Landscape Drawing Tutorial — Part Five — “Fluffy clouds in the sky”

What´s up with those clouds? Where are they coming from?

How are they positioned if it´s not from that center grid that is used for the sky? And why not?

Is there something wrong with that grid?

Not really. In fact, when you experience creating landscapes, imaginary grids like this can help you position some of the horizontal aspects of elements in the sky, like these clouds here.

They are a bit tilted, but if their base followed the horizontal lines on this grid, the effect would be okay, too. In this case, most of the effect is on the variation in the size of the shapes and their location.

This grid could also help position details in the actual clouds, like shadows or bright areas, but it´s not time to go into this sort of detail yet, so for the moment, let’s just pretend this is an entirely wrong grid to place clouds on this pic.