okay now i'm gonna paint a stormy ocean scene and i want it to look epic with a dark stormy sky and a giant wave crashing here so i'm going to start by sketching it out and the white water is going to be up on top of this but not too much because you know waves just keep on traveling and traveling out in the deep sea they're not breaking on a on a shallow shoreline you know so so this is going to be just this wall of water let's put a wave this is kind of coming up in here and we have another wave right there that'll be kind of cool the whole picture is just tilting remember how i have my smile shapes at the base of the wave where it swoops out so i can kind of plan that shape that i showed you in the earlier lessons now i want to have the effect of waves upon waves so this will be kind of one mound of waves it all just drops off back there the way i'm going to make that look is by putting waves directly behind boom a sudden change where there's a layer behind a layer but see what's cool is that that is going to give a reference point to how huge this guy is over here because even though these are hills made of waves they're just little compared to this big wall i'm going to get my dark blue and i'm going to start putting it on in different areas i'm not going to spread it out i'm just going to put it on so that i know it's enough to cover this whole area i want more of the light color near the bottom here typically the horizon is where more of the light color of the sky is not always so what i'm going to do is i'm going to try to blend the dark color upward in the light color downward than the most part so whenever i come to a dark patch i'm not going to drag it down real far i'm going to make it go upward like this wherever i come to a light patch i'm going to pull that downward see so i follow this pattern this dark one go upward upward so remember i want this brightest part of this wave to be up here at the top the front top there and this is where it will be real dark down here i just want to look for pretty consistent transition of the lighter to the darker as it gets down in this valley it's okay if there's patches of light that's actually going to look good having lighter splotches but overall has kind of a uniform transition there you know it's fun restricting yourself to a large brush when you paint a picture because it makes you get stuff done you settle for what you're able to do on details and then progress is the fun part see this is a real soft edge where i just blur it all together but i still want it to look rounded so i just tried to do kind of a gradual change from the dark to light along a curved area this one's smaller and that's what i want it to look like this is a little mound of water curving back over the edge there if i was doing real fine detail i know what the shapes are of the waves and because of that i feel out my comfort level with how much to distort that you know you can see that i'm not i'm not connecting these all just like i did in the earlier pictures but i'm keeping an eye on it whether or not it still gives the impression of that pattern so still the knowledge of that pattern is helping me along my way this is a giant wave this is all just a big shadow it's going to have reflection on it so it's not going to be so dark on the finished picture but i'm not going to have that green light color coming through it not here these are distant and these are going to be real little so maybe i'll just kind of throw it together real quick and see how it turns out we need to put a you know some distortion in there just barely darker than the rest of this wait here we go just the right darkness here so it just barely looks like a shadow of a big big dragon in this wave it's yep i'm gonna put a little bit of highlight on him too he's gonna just disappear for the most part i don't know what that thing would be but it's pretty fun to just have a big beast in the waves okay now i'll start putting these little tiny reflection waves in here i want to keep them small because i want the waves to look real big so within every dark area i'll do a lot of different a lot of little little wave shapes you know and i think holding the brush like this instead of doing just a bunch of these can make a lot of a lot of interesting shapes with the combinations of them stuck together you know we'll see we'll see what the difference is this is a good spot for a bright area it's kind of fun using that dry brush like that sea waves you just have every angle on every wave and because of that anything bright in the sky can be reflecting off every single area in the water the second i feel like i'm on the edge of a wave then i remember that pattern that it needs to have the reflection brightens as it approaches those high points you can really throw off the perspective of this shape by making the overall angle of these not match see so as i do them i'm going to travel in curves with the wave just to make sure i stay with that overall angle you know the wave breaks it crashes it plunges down in the water and then behind that wave is where you see it the wave comes through like if this big wave passed then you look behind it and then all that foam that it pushed down into the water starts rising up behind it and all of the air bubbles come up and push that foam apart and then what's left are those strands in between all of those round kind of patterns where the water current rising up is pushing the foam apart extend the corners out give a little bit of a squiggle to them so that it creates concaved sides there we go that's the kind of shapes i'm looking for it's like stretching a piece of gum till it breaks see when you see me coming back over areas that i've already done not fixing anything i'm just gradually building it up to the amount you know i always like to start with with a little bit look at it and see if it it makes me imagine anything further you know i just run with my imagination water changes the direction of light when it transitions so if this light comes through this back side of this wave it's gonna get sent downward and then exiting the way boom it's gonna get sent back dude this is lightning this needs more of that this needs to be like lit up here with this right this whole area is glowing this is really cool see this white water here has just got such a glow on it light boy this monster is getting zapped it's okay because he likes it you