Post by Amelius on Jul 14, 2005 14:28:33 GMT -5
Well, I'm not sure how well I can describe this area, since I still feel I need work on it myself. I'd say the best approach to drawing clothes is to make reference to clothing ads, and watch where the material rests and folds on the body. The shoulders are what hold up a shirt of course, so the tops of those should be generally wrinkle-free. Think mostly rounded lines, depending on where gravity pulls the cloth down. From the shoulders the cloth is pulled in a downward triangle. as the shirt gets near the belly area, depending on body/shirt size and gender, it usually bunches up with a few curved lines and incomplete loops around the waistline area of the shirt. for th emost part, the shirt will be less wrinkled at the top than at the bottom. for a female character with bosoms of course the shirt's wrinkles will be lower as the shirt is also being supported in part by this, so there may be more downward lines from that instead of from the armpits, depending on shirt looseness/tightness. if the shirt is rather tight-fitting then there will only be a fold or two at the bottom and some horizontal stretch lines across the tip of the chest and below the chest area.
In muscular characters I tend to let the shirt stretch a bit over the pectorials but add a few wrinkles over the abdominal muscles so it doesn't look like they are wearing a spandex shirt.
remember when drawing folds that just random lines won't cut it, you need to follow the flow of the material so it doesn't look like a shirt with simple lines on it. When cloth folds, it sometimes forms a bit of "tube" shape, to think of it in those terms when shading folds, the outside of a tub to the inside (where the cloth folds in of course) it helps best to add shade where the clothes fold and where the shadow will actuall fall, and highlights along the tops of folds also help bring it out.
As for pants, I generally follow the same concept, the folds are most prominent where they bunch over the feet.
In muscular characters I tend to let the shirt stretch a bit over the pectorials but add a few wrinkles over the abdominal muscles so it doesn't look like they are wearing a spandex shirt.
remember when drawing folds that just random lines won't cut it, you need to follow the flow of the material so it doesn't look like a shirt with simple lines on it. When cloth folds, it sometimes forms a bit of "tube" shape, to think of it in those terms when shading folds, the outside of a tub to the inside (where the cloth folds in of course) it helps best to add shade where the clothes fold and where the shadow will actuall fall, and highlights along the tops of folds also help bring it out.
As for pants, I generally follow the same concept, the folds are most prominent where they bunch over the feet.