Hand drawing creases lessons

[Miss Smiles 105]

Do anyone find crease drawing is one of the hardest work? I agree, if draw someone wearing historical tunic it is one of the hardest. Drawing costumes are completely nightmare if to draw the character travel back in time wearing it. Imagine the person sitting down and suddenly a lot of creases kill your muse to draw the person. But why is that? The body is like a sea bed which scrunched up and the amount of creases mounting up, drawing them is predictably difficult.

The secret of success drawing creases: imagine our body is like sea bed responding to the waves. And, which is true!!!

To start off drawing creases, you must seriously know human anatomy and had drawn flat costume your character is about to wear.

Drawing wrinkles is adding the volume, make the clothes a bit more realistic.

Drawing folds is representing thickness of layer when the part of anatomy was in pose.

Drawing creases is like drawing a wave of pinched clothes as if they are tight or loose to our body built.

Most commonly loose clothes often have creases below the elbow, waves of creases representing the spaces between cloth and skin, these creases create a wave down reinforce the volume. And many more I will cover below.

Drawing creases is like we once study geometry again. If a small child wear adult's clothes, the creases are rounded shaped form because the anatomy is less angular. And gravity take place, there are many creases.

The most common creases we often see on anatomy is often located pivot of bones, you bound to see alot of creases at elbow, waist, neck, below the butt, at the bend of the back, and knees. Those are where creases can be found because the part is where we often bend around. Those pivot are what creases respond to. Those are the rules of drawing creases.

Girl's jeans has more wrinkles than boy's, because boy's anatomy is angular.

Science about gravity is one of the most important when drawing creases, they are the direction where creases are headed to. When put on the belt the short creases mostly find at waist and lesser than chest. On the chest is wrinkles.

Creases below the elbows: the more the clothes are loosen, more creases show up below the elbows because the human is posing. And budges can be seen depending how loose is the cloth, mostly can find diagonally down from top of the elbows. Lastly, imagine the fold is a rock, the second last layer has many creases near the fold.

So take note how your character pose. If the characters has pull up the sleeve to elbow, it will create a consistent wave because of the force the character pull up. Occasionally the creases found most is near the elbow. If the body build is medium, the crease is a bit less when person wearing right size of the t-shirt.

And bear in mind if draw loose clothes. If the person is thin wearing loose t-shirt, the creases are rounded responding to gravity, often found around torso and chest.

Angular creases responding to the length of perimeter, when the t-shirt is stretched. If one day you want to draw the creases, you can do observation study, take the picture and images are deadly accurate. I hope this helps when you draw creases!