How To: Draw a Person Part ll (Clothes)

Do you remember my post that taught you how do draw the human form? Well here is the next post! I'm going to help you with drawing clothes! (Sorry the next paragraph has lots of art vocab...)

When you draw, you have to keep in mind that all things have value. Value is using lights and darks (or tints and shades) of a color to show depth. I want you to look around. Do you see many 2D shapes? There are not many shapes around us but there are forms, or 3D objects. We want to capture that as we draw so that we can create a realistic form.

The supplies that you'll need are:
1 Pencil (or pen, your choice!)
1 Eraser
1 piece of Paper

Okay, first we are going to draw the contour or outline of the clothes. With the guy, I'm just drawing a v-neck t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers. For the girl I'm drawing just a regular v-neck, some skinny jeans, and sneakers.

The outline

 Now that we have the basic outline and the light source, we need to find where all of the values go. I like to start with the wrinkles. If your person is moving or bending there will be more wrinkles. If they are just standing (like my people are) then there will be less wrinkles. Amazing, right!?!

I like to have the wrinkles darker so that when I add other values, you can still see the wrinkles! 

Next we are going to shade in the whole thing. Think about how dark something is and try to recreate that. With every dark edge you need to have a lighter edge next to it to create space. Sorry about my shading, I'm hurrying!

 That's pretty much all you do! Remember that clothes should express your person and help set the mood!!! (Sorry the shading is bad! I'll post again to show you shading more and how to draw some other clothes.) Good luck! If you want any extra help, or have an idea for a tutorial that you'd like me to do, just leave a comment! If you want to see some other tutorials, look at Martina's blog!

See ya!