do you know

[sox]

of any good tutorials on how to paint clouds/sky

i have a good handle on both drawing, as well as photoshop, however for some reason clouds always give nasty troubles. yet they look like they should be so easy to do.
im looking to create a really nice sunset type scene, does anyone know of some tutes on cloud drawing and the likes in ps?
(i tried to use the search function but it just confused the hell outa me)

[daveneale]

http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=36383

dunno how helpfull that will be, but there are a bunch more tutes on that site

[sox]

yeh thats not bad, im more looking for a cartoonish stile i suppose, with some really nice backlighting from the sun.

[sox]

ok ok i got it worked out, found a nice little thing to set me on my way on youtube. (i always forget about youtube for tutes, its so god damn good)

this is what i come up with, some things obviously need tweaking and tightening up but im pretty happy with it for a first attempt :)

crits and comments would be very much apreciated, particluarly anything i can do to make it better.
it is supposed to be from a position above the clouds, almost in the clouds in a hight up tree. and obviously sunset.

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8033/skycopy02lo5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[daveneale]

you may get more responce in the crit section but I think it looks pretty sweet, love the colours, all I'd suggest is mabe giving the tops of the clouds a more defined highlight to define the shape a little more, good work though