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Fabric creases

Fabric creases

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Fabric creases

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- [Instructor] Drawing believable costumes or fabric can look like a puzzle. The finished drawing can seem to be a maze of lines but beneath this surface complexity, there's often a very straight forward process. So here it is. We'll start with a curved line and I'm going to draw it here in red just to give you an example. From this line, you can extend or extrude vertical lines or diagonal lines. Note that they don't all have to be parallel. On similar angles this is going to be a varied shape and then we close off our shape to create this long wavy ribbon. So this is a great way to design flags, big long pieces of drapery, and so on. So we use the same process of building complex costumes, dresses, coats, this kind of thing, from the simple geometric forms. In the figure on the left, the ballerina dress is constructed from a figure-8 or an O-shaped loop and you can see that very lightly sketched in in red to follow that contour there. In the middle, you can see the addition of waves…

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