Clothes and drapery

Hi ! I'm currently focusing on fabrics, folds and so on, I'll be glad to have honest feedback on few gestures that I found lovely imo.

Either way I'm about to start a course on drapery (Moderndayjames if you know him) and I hope to have a deeper understanding over time.


https://imgur.com/zWWd0H9

https://imgur.com/k5RPsBI

https://imgur.com/VJHTSL2



Thank you

Nice work on all three drapery studies, Creativity_Home. But here's two small requests: 1) How long did you take to sketch these out, Creativity_Home? 2) If you wanna learn more, do another drapery sketch in 30 seconds, flipped veritically, please?



Thanks for your post,



Polyvios Animations

Hi! Thanks for replying !

Do you have any suggestion to get better at it ? What could I do better ?



It varies between 90 sec up to 3-4 minutes. Btw this is a very small part of my actual work. I mostly do them as warm-ups :)

Yeah why not, seems fun, I'm going to do that now



Edit : here we go https://imgur.com/a/yuYmrER

You are brave! Drapery and fabric is some of the hardest stuff to get right.

I remember when I was working on this in college, every day when I came into the studio there would be a different kind of fabric crumbled up on a table, with a very strong light pointed at it from one direction. We'd then spend quite awhile, up to an hour, trying to render the fabric in charcoal. I think this would be a pretty easy setup to replicate at home, if you wanted to give it a go.

Thank you ! :) In fact you need to understand perspective, gesture, anatomy and your tools (lot of work but it gives freedom)

I got better at drapery now after my workshop with moderndayjames, here an exemple : https://imgur.com/a/pysGH9J



Of course I'll give it a shot, I've a personnal project ongoing involving 75 references of folds, drapery now that I understand its physics.

If I want to become a professional in the animation / video game industry I must be disciplined, above all when your guts tells it to be that way.