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[tchangchang]

The issue i see with the drapery is omitting to put the bar to show why the fabric was being like that.By ommiting the bar you remove the indication of why there is tention in the fabric and why it can support it own weight.Now it look like you have wet the fabric and froze it outside and remove the bar afterward.Sometime the devil is in the detail.

Thanks darktiste, you're totally right of course, I noticed this half way throught the drawing and then thought it might be too late to fix this, but actually it wouldn't have been too hard to add it since its just a black bar. When I think about it that was the whole reason I put the cloth on the bar in the first place! When I just clumped it on the table my drawing utterly failed (that was one of the fail attempts I posted above).

I think it's good that you are trying to become more organized in your studies, even posting your progress here every day. However, these subjects, such as how fabric works, can be quite hard to learn without putting a lot of thought into your studying.

I suggest that you try to read up on the subject. For example, Burne Hogarth has a great book called "dynamic wrinkles and drapery" that you can study from. Read it, then try to identify the different folds from life and take your time to really absorb the knowledge. In my own experience, this helped a lot more than trying to just randomly drawing it.

The same mindset and method of course applies to all subjects! Read about it, study it, and then apply it to your studies and personal work to better understand and solidify it.

Also, remember to always take a lot of notes and apply your studies to imaginative/personal work!

Good luck! Keep up the good work and keep posting! :)

Hey Zorrentos, thank you very much! Also you read my mind! After the first couple attempts I was so frustrated and just googled "how to draw drapery" and saw this article https://www.easydrawingtips.com/how-to-d...-tutorial/. Its pretty basic but just the advice to shade around the form like it was a cylinder helped me a ton (I heard this before many times on youtube but had forgot it). I have read from Hogarth's book a few years ago but I found it puzzling when it talked about "torque" lines and so on. I remember the drawings were quite nice though (nice and clear to learn from) so maybe I should go back and look at it again. Yeah, I agree its good to have a purpose for studies, I'll try and think of character where drapery would be needed.

I agree with Zorrentos! However I'd suggest the book "Pen and Ink" by Alphonso Dunn. It's an amazing ressource to get a well thoughtout and fast introduction to the basics of drawing and explains all the important fundamental concepts in an easy, lightweight way. It also helps to have an easier transition from studies to working from imagination. :)

Keep up with the hard work! I wish you the best of luck for your further path! :)

Hi Kaiko, nice to meet you, and thanks for the comment! I've seen Alphonso Dunn's videos before and remember that his ballpoint pen stuff is pretty awesome. That's actually my favority medium kind of out of necessity since that's all I could work with when I was at work. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll try and take a look at his book.

Thank you all very much for the comments! Its super motivating since this is the first time I have tried to share my stuff online.

Some more figure/portrait studies. I tried to exercise my imagintative skils a bit by trying to stylize/exaggerate some of them, both the portrait and figures:








Few more ref studies for warrior girl:




And the roughs of the character. They're pretty rough, lot of broken anatomy and draw over of details that I couldn't make up my mind on:





One final character drawing, let me know what you guys think I'm open to any crits so feel free to tear it apart. I personally think I should have spent a bit more time on the line weight, maybe I'll do this tomorrow:




I might finalize the others in the next few days.

Btw do any of you know of Watts Atelier online and if this is a good resource for learning drawing online? Its quite pricey at $99 per month but he really seems like he knows what he's doing and his videos are really in depth for traditional art (I had tried it before for a month but didn't make too much progress because of real life stuff).