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Often, children who do not yet know how to draw what they want on paper ask their parents to do it. What to do if a child asks to draw a thunderstorm? First of all, he wants to see lightning and menacing heavy clouds on a paper sheet. This article will teach you how to draw lightning, clouds, thunderstorms in stages with a pencil.
Draw a cloud with a simple pencil
First, prepare your workspace. Take a blank sheet of paper and a simple pencil (preferably sharpened).
In the middle of the sheet, outline the outline of the oval - this is the future thundercloud. If you can't draw an oval on the go yourself, do it this way. Divide the sheet in half with a vertical and horizontal line, you get a cross. Now round this shape, an oval will come out. Now, on the borders of the silhouette, we carefully depict the edges of the clouds. They should resemble a lamb. Keep the distance between the roundness of the cloud about one centimeter. You will have a voluminous thundercloud.
How to draw a lightning bolt?
Now that the cloud is ready, it's time to drawlightning coming out of it. This is easy to do - from the bottom of the cloud, put a few broken lines on the paper (for sure everyone knows what lightning looks like). Now, next to each of the lines, draw along a parallel line, so that their ends converge at the bottom. You will have an excellent lightning that pleases the child. Now it's time to complete the drawing - decorate the cloud. This can be done using light wavy and semicircular lines inside the cloud. Now you and your child know how to draw a lightning bolt with a pencil. If desired, add colors to the drawing or shade it darker with a simple pencil.
Such lightning and a cloud can become both a separate pattern and an element of an interesting landscape.
How to draw a lightning on a computer?
Many people have tried to capture lightning in a frame, but it is not very easy to do it. Photos of thunderstorms and lightning look mysterious, bewitching and very beautiful. You can draw a lightning using the most common "Photoshop". How to do it?
- First you need to find a photo for the base. The sky on it should be gloomy, gray, it’s good if heavy clouds are present. Open the photo through the Photoshop editor.
- Create a new layer.
- Open "Tools". Select the Rectangular Region button. Use this tool to select a wide area on a new layer.
- Fill this area with a gradient. Do this carefully, as pouring is an important step in the work. How you make the fill with a gradient depends on the appearancefuture lightning.
- In the "Filter" menu, find the "Rendering" submenu. There, click on the button with the name "Clouds with overlay".
- Then in the "Images" - "Correction" menu, click the "Invert" button. After completing this action, you will receive a white lightning.
- Move the flags that appear as you watch the lightning change.
Continue drawing lightning in the editor
Lightning in the sky, drawn with the editor, looks just like the real thing. We continue to learn how to draw her.
- Enter the "Images" menu again, press the "Color background" button. Then click the Toning button. Try different color variations that suit you.
- Hold down the Ctrl + T keys on your keyboard and reduce the lightning to the desired size while holding down the Shift key. This will keep the proportions.
- Change the mode to Light Swap.
- Find the Dodge tool. With it, you need to illuminate the place where the lightning goes. Point the tool at the desired location and move the mouse over it. Do not release the mouse button.
Now you know how to draw lightning with a simple pencil on paper, and also learned how to depict a thunderstorm using a computer editor. It is very interesting for both children and adults.
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