#fabric folds are hard :(

[improvapocalyps]

I was listenin' to the ocean I saw a face in the sand But when I picked it up Then it vanished away from my hands, down...

My Darling (The Devil Knows My Name), by @simple-seranade

In participation of the Hermitshipping Big Bang 2023 hosted by @hermitshippingbigbang!

(^ rough reference sheet, emphasis on the rough. i also did not notice the difference in lineart color until saving this as an image file.)

#hermitshipping #clethubs #cletho #hermitshipping big bang #events #my art #pro tip: dont plan a 4-month project when in reality you only have about a month of free time total in those four months #i really need to practice having long-term projects #dont ask me how cleos braid work cause idk LOL #same with ethos hair #[how do i draw a wolfcut] you DONT silly!!! #hair inconsistencies happen bc they move around and not bc the artist have a skill issue /lhj #bishop sleeves are so hard to draw im never drawing them again. #stupid fabric folds (affectionate)

[parisoonic]

I love how you portray some of the mercinaries in your work and I love how expressive you make them! Its very shapely if thats the right word.

Do you have any main inspirations when drawing?

thank you!!! your work rules btw ;; i place a big personal empahasis on shape-e-ness and try to pay a lot of attention to silhouette and posing...i'm eternally jealous of people who can maintain good posing (BONUS if it's naturalistic), good simplification of forms, sexy lineart AND keep their characters lively and animated! i think mine get very stiff sometimes but urghh...we try we try UMMM if we're talking about characters...it feels kinda lame to say as it's so 'generic', but Disney! the design work and simplication of forms are so perfect in certain films that I think it's really worth studying as a masterclass on posing and clarification. Some of my favourites are 101 Dalmatians and The Sword in the Stone although big shout-outs to Atlantis, Emperor's New Groove and Herclues. I really love mid-century modern too so that influence creeps in a lot, especially if I'm doing toonier stuff. I'll revisit UPA films or their descendents (Dexter's Lab / Powerpuff Girls / Johnny Bravo) quite often. I really like the clean lines, graphic shapes, strong poses and recycling of colour palettes that define these guys. Of course, there's a tonne of modern/contemporary artists I really like - some I've had the pleasure of working with (crazy ;;) ... I reccomend checking out Juliaon Roels, Julien Rossire, Meg Park, James Woods and Ami Thompson ...ah the list really could go on!! Recently I've been reading original Asterix et Obelix and Marsupilami to study the linework. I'm really enjoying the thick-to-thin, the gag?...oriented posing and acting and the simplification of fabric and hands.

#asks #i really like talking about styles and art and what i like about x or y #it was very hard not to get out loads of pictures and arrows and obsess over some elbow fabric folds from 101 dalmatians in this post #and go full...sunny in philadelphia pinboard meme #anyways hopefully a fraction of this emerges in my art

[millenniummmbop]

I love when ygo artists give kaiba's turtleneck puffy little princess sleeves it really amps up the bastard child prince energy

#i admire ppl who can draw folds and fabrics well that shit is hard lmfao #when they draw the fabric visibly scrunched up around the belts and shit and im like #'omg yaaas kween u can depict weight and volume soooo gooood 😍' #*twirls my hair* #'omg u do HOW many hours of fabric studies??? that is sooooo hot' #*bats my eyelashes* #'wow king u notice sooooo many little nuanced details about the visible world and can work them into ur art w/o making it too distracting #to the overall piece'

[duck-noises]

Mimir in a kilt

but i couldn’t decide on a colour so here’s 6

#i tried to match the colours of the front facing draw to the back as much as i could 😭😭😭 #would you look at those folds in the fabric 😳 #yes ladies i am single #AND LOOK AT THE HOOVES 😍 #the original one is the yellow but even after i had finished it i still couldn’t decide on a colour #gow ragnarok #gow fanart #gow 2018 #gow #gow mimir #the devil may work hard but i work harder

[sysig]

This is a very serious story about a man named Stanley (Patreon)

#Doodles #The Stanley Parable #TSP #Just kidding I tricked you it's more silly fluff! But it is still about Stanley haha #Starting off with just some general doodles because Fun To Draw <3 #I was trying to draw Stanley pursing his lips from a side angle 'cause lip expressions are something I struggle with and yup! That tracks #He does look cute tho haha spacey boy thinking in emoticons #More Narra floof - trying to even out his hair but it's harder than I thought! Hm! #The ''long side'' (really just the side opposite of his part) has more volume so it's hard to get them to convincingly ''match'' lol #Doesn't help when he has it all mussed haha #Sleepy lads <3 Sleeping together but so grumpily barely touching! No snuggles! Protect the chest and don't get cozy! #Yeah that lasted all of like five minutes once they were both asleep lol Stanley must cuddle the warm spot on his mattress haha #I'm quite pleased with that one especially haha ♫ Sin looks so open and unbothered and relaxed and his hand ah <3 #Narra's so put out (but he does secretly like to be snuggled. He's never admit it tho!) #You might notice I also tried a different eyelid fold style for funsies in the first Stanley-solo and them sleeping together #It was in fact funsies! Haha #I still like the simple dot-folds but every once in a while it's fun >:3c #Capping off with more size silliness hehe - if he can go very big why not very small! Put a Narrator in your pocket and walk around with him #He'll complain the whole time that your pocket is cramped and you did a bad job in picking fabric haha #Oh but he'd be especially cute in Stanley's breast pocket <3 #Also he's not speaking in that one I just didn't know how else to express that thought about Narra being So y'know? Lol #Cute lads <3

