From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing clothes and flowing materials

Drawing clothes and flowing materials

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Drawing clothes and flowing materials

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- So now a quick note about clothing. And if you look at the guy on the right who's holding out his hand and pointing, the first thing to notice. Look at that sleeve and see how it's hanging. It's good to have an idea about just what the material is made out of. And I don't expect a person to know precisely which textile an object is, but it would be good to know if those jeans are made of denim or silk, for example. They're going to behave and look totally differently. So I imagine these as a pair of jeans. And I imagine that shirt as being, maybe not silk, but still a pretty soft, very gentle fabric. And that's why it hangs the way it does. If it was even lighter, it might even hang straighter than that. So, we can see, also, if we switch off this layer, you'll see that beneath this in red line, his physical anatomy. And you can't just go drawing clothing without having some idea about what's underneath it. So, at the very least, have an outline sketch of the construction of the…

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