From the course: Animating in 2D: Hair and Clothing
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Fabric creases
- [Instructor] Drawing believable costumes or fabric can look like a puzzle. The finished drawing can seem to be a maze of lines, but beneath this surface complexity there's often a very straightforward process. So here it is. We'll start with a curved line and I'm going to draw it in red just to give you an example. Now from this line you can extend or extrude vertical lines or diagonal lines. Note that they don't all have to be parallel. And some are at an angle, so this is going to be a varied shape. And then we close off our shape to create this long, wavy ribbon. So this is a great way to design flags, big, long pieces of drapery, and so on. So we use the same process of building complex costume, dresses, coats, this kind of thing from these simple geometry forms. In the figure on the left the ballerina dress is constructed from a figure eight or an O shape loop. And you can see that very lightly sketched in in red. Follow that contour there. In the middle you can see the…
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