Reference for drapery?

MainManiac

Id like to study drawing drapery because thats our next task in class, but i've tried every kind of keyword combination there is on google images and all I get is other peoples drawings

leilei

You could pull your shirt sleeve

This is what I learned from. Probably not definitively authorative but it helped me then.

MainManiac

No thats not what I meant :P, I mean I want to practicing shading draper and I wanted a still life of a sheet draped or something

MM

why not just drop a table cloth on a chair and draw that ?

Wells

cgtextures is your friend

tkkstar

There are the hanging drapes that are on cgtextures.com under wrinkles/hanging section that might be of some use.

seth.

MM wrote: »

why not just drop a table cloth on a chair and draw that ?

I thought exactly the same thing.

rube

yep.. you'll learn a lot more throwing a sheet or pillowcase over some books than you will drawing from a photo.

MainManiac

Oh because im drawing in PS and I honestly figured theyd be easier to find.

I already saw the cgtextures ones but Im looking for stuff like this:

Justin Meisse

Yeah, drape a sheet over a chair by a window or a strong light to get some nice dramatic shadows. It's sad that the internet has made us forget the age old technique of drawing from life.

When I was in school doing stuff like this I used real life reference for everything. I even went as far to pose in a makeshift bed sheet toga for drapery on a human reference.

MM

frell wrote: »

Oh because im drawing in PS and I honestly figured theyd be easier to find.

try "draped" or "drape" as search term.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=draped&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1506l2511l0l3435l6l6l0l0l0l0l276l1407l0.1.5l6l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1904&bih=991&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi


also, i imagine it shouldnt be a big hassle to setup something small next to your monitor. take a pillow cover and drape it on your speakers, or over a glass. get creative.

MainManiac

You've got to be kidding me, the one word I didn't try because I figured itd be the same result as "Drapery".

Great idea with the speakers though

Mark Dygert

You could be a total 3D nerd and drop some highly triangulated cloth planes on different shapes... You could even use live drag to fluff the cloth and tweak it how you like, then draw that. You could even apply wind to animate it, then put the time slider on whatever frame looks cool from whatever angle and draw that. I know a few comic book artists who have used that method to get good ref capes, drapes and flags.

This could work out pretty well if you have two monitors...

Alberto Rdrgz

Just grab a blanket and throw over something and draw.

skankerzero

Man, I would never have my students draw in PS for still life / life drawing.

That shit needs to be done in traditional media.

Andreas

frell wrote: »

Id like to study drawing drapery because thats our next task in class, but i've tried every kind of keyword combination there is on google images and all I get is other peoples drawings

Jeebus... peoples over-reliance on computers these days! Get a cloth and make the still life yourself, and draw!

Lazerus Reborn

[ame]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bridgmans-Complete-Guide-Drawing-Life/dp/1402766785/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314289527&sr=1-1[/ame]

There's actually a separate book for it on amazon somewhere but i cant find it so ive posted the compendium of his books. I have both, would you believe. It covers everything you just asked for and could ever want for drawing draped cloth and clothes on the human form and static's.

Enjoy

skankerzero

Andreas wrote: »

Jeebus... peoples over-reliance on computers these days! Get a cloth and make the still life yourself, and draw!

very true.

A digital photo cannot convey the depth of a real life still life.

I suppose they teach color theory in PS as well now?

Karmageddon

This is a problem I've run into more than once. CGtextures is ok for drapery reference, but Googling what you want is damn near impossible. Most cloth you look for is to sell some stupid patterned curtain with an image size that's way too small for texturing and you find yourself cutting bits and pieces and trying to warp them and blend them in Photoshop and it looks icky. Tried this once myself, gave up, got a plain white bedsheet I use only for this purpose and took photos of it at every fold possible (I believe there are seven?). Avoid petterned and dark cloth as your ref cloth so that it's easier to overlay/multiply etc in Photoshop.