Naoto Date - How to Draw Clothing for Manga: Learn to Draw Amazing Outfits and Creative Costumes for Manga and Anime--35+ Outfits Side by Side with Modeled Photos

Learn to Draw Amazing Outfits and
Creative Costumes for Manga and Anime

NAOTO DATE

Clothing is an essential part of creating a great manga character. How you draw what your character wears can take them from a simple sketch to a more realistic form with personality and dimension, ready for the anime screen. It all comes down to two very important detailswrinkles and shadows. In How to Draw Clothing for Manga, we focus on understanding these elements of clothing to draw outfits that stand out from the rest

To get started, we first look at fabric and how it folds, gathers, and wrinkles as its covering a human body. Youll learn how to identify when to use particular wrinkle techniques to illustrate how your characters clothing is truly moving on their body. Line drawings are shown side-by-side with photos of models wearing the same outfits, so its easy to see exactly whats being taught. Once youve got a grasp of fabric basics, youll learn to take drawings to the next level by adding shadows that give dimension and shape to garments.

Looking for specific outfit ideas? Weve got you covered. In , learn to draw a variety of garments from t-shirts to skirts, school uniforms and costumes to business attire and more. Each article of clothing is explored in great detail and shown in multiple body positions with a focus on the forces at work creating those important wrinkles, gathers, and folds in the fabric. To further your skills before applying these techniques to your own drawings, you will find practice sketches to add wrinkles and shadows to in the final chapter of the book.

Grab your drawing supplies and lets go!

In this book, we explain how to illustrate manga clothes through two important detailswrinkles and shadows. Youll also find many tips and tricks to better understand how fabric moves and how subtle details can make your clothing more realistic. Photographs are shared side-by-side with line drawings to break down exactly what to add where. Plus, there are samples you can follow step-by-step before adding to your own drawings.

01 Get Started Drawing Clothes

In , youll learn the basics about fabric, drape, wrinkles, and shadows. Its the foundation information you need to successfully draw manga clothes.

02 How to Draw Different Garments

From photography to illustration, in youll find dozens of example clothing pieces shown with tips on how to refine your drawing to make it more believable.

Watch for helpful sidebars with extra information explaining the forces at work creating wrinkles in each garment.

03 Practice Lessons

Before adding wrinkles and shadows to your own illustrations, practice the techniques youve learned on samples provided, step-by-step.

01 Get Started Drawing Clothes

Find useful tips and tricks throughout each chapter.

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02 How to Draw Different Garments

03 Practice Lessons

CHAPTER

Get Started Drawing Clothes

How Fabric Moves

To draw clothing, its important to learn how the human body pulls on fabric and causes it to fold, gather, and wrinkle. Adding these elements to your drawings will create realistic movement and interest. Here, we will introduce different types of folds and wrinkles.

Types of Wrinkling

There are many ways that cloth can move when the body under it moves, but there are three major types of wrinkles and folds for most clothing:

• Folds that appear when pulling at two contact points.
• Gathering that appears when there is tension on an area.
• Wrinkles that appear due to gravity pulling down.

Learning to identify where these three types of wrinkling happen, youll be able to recognize where you should add them to your characters outfit.

PULLED WRINKLES

Wrinkles that appear between two contact points when the fabric is pulled.

GATHERED WRINKLES

Wrinkles that appear when the body bends and forces the fabric to bunch up, such as joints around the knees or elbows.

GRAVITY WRINKLES

Wrinkles that are caused by gravity pulling down on the fabric from a contact point.

MESSY WRINKLES

Tension and gravity arent the only way wrinkles are formed on fabric. Keeping fabric in the same wrinkled position for a long period of time, such as sleeping in clothing or leaving it bunched up on the floor, will crease the fabric. Until that fabric is washed or ironed, those "messy" wrinkles just wont go away.

Where to Draw Wrinkles & Folds

As you start to recognize where wrinkles and folds happen on clothing, youll find some are easier to identify than others. Here, youll see basic wrinkles, where they are happening, and why, before considering those that are harder to spot.