Book description
From Renaissance fresco painters to contemporary graphic novel artists, the ability to draw clothed figures from one’s imagination has always been crucial to artists – and exceptionally difficult to attain. With over 220 illustrations, The Art of Drawing Folds: An Illustrator’s Guide to Drawing the Clothed Figure reveals the logic and patterns in folds, enabling the reader to more easily predict the behavior of cloth when creating folds in their own drawings and paintings.
Addressing folds in clothing systematically, the author provides a clear, concise approach to the analysis, classification and visualization of convincingly naturalistic folds. Starting with the nature of fabric and its geometry, this book methodically explores the reasons for fold behavior based on the construction of clothing and the shapes and actions of the human figure. An essential guide and reference for animators, illustrators, storyboard artists, comic-book artists, 3D modelers, sculptors, fashion designers and students, The Art of Drawing Folds simplifies one of the most complex and important aspects of drawing the clothed figure.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 An Overview of Folds and Materials
- 2 The Elements of Folds
- 3 Parallel Folds
- 4 Radial Folds
- 5 Interlocking Folds
- 6 Complex Folds
- 7 Folds at the Floor and Edges
- 8 Drawing the Figure
- 9 Clothing and Folds on the Figure
- 10 Folds in Hands and Gloves
- 11 Folds and Wrinkles on the Face
- 12 Light and Shade
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Art of Drawing Folds
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2017
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781351811583
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