Life has put me behind in the course, but I'm determined to catch up this week! Here's my assignment 3. I think I started to improve a little in images 4-6. Also maybe a benefit of being behind is that I left things a little sketchier - focus on basic shape design instead of perfection or rendering - there will be time for that later...

I'm learning so much ☺️ the blue pencil seemed to affect my phone camera’s brightness 😩 I hope these read all right!

Better late than never!

Two more folds in the arsenal!! Definitely see some mistakes and noting some improvements for next time, but I'm starting to see folds I didn't notice before. Also feeling less overwhelmed when looking at fabric now. :) Can't wait to learn the next ones!

Half lock and spiral fold exercise. I understand the concept of half lock folds, but wonder if I am interpreting them and drawing them properly.

This was really difficult and took many hours of work; the challenge was not really about the folds, but more so for the construction of the figures. I really want to participate in the live version of this class, but I don't think I am as ready as I could be. I completed some lessons in Mr. Hampton's gesture and figure construction courses, but I definitely need more practice of what I learned (for which this class is chock full of that!) plus additional lessons from each course. ( I did go back to fig. const. this week to do a couple of lessons to help develop and improve some skills. Taking this course has reminded me of when I took a calculus-based physics course the same semester as Calculus. The first day of physics was an eye-opener when the prof used derivatives to solve problems and I was weeks away from learning about that in the math course. 😬 I'm going to keep doing my best to keep up with the lessons here. There are so many skilled folks posting work here, so I feel like I am also learning from studying your work too! (I am submitting 3 now since the others are saved on another device. I'll post them later.) Any feedback on the work or suggestions on how to reduce the amount of time I need to spend on each one is always appreciated. Thanks for reading!

Only three poses this week, as my regular job took up too much of my time. The complexity of the task was immobilising at first, but minis and mapping proved helpful: first impressions, tension points, main folds, out- & throughlines, etc. & it is no more daunting to attack the real pose .. I still got lost in detail, as I found it hard to pin down where exactly to put lines when describing the gradations & flow of the folds inside the form, where they morph from one type into another - pipe into diaper, half lock into spiral and then again into something else, etc. Using the marker for halftones helps but feels a little like cheating. Allowing myself to edit & design was helpful & liberating, though : ) Enjoying & learning immensely ..

I spent the week on these doing one or two per day. The first batch are color coded as I worked through identifying the different folds specifically and the later half I was flowing from one fold to the next more naturally so I dropped the colors. I'm going for following the vibe/design rather than getting the folds exactly. I noticed some areas where it's hard to identify where the construct of one fold ends and the beginning of the next begins, but having that framework of understanding let me break down the shapes much more easily. One thing that I'm still really not sure about is how to approach the shading/rendering for the folds. I would love to hear thoughts/feedback on how to approach that.

Aaaah...,this made my head hurt. Hesitant to start and then like hitting a brick wall for every new attempt, really looking forward for the critique stream on this assignment. With the thumbnails, for the first drawings I just got stuck on outline and proportions fiddling back and forth and not getting anywhere so I went for the gesture and construction of the mannequin directly instead.

This was more challenging than the last one. A lot more small folds and it is very chaotic. Those sleeves with a lot of fabric... so confusing. I tried to make sense of it but I have a hard time simplifying, because I'm not really sure what's most important to keep. Looking forward to the critique video and more examples. But I starting to feel more comfortable drawing the figure, so that's great.

Here's my submission :) Critique would be appreciated.

I can tell I’m learning a lot from this class already.

The man with the shirt scared me, also im struggling to capture the foldyness(if that makes sense) like designing/ simplifying the folds from image, im guessing its pratice hmmm

Project Next Two Folds Submission

The third assignment!

I'm really enjoying these studies. Being able to edit them using the ideas you've been teaching in the videos is really helping me simplify and understand drapery much better.

Enjoying the process so far