How to Draw Ruffles Filled with Repeating Pattern Swatches in Illustrator

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With a few simple tricks, this tutorial will show you how to add dimension to your ruffle sketches and add a pattern fill to your fashion illustration:
You will learn:
00:42 How to conceptualize drawing your fashion flat to fill it with a pattern swatch
01:40 Tricks to draw the ruffles with the Pencil Tool
03:04 How to make the edges of your ruffle come to a fine point
03:50 How to add shadows to ruffles
04:38 How to add a print to your fashion flat
05:06 Adjust the ruffle shadows to see the print through them using the opacity / transparency settings
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[@thegamingtailor]

Amo, tu trabajo

[@sachin8544]

Good one. Thank you Heidi

[@SewHeidi]

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[@kaamilahthomas3626]

can you please do a tutorial on how to illustrate the hem for ruffles.

[@queenofhearts786]

Have you created a video on creating a corset dress? I would love to learn how to draw a corset in Illustrator.

[@belenpaz8587]

Can you please do a tutorial on how to make a baby onesie flat and how to incorporate a pattern in one. I've made the flat but when trying to add a pattern on certain parts it doesn't look right. Help please! I've tried everything.

[@francescadentith4045]

hi when i try and do this its changing the shape of my original stroke instead of the fill stroke?

[@ceylonwinnews]

please do step by step Photoshop tutorials too,thank you!

[@lovelove5836]

how to draw, for example, a wedding dress, with a set of lace and different fabric which together create a beautiful pattern

[@JanetCaterina]

I wouldn't call that a cascading ruffle, that is a cascading jabot. Ruffles take me forever to draw, I would like to find a quicker way to get the details of a ruffle.