I couldn't do it within the deadline unfortunately, but here is my assignment ! It was challenging to avoid getting caught in all those tiny details so I tried to put as little marks as possible and aim for the motion rather than the likeness...

Okay. Wow. So much to think about.

You make it look so easy and yet it's so challenging

Here's my assignment! I saw the video critique where Michael talked about design and it was super helpful with these new ones. The Z folds were very difficult for me. I understand how they work, but it's hard to put them into practice. I tried to think of the them as compression folds stuck one on another, but with no good result... i think. I really would like some feedback, because i like them as folds. Meanwhile flag and inert folds were pretty much easy. The only thing that i was wondering is: since inert folds are random and chaotic, is it possible to give them a logic? While i was designing inert folds, i thought of them as a mix of some of the other folds together and i tried to composed them like they are connected one on another, is it a good way to edit, compose and draw them? Last thing, now that we have all the folds, i have one thing that is troubling me. That is stiffness in drawing clothing and folds... i always feel like my drawings of folds lack something that i cannot properly see and i don't know how to avoid this. Since i want to convey with just lines first, i was thinking if it could be a problem of line weight or the way i draw the folds. Or maybe since is relatively a new subject i am still learning how to properly draw folds and clothing. But i cannot figure this out :/ Aside from some of these doubts, i like most of these drawings i did :) I'm happy that i finally started to learn more about drapery, so i can design better characters! :D

The fourth assignment!

I worked through 1-2 of these per day since the assignment video was posted. The overall practice of seeing and wrapping is definitely getting easier and the rendering was clicking more this time as well. I feel like on a few of these (especially the last one) I'm losing the ideas of the design by not spending enough time and attention on the line hierarch (and so focus isn't landing in the right places). For the folds, the flag fold is the one that I find the trickiest. My question for flag folds is how to capture the billow and edges of the fold without going overboard with detail?

Here is my submission.

man, everyone's submissions look so good! i feel super out of place in this class lol but i did me bes. still struggling to find the right brush settings for these kinda studies, i still can't quite get the line quality that i want.

Here’s my z,flag, and inert folds assignment. This is fantastic. I ever could draw wrinkles with just lines without being distracted by the shading. Mr. Hampton (don’t know whether to call you Steven or Michael), in the critique could you give tips in using seams? When is it useful to include them or leave them out? Do you havetips on drawing them?

I made it! (barely). I started my first job recently (yay!) so haven't had as much time for drawing (boo) but I wanted to be consistent and submit before the deadline, even if it's only 2 drawings. I have a question about how fabric types impact fold. In the flag fold photograph, the model is wearing different layers of varying fabric. I feel like in my drawing they all sort of look...samey and that it's difficult to tell the layers apart. I tried to convey the stiffness of the cape material but for some reason it just doesn't feel heavy to me like it does in the photograph. I feel like Micheal touched on this briefly in a previous lecture but I would really appreciate a demonstration on how to draw distinctly different materials layering on top of each other but still having them read cleanly! Thanks a lot!! I'm really enjoying this course :)

I tried to show the form this time with ink. I did a style study of witch hat atelier and apply it at my last drawing. There is definitely more work to do. Any feedback is appreciated :3

I completed 5 of the images for this week's assignment - I'll continue doing more later this week but wanted to get these in for the critique deadline.

I've done my homework for this week's assignment. I find doing these studies quite a lot of fun and really quite intuitive once you finally grasp the fundamentals of drapery. I'm still not perfect but being able to see a mess of drapery and to be able to communicate the figure and form thru my drawing is great. Whereas before this course I'd just be trying to copy every little fold while not communicating anything.

Here are my submissions for this week. Feeling more confident the more I work through these, and I’m starting to differentiate between the different types of folds. Still having a bit of difficulty simplifying the chaotic mix when multiple fold types overlap, and sometimes I’m unsure whether I’m reading a fold correctly or not 😬

Here's my assignment for this week. Now that I've learned all 7 folds, I actually see them in the references instead of getting overwhelmed by random wrinkles. And when I study from the masters, I notice how they just simplify these folds with their own artistic choice. Now, I believe I just need to practice a lot and keep observing.

I hope I have met the brief as I have had so much fun and loved every minute of the course with the bonus of some art history thrown in.

Here is my assignment for this last section.

POV: you participate the Drapery Fundamentals course and you're married. Husband: "Why have you been staring at the same photo for 10 minutes?" Me: "I'm trying to imagine this man naked". "?????" My brain is already fried after finishing a single drawing (foreshortened and compressed poses hidden under the garment! extreme head positions! AAAAA!), so one a day is the absolute maximum for me. I managed to draw six before the deadline and I need a break...