Drawing Clothes? LEAVE OUT These Folds

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Once you understand the folds you're seeing (see our first tutorial on clothing for that - link above) you can start to draw the folds. There is a crucial skill you need here: to simplify the folds in a meaningful way.

You'll want to remove a lot of the folds you see, and make the ones you do include clearer. In this tutorial, I've given a set of tips to help you do that.

0:00 Where to start
3:00 Initial sketch
4:50 Structure of the clothes
7:00 Big overlaps
10:15 Ripples vs Foldovers
13:30 Reducing lines
15:35 Example 2
19:40 3 ways to practise