The Art of Drawing Folds: An Illustrator's Guide to Drawing the Clothed Figure

2017 | Art, Photography & Fashion

From Renaissance fresco painters to contemporary comic book artists, the ability to draw clothed figures from one's imagination has always been crucial to artists - and exceptionally difficult to attain. With over 220 illustrations, The Art of Drawing Folds: An Illustrator's Guide to Drawing the Clothed Figure reveals the patterns in clothing folds, enabling the reader to more easily predict the behavior of cloth when creating folds in their own drawings and paintings. Addressing folds in clothing systematically, the author provides a clear, concise approach to the analysis, classification and visualization of convincingly natural folds. Using the geometry determined by the angles of limbs and the construction of clothing, this book examines the reasons for fold behavior based on movement of the figure and clothing construction. An essential guide and reference for animators, illustrators, storyboard artists, comic-book artists, 3D modelers, sculptors, fashion designers and students, The Art of Drawing Folds simplifies one of the most complicated and important aspects of drawing clothing.

Kelly Brine (Author)