Posted: 26 March 2011 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | 2
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Somewhat oversimplified, it comes down to gravity. Drapery hangs, and what has to be kept foremost in mind is the point or points from which it hangs -- and that's true whether it's a handkerchief, a tablecoth, a shirt, a skirt or a cape. I got drapery wrong for a looooooong time. Curiously, it was getting into 3D modeling that really helped me get a handle on it (as it did with several elements of my drawing, in fact). I wasn't satisfied with the way most commercial modeling programs handled cloth, so I decided to do it myself, manually, and that meant really studying the way it worked. In the end, of course, it comes back to the same old song: practise!
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