I would like to know the techniques in drawing and designing clothes, any tips, tutorials, exercises, and related knowledge would be great. Thanks.
About myself: I am currently practicing anime style drawing. I am still learning human body anatomy, so there is a lot of informations about human body anatomy in CGTalk forum and I found a few related books on it in the library, just that when it comes to cloths, I couldn’t find much informations that teach me how to draw them. I couldn’t draw the folds well and when coming to design cloths for my character, I am lacking idea. I hope the professionals here is able to guide me a bit, thanks
There isn’t any specific techniques for clothes design. Unless your going to a designer school, but thats more about measurements and materials. Everyone has their own style. Personally my style is very similar to Tetsuya Nomura’s. If you want your clothes to stand out you have to put things on it that look good, but are’nt exactly nessecary. Thats why its called a style.
Hogarth has a book dealing directly with depicting folds/wrinkles:
Hogarth’s style tends to be overwhelming, so learn his principles, but not the way he draws.
The most important thing about folds/wrinkles in clothing is to understand the stress points. Things the protrude, compress, bend…etc will cause stress points, and that’s when folds/wrinkles happen. Study those stress points in real life and in photos, and you’ll understand why folds/wrinkles flow in the direction they do. The thickness/weight of the fabric will also affect how folds/wrinkles appear.
For fashion design, unless you want to spend the money to attend fashion design school, it’s best to learn by simply observation, analyzation, and then take them and throw them into that big blender in your head–whatever spits out will be influenced by your personal preferences–and that leads to your own design style. Go to the fashion/art section of your local bookstore (preferable a big chain store like Borders or Barns and Noble) and flip through some good ones that cover different time periods, different cultures, big names in the fashion industry (Armani, CK, Prada, Gucci, Versace, Christian Dior…etc), and you’ll get a good overview of the history of fashion. Buy a few of those books for reference. Subscribe to some of the fashion news websites/newsletters, and you’ll be up to date with the current trends in fashion. Pay attention to seasonal releases from the big designers to see what they’re up to. Subscribe a few of the fashion magazines to stay up to date as well. Pay attention to people around you–people from different age groups, social status, social groups, uniforms, business/casual wear, trendy wear, urban wear…etc.
All of that will become your reference/influences. Then the rest is up to your own personal taste. That is pretty much how I learned.
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