A sky full of clouds

The final result from my render and edit:

some making of: (later on i will update this section with a video of the making of)

1-took a reference of i cloudy sky i liked from pinterest :

2-dividing visually the clouds in the pic in big portions in base of the space and the volume they occupy in the frame: 

3- using the new cloud nodes in Houdini 20 to make a cloud sistem that could be the more realistic as possible in terms of volume and density (the "houdini hive" video about the new houdini tools helped me a lot in making this and understanding the overall uses of the nodes)

4- Making a few clusters of clouds and trying the render settings before doing it on a larger scale: (first try)

5- Figuring out what was wrong in render settings and fixing it and twicking some the material shader for the clouds

6- layouting all the clouds respecting the reference

8-more renders, more trying, more twicking settings/lights/soft shadowing/volumes/density/shader

9-Final result (raw) after last render:

10- Editing immage in Davinci Resolve(color correction, noise reduction, bluring the parts blured in the ref to respect it more and give the eye some rest places) 

11-The final result:

The comparison: