Cloth Is Hard - Crits Needed

Norron

Howdy everyone, I need some help/critique on a character of mine. I'm trying to sculpt some cloth and need some input. Right now it's lacking in form and just plain looks bad.





Any good places for reference would be great as well, my google-fu was weak.

Also, here's a couple of the full character for laughs.

Av7xrocker97

I think the cloth looks pretty fine. I like the character too. He looks like an ancient version of the fleshpound from killing floor.

Norron

Heh, yeah I realized pretty late into the sculpting process that I had pretty much remade the Flespound as an Aztec. Since it's a school assignment it was too late to change it around too much.

MainManiac

One thing you have to remember about cloth is that not only does it fold outward, but inward. Do both to an extreme and then smooth down to your liking.

catstyle

hey man

usually with long hanging cloth like that you get a lot of deep long vertical creases

but yeah you'll have a hard time finding loin cloth/tabard style reference images on google, you'd be better off googling for drapery or hanging cloth, or grab a camera and appropriate sized garment and take some photos :poly142:

found a nice piece of ref here searching for draping cloth that could help:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QpyGXj58Xm4/S_Im8GVWE9I/AAAAAAAAALA/ev5T736BqP8/s1600/264q6nn.jpg

hope any of that helps!

Norron

Excellent! Thank you sir.

I think I was starting to do "V" folds (or whatever the heck they're called) but that wouldn't be appropriate here since it's supported across the entire cloth's top edge instead of 2 points, right?

Snader

Man, if only there was some reference for such a type of clothing...


Too bad there's not a single similar outfit out there.


Oh well...

Norron

Oh well, I guess I'll have to pack it in then. There's no reference at all for this.

catstyle

Haha!

now im just curious snader, what did you type in to find that :P

Norron

Did a little bit more on the loincloth. It's different, but I don't think it's much better yet.

I'm having problems with the way I constructed the mesh for this, specifically the bottom. I can't seem to deform it in any way that makes it look like a section of cloth and that's ruining it.

Norron

I think I found something that works alright. Thanks for the help everyone.

Sukotto

I want to see the final version dammit.

Norron

Whoops, here's some shots of where it is now. He needs skin detail, some non-broken toes, and polypaint at the moment.

The feathers in the headdress will be alpha'ed. I like how the leather turned out, but not the cloth. It still doesn't look like a real material.

PogoP

Looks good but yeah, the cloth is letting it down a little. Search for 'Princess Leia' in google and you have all the reference you need!



When a fold comes down, the creases pull in the surrounding cloth and make it fall in a curvy S shape rather than a straight shape.

At the moment yours looks more like corrugated sheet metal. You've got the technique almost right though, keep chipping away at it!

Norron

Wait Pogo, did you just post that or is the forum acting screwy? I remember that post being at the top and months ago.