How To Draw Curtain Folds
How to draw folds clothes and drapery a beginner s guide to drawing folds and clothes including the major types of folds and the full clothed figure.
How to draw curtain folds. From womb to tomb. To help this tutorial provides an explanation of how folds are likely to form based on the compression and or tension applied to the fabric. A semblance to the triangular seems to be the most frequent form that folds.
The curved line represents the folds in the curtain. Draw tiny folds around the collar without pushing too hard with the pencil. Below are a few examples using my trusty green curtain of how fabric folds and the different shapes it makes and where the light falls in normal lighting.
Mark at least one fold from the shoulder and notice how the button is a pressure point if there wasn t a button the top would look very different. How to draw fabric after a drawing by leonardo da vinci. If you re drawing someone sitting down draw a greater number of angles to express the sense of direction.
Draw a vertical line down from the left tab and right tab connecting at the bottom. Take in a simply draped piece of material. Repeat steps 2 through 4 on the right side of the curtain rod to draw the right panel.
Even in a curtain with long horizontal ridges and furrows there will be a tendency to the triangular in that the defining lines converge to points of attachment and slightly flare out at the lower border of the curtain. Cloth folds can be fairly challenging to draw due to their seemingly random shapes. Make the locks more round and dissolved when the turns are loose.
Learn a simple way to draw fabric folds with a pencil in this step by step narrated drawing based on a famous drawing by leonardo da vinci. Diaper folds are a result of sagging in a material between two support points.
