My favourite reference book for clothing, Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery by Burne Hogarth. Other good places to look would be in clothing catalogues. An indispensable source for modelling clothing.
I've watched richards tut numerous times already, it was alright. Heres how i normally start my clothes, usually with the armpit tuck If you see, some of the cloth folds just 'end'. But when i try to smooth them they look to dead an flat.
If you give your cloth some thickness you'll have an easier time working all the way up to the edge. You should just be able to highlight the enitre object and extract it with the thickness control turned up a little to achieve that. One tool I like to use with cloth is the deco brush. You'll need to drop into projection…
Well there are many sites around with reference and pretty much gather as much as you can.You have your base model id say your best bet now is to start sculpting some in blocking it out to get a feel and keep refining.Look at images study how clothing drapes and folds and try to incorporate that into your work.Keep…
It is actually a really good idea to have made a very well defined character before starting on the folds, as every shape will affect the draping of the cloth differently. But the thing is, we cannot really help you until you have made any folds we can comment on. Also, the not so pleasant bit about learning how to make…