made of billions and billions of tiny water droplets suspended in the earth's atmosphere. There are many different types of clouds. Stratus clouds are long, low lying clouds. Cirrus clouds are found high in the sky and are often wispy in appearance. Cumulonimbus are recognizable as storm clouds; they can stack on top of one another and become very tall. The most commonly drawn cloud type, and the one used in this tutorial, is the fluffy cloud known as a cumulus cloud.