These drawings were made on July 18 and 19 of this year (some of my most recent ones). I became frustrated with my inability to draw nice-looking clothing folds, so I decided to do something I don’t do enough of: a study.
I decided to start with the most basic type of clothing that I draw a lot: t-shirts. I gathered a bunch of different photos from Google Images of people wearing tees where I could clearly see the folds and wrinkles they were creating.
I observed the similarities between all the pictures, like where the folds usually form and what shapes they tend to have, then tried to draw t-shirts following those patterns.
Before looking at these real life references, I watched a “how to draw clothes” tutorial on Youtube (this one I really liked, by Neko Rina)! I’ve watched many tutorials about this throughout the years, but even the most basic of things can slip from your mind sometimes, so it’s important to review them every so often (specially when you start getting frustrated with your drawings and you don’t know what you’re doing wrong).
Below are some examples of bad clothing folds I had been drawing (and will continue to draw until I’ve finished my studies… and probably even after that as well):
Lots of mistakes that I’ve repeated lots of times, simply because I felt like I already knew how to draw these things and didn’t want to look up reference.
This is a new page I’ve started to study hoodies. The drawing on the right is from July 21 and the one on the left is from July 31 (just yesterday!).
I hope these studies will help me absorb more information on how to draw folds and will make my drawings look better!
P.S.: These aren’t meant to be guides or tutorials, I only wrote down those notes for myself to understand.
Unrelated: my cellphone recognizing the faces in my drawings as real human faces feels like a huge compliment, lmao
