Start Drawing CLOTHING FOLDS Like This!

This is the ultimate artist's guide to drawing clothing folds on any fabric! Whether you're illustrating thick, thin, or stiff materials -- follow along with these tips to bring your outfits to life! 🤓 In this short art tutorial, instructor Jessie goes over where to draw creases, what types of shapes to use for different fabrics, as well as other factors to consider when drawing realistic clothing. 👚

🕓 Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:32 - Bunching areas in clothes
2:12 - Gathering areas in clothes
2:50 - Tension areas in clothes
4:08 - Types of clothing fold shapes
4:38 - Less is more
5:24 - Drawing folds in thick fabrics
6:28 - Drawing folds in stiff fabrics
8:25 - Drawing folds in thin fabrics
9:21 - Tips to keep in mind
10:33 - Drawing wet fabrics / external factors

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[pikaxuls]

Lately I've been struggling with my art and I didn't know how to improve, these videos have been helping so much!! It's insane that you're doing this for free <3 also, amazing art!!

[dracoleo]

out of all my years of making art, ive never heard the tips youve gave from anyone else on this platform. they usally make points about where the clothing folds would bunch up but not why they would bunch up in a certain area. you go over types of material, material thickness, main areas where folds takes place, "secondary(?)" areas where folds would take place, and more like the look of what an artist might wanna go for (cartoony or semi-realistic). this is by far the most helpful clothing folds tutorial ive ever watched, thank u for ur service.

[Purporle]

Im too impatient to wait for this, I NEED TO LEARN DRAWING FABRIC

[candidofficialart]

i usually just slap on some triangle shadows on multiply and call it a day so this is extremely helpful

[jelly_jynx]

I've been searching for a good fold tutorial for forever now. Most I find are just "where there is tension there are folds". You explained it so well tysm

[april_artifex]

YESSS
I've always struggled with folds and you seem to be able to do a good nice looking job.

[SnowFox-gvrn]

Thank you so much for making this! I’ve watched several videos on how to draw clothes and clothing folds, and they would explain how different fabrics have different folds, but they didn’t explain the different types of folds like the loops vs the triangles

I also definitely need to use references more often (not just for clothes, I need to use them more in general), so I’ll be sure to do that

[ayalamelanie]

In stage-costume design class, my prof gave us a little quote for remembering where buttons went "women are always right and men are left over", so to button up women's clothes, the right side with the holes goes over the left side with the buttons, and for men, they'll have the left side of the clothes with the holes go over the buttons on the right.

That prof taught me a bunch of other stuff too, but this is what always comes into my head whenever I remember him XD It's helped me a lot when drawing jackets cause I never noticed the buttons were different before.

[crypticcorgi]

I feel like I kinda got the feel of this. But I now feel like I got a way better grasp of it now that it was explained to me. Especially with the distinction between thick and stiffer fabrics. This will help me feel way less intimidating when trying to make fabric wrinkled. C:

[Xyrieliiii]

I always struggle so badly with clothing folds and I usually just put them wherever, this video is gonna be extremely helpful for my next big project! Thank you for making this art education accessible for everyone, it makes it so much easier to improve as a beginner artist :D

[chariotsx]

I’d love to see a *Part 2* for this video that focuses on the ‘External Factors’ that affect clothing 9:59 . I want to learn more about how to make clothing look dynamic for action scenes where the character is moving around, as well as when the weather is windy and this adds movement to the clothing.

[sepiasmith]

the distinction between drawing folds in the lineart vs showing them with color is HUGE. it's something I've noticed recently and it's great to see it confirmed here.

I don't fully understand the "loops" but I will keep looking at refs

[RadishTheFool]

You are so GOOD at doing everything in just ten minutes: list all the rules, provide examples, show how it's drawn, explain why, give analogies if it's not quite intuitive, and then you even sprinkle in some fun jokes and pleasant visuals.

You're amazing, seriously. I love most art youtubers for their passion and personality and talent for explaining art verbally.

But I don't think I've ever had anything art-related explained so extremely thoroughly in such a short amount of time. Wow.

Thank you so much for sharing your talent and experience and effort with us, in your uniquely well-thought-out way.

[DG_Official]

I like drawing, but hadn't actually drew a full character yet. This video really helped when i actually made my first full body character. Thank you for the tutorial, it really helped me, and i hope you continue making tutorials like these.

[Mochii]

THANK YOU SO MUCH before I saw this video I was ALWAYS struggling with drawing fabric, now I can do it without a problem! xx

[Maki-em]

She is actually right, all artists use reference pics in a number of different ways depending on their practice

[KayoNPC_]

Thankyou, I've been needing this

[koiturnbull]

Seriously, I’ve drawn clothing for years and this was the easiest and most instructive tutorial on clothing I’ve ever seen. Thanks for the lessons!!

[sophiesmidnightsquad]

36 minutes ago thank you I’m working on a s etch book of outfits this was very helpful hope everyone has a good day

[CherokeeFlutist]

You know, I've struggled for so long with drawing clothing.

You're an absolute lifesaver. Very informative and I was amazed but how easy you make it look. I always had a feeling it was more simple than I thought