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[Anonymous No.3199239]

What book to read for learning to draw clothing (folds, drapery etc.)

[Anonymous No.3199317]

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[Anonymous No.3199320]

>>3199239
Drapery and clothing is best practiced from life. It's easy to learn tricks that create the illusion of fabric, but it's not like landscapes and faces where you can just wing it. There are very particular rules about the way light hits fabric depending on its thickness or transparency or material. You'll have to just get a sketchbook and figure it out for yourself. It's not something you can read about and just understand, you need to have a moment of understanding from drawing it from life.

[Anonymous No.3199324]

>>3199320
Especially because fabric can't be imagined the same way a face or landscape can. You can make an alien landscape or monsters face and it can look like anything, but fabric never changes. It's part of what Ingres did with his work. He would make the faces very stylized, but because the fabric and drapery looked so realistic you assumed the face was correct, even if it was heavily idealized. Go to Walmart and get a sheet of fabric for cheap then draw it a lot

[Anonymous No.3199327]

>>3199324
Thank you!

[Anonymous No.3199337]

>>3199239
In addition to what the other anon said I would also watch the Vipplu video on drawing drappery.

[Anonymous No.3199354]

>>3199337
Thank you! I have it downloaded and will watch it.

[Anonymous No.3199403]

>>3199337
Vilppu's vid helped me out a lot with just giving me some language and classification with the 6 types of folds. It gave me a base to think from for construction.

[Anonymous No.3201108]

>>3199354
where did you find it, might i ask?

[Anonymous No.3201159]

>>3199239

[Anonymous No.3201201]

>>3201108
oh in what i think is the main artbook mega (look at the artbook thread), there's this one folder that has references for drapery.