Proko - October Drapery Study Challenge

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October Proko Challenge - Costume Study

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Steven Michael Hampton

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A brilliant idea and a great opportunity to keep learning. I’m in! Good luck everyone!

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Prompt

We're back with a new Proko Challenge, just in time for spooky season!

Our Drapery course just wrapped up, so we're celebrating with a costume contest. Pick an existing horror movie character and do a drapery study of them, either in their original outfit OR in a Halloween costume you design. Vampire capes, mummy wraps, slasher coveralls, a werewolf in a bedsheet ghost costume... whatever the monster, the closet's open.

Entries will be judged on:

Fold Logic: Do the folds make sense? Show clear tension points, where the fabric pulls and pinches off the body's landmarks, and use active folds (pipe, diaper, compression, spiral, Z and flag) where they belong. No chaotic wrinkles.

Silhouette and Storytelling: Does the costume read as that character at a glance? Use shape language and gesture so the clothing reveals who, or what, is wearing it.

Designed, Not Copied: Edit the drapery so the main folds support the pose, and keep inert folds and small wrinkles quiet so they don't pull focus. Use light and shadow to guide the viewer's eye.

Medium: Any medium, traditional and digital, 2D and 3D is allowed.
Challenge is open to all participants 13 and older.

Deadline for entries is October 26th at 11:59pm PT and winners will be picked during a livestream by Steven Michael Hampton later that week. Submit your entry on this page.

Prizes

First place gets the Drapery course and 2 other Proko original courses

Second Place gets Drapery and one additional Proko original course

Third Place gets the Drapery course

Proko team pick and random winner will also receive the Drapery course

Sponsored by Proko.

Kassjan (Kass) Smyczek

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55m

For this master study, I referenced an illustration published by Del Fondo. Choosing Frankenstein felt like a natural homage, as I’m based in Ingolstadt, Germany—the very city Mary Shelley chose for Victor Frankenstein’s studies at the historic "Hohe Schule." I modified the pose so he is holding a carved pumpkin to make this drapery study about arm folds. The tension point is in his Armpit and the folds lead up to it. My goal was to direct the observer's eye from the primary focus of the face to the pumpkin. With the drapery course I feel like I can lift my knowledge of painting folds to the next level and create strong pieces. To ground the piece even further in local history, I framed the background with the silhouette of Ingolstadt’s landmark cathedral, the "Liebfrauenmünster." Fun fact: Not just Frankenstein came from Ingolstadt, but also the Illuminati. Happy Halloween, everyone! :)

Tommy Pinedo

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10m

Amazing!! 🎃

Tommy Pinedo

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For this challenge I went with Ghostface from scream. I figured he has good folds I can study. I added the reference and thumbnails to show my thought process. I changed his pose a bit to help me with folds around his structure underneath. Drapery is my next course I’m interested since I just finished Hampton intro to figure construction and gesture course. I’m calling it the Hampton series. 🎃 👻

Juice

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Is it enough to draw the character with outfit and show references? Or are we supposed to make whole sheet and draw siluettes, character without the outfit and draw a lot of explaining text? I don’t know what to write if so 😅

Mantas

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I think you can do it however you want! :) just try to look into what kind of elements make the character recognisable (often it is in the silhouette, drapery shapes..). And try to make the drapery make sense (as it is noted in the prompt). Check how Michael did it in the attached example! :)

CharmLotta

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11h

Who says vampires have to be stiff and lifeless? Not this one! Source video: https://youtu.be/XQtDFTUm370?si=Up6tfLHBujlCQWxo Drawn with the fineliners, I sometimes missed Ctrl+Z keyboard shortcut so much...

Gloria Wickman

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15h

Here's my study based on Bela Lugosi's Dracula. I'd love the chance to take the Drapery course in full! I based my study here off of what I learned in the free lessons (especially the Batman character studies). I thought of Dracula as an elegant character so I removed some details that detracted from that like the seam line going through the middle of the cape.

Pedro Soto

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18h

Hello. I’d like to know if anyone would be kind enough to tell me whether this is correct for the competition; I’m not sure if I’ve understood the set task properly.thanks! I love proko, first time in a contest here

Taby

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19h

Ciao a tutti… lascio il mio studio sul Cappellaio Matto. Per le tensioni sul drappeggio…il corso ci starebbe proprio 😉. Buon disegno!

@na_talie

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This is my first ever drapery drawing, so please don't be too hard on me 🫣 I chose pyramid head from "Silent Hill" and drew it twice. Once in the original costume and then in a ghost costume. I thought, that the ghost would be easier, but I really struggled with both of them. Also, I apologize for the pyramid shining through in the ghost. Apparently, I used too much pressure to draw it and could not fully erase it. Drawing over them with a white colored pencil only made the lines more visible.. 😵‍💫

@na_talie

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Here is a better photo

Mantas

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Great work!

@serasward

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Are we submitting it here only?

@martfa

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I aimed for hyperrealism, can you guess which classic horror movie character I chose? A hint: I based myself on the 1933 movie.

CharmLotta

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Sorry, but I feel like your drawing is inappropriate for this challenge. You should have focused on his costume and its folds, but you drew this character naked.

Josh Fiddler

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Nailed it

Sergio Cobo

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A brilliant idea and a great opportunity to keep learning. I’m in! Good luck everyone!

Toosh Shtoosh

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I’m sorry, but this doesn’t make any sense. You should give the drapery course to the person who submitted the worst drawing. The person who will win obviously won’t need it.. Are people who have already taken the Drapery course, or their family members, even eligible to participate?

John B

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Everyone is free to participate and those who already have the Drapery course are welcome to swap it with a different course if they happen to win. We also have a Proko team choice and a random winner for this challenge that will also get the course. That means everyone has a chance of winning just for submitting an entry.

@kleberlessa

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Their logic is nothing short of brilliant: to deliver the course precisely to those who most need to level up.

Neill

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Well, yes and no, right? Someone has to show that they put effort into their drawing and tried to work stuff out on there own. Motivation proves that they will make use of the courses if they win. If someone is like "Here us my horror character, It's the blob. I put him in a cape." and draws a circle with 3 lines on it that probably shouldn't win. :)

Vue Thao

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Cool!

Josh Fiddler

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what if you already own the Drapery course? Asking for a friend.

Ash

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For those who don't know, Josh is killing it in the drapery course! Highly recommend checking out his work if you're here reading this :)

John B

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If you already have the drapery course you can choose a different Proko course!