How to Draw Clothing and Folds

Clothing and folds are a challenge to learn, and honestly, they were a bit of a challenge to try to teach! I tried to get as many tricks and tips crammed into this video as I could. I do hope that they're helpful in making your clothing more realistic and easy to draw.
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Maybe a tutorial on how to draw black, shiny clothes like Cat Woman's costume? Always tricky to know how much should be black and how much should be reflecting light

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Latex?

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I am not a professional, but those costumes are thin and plastic. So when you draw them, make them look stiff with thicker wrinkle sections fitted to the body. Think about where your lightsource is, and look at the clothing like planes. Once you figure out which planes are facing the light, light em up! Then you can throw an airbrush of reflected light on both the lit side and the unlit side (reflected light) and erase where needed.

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whenever i draw latex, i just draw a few white lines on some of edges to simulate rim lighting, and scribble some random shapes on a few areas to represent the reflection of the environment, while bending some of them accordingly to imply the shape of either the cloth or what is underneath it (depending on how skin tight that thing is). honestly just look at references from other artists or illustrators. references help so much when you have no idea of what you're doing, and when you use them enough times for your stuff, it simply becomes muscle memory, and you can then draw it from scratch again and again with no worries. latex can be both fun and a little frustrating to draw at times lol

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That piece of advice about drawing the negative space rather than the folds has just made this whole process so much more intuitive for me. Thank you so much!

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Thanks David. But the shading of the folds to create that realistic look is where I got caught up 😥 I'll practice and learn how to render smooth shades especially using the negative space style so that it appears like it was done digitally just like you.🎨💫

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First of all I would like to thank you for doing this. I was so excited when I saw you on KZbin and you are one of my favorite artists and have watched and love all your videos. I am also a struggling artist and one of my problems are heads, mainly placement at the eyes nose and mouth at angles. Especially dynamic ones.

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Thanks! I'm covering that very soon.

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I knew it, first draw the figure and then on top the cloth. Like a cake and then the decoration. I had learned it, but there where fuzzy areas in my memory. Thank you Master Finch.

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Great tips! My Vikings will look more stylish now...^^

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I like how you phrased it, "interconnecting negative shapes". It sounds much plainer and clearer that when I try to explain chiaroscura. Thanks for the, very informative, demonstration.

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"Folds conform to the shadows" This is very helpful!

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This video was the first video that actrully helped me learn to draw, now 3 years later and I can draw them easily, though I don’t even draw much anymore

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So helpful! I have so much trouble with clothing lines, making it look realistic like that. Often I just draw these straight lines coming off of choke points, but it never looks right. This was really informative. I wish KZbin allowed us to post photos, I would post a couple of my drawings to show what I am talking about. Thanks is so much for this walkthrough. It helps a lot.

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Most pro artists say to not overdo the folds, but i always think about those cool comics-ctyle folds(and also in anime style) that just mesmerizing. i would say do as many and as detaild as you want, but ONLY if you already know how to do it and specifically going for that look

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I'd love to get some tips for the torso. Especially for drawing it in perspective

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If you want clothes to look finch style follow this. But keep in mind finch style is all incredibly jagged and that shirt is basically just another layer of skin on the guy. I’ve drawn with subconscious Finch influence for a long time. This teaches you that all clothes have to be razor sharp and dynamic.

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