[malachite834]

Sweater season has begun to make its triumphant return

#art #digital art #my art #oc: niko #furry #furry art #anthro #anthro art #shark #furry shark #anthro shark #malachite thoughts #god so many tags #anyway it's them!!! #haven't actually drawn niko in a while #so this was nice to do #completely thought up this drawing just because I thought the pose would be cute #(when shirts do the thing while stretching. you know 👀) #also fabric folds. god they're hard to draw #the stripes were so difficult to do #so you better fucking appreciate them /lh #AND I ALMOST FORGOT THE LITTLE FIN ON HIS TAIL. #AGAIN. #UGH.

[lapipupi]

#my art #finnnnnnn #finn the human #adventure time #man i really need to study clothes 😭😭😭 #fabric folds and textures #acc just textures in general #BUT were playing with funky angles here AND the bottom of a sneaker!!!! #that is hard #one step at a time yk #digital art

[poorlittlevampire]

im never gonna finish this have a bad little sketchy thing

#proportions are whack i know #i luv u drawing fabric with lots of folds #also the hair looks like that bc im trying to emulate alphonse mucha's style #i try so hard all the time but its always WRONG but its fun to try #arin if u see this look im using medibang wowowowow arent u impressed

[thecowboykatsuki-anon]

First up in my lil sketch/ask game is Ochaco Uraraka requested by @joz-stankovich !

Her hair is a tad bit longer here simply because the bob was frustrating the hell out of me

#cowgirl! uraraka #holy fuck Jean jackets are fun/hard to draw #so many fabric folds #for fucks same #*sake #uraraka ochacho #uraraka ochaco fanart #bnha ochaco #mha ochaco #uraraka x reader #mha uraraka #bnha uraraka #BNHA uravity #cowgirl! uravity #cowboy au #🤠 sketch #🤠draws #sketch game #ask game

[kasper-k]

Trying to learn how to make plushies and i just realized i accidentally sewed the fabric the wrong way 😐

#tbf its thin flannel thats light tan and its pretty hard to notice which way is the right way #also im really bad at remembering which way to fold in to sew spheres for the head 😔😔😔 #i turned it inside out and the raw edges for the top and bottom were inside out 🥲 scream... #i might just seam rip it and try again. i dont want to waste fabric :(

[therizinotfuckingthere]

WOOO

#i headcanon that they are besties #do a lot of runs together #a lot of items are useless for the lost so polly just voids those #they do silly things together #i had a lot of fun doing this :] #the cloth gave me a hard time in the pencil version #i made this because the pencil drawing wasn't what i had wanted it to look like so i NEEDED to fix that #so i did :)c #i improved a lot with the fabric folds #its not perfect but its a huge improvement #the lighting was interesting to figure out once i realized i wanted the lost to glow #lost's tail looks like spilled milk #wonder what theyre talking about #also im shocked that polly's feet turned out so well #i accidentally made one like that and it looked great but then i realized i had to do the other #also the holding hands part took the longest #it was only when i started using different colored slightly transparent layers that i was able to get them right #theri's art #tboi #the binding of isaac #tboi apollyon #tboi the lost

[wlw-cryptid]

You made a skirt yourself 👀 that's so cool 😍

yes i did !! its all the way down to my ankles and black with little tiny lavender flowers + tiny little leaves . i made it a wrap skirt so i can have a lil bow w the ties on one side

#it was HARD to keep the hems and shit straight for those long long long sides #the fabric i chose doesnt wrinkle which is great for wearing it but holy fuck. it doesnt iron . it doesnt hold a fold no matter WHAT you do #its super comfortable though #it also didnt enjoy being gathered so instead it ended up just kind of being pleated? but thats fine it looks really nice #she speaks #anon #asks #selenearya #i want to make more but my mom was so frustrating about every step of the process #from the moment i told her i wanted to do it she went through like 8 different stages and strategies of getting in my way or making me mad #she almost called in the evil grandma who made me cry on my 16th birthday to Help Me With It #even though i repeatedly told her to not even Mention it to this woman #anyways im soooo pretty and cute and sweet little seamstress. butches let me make you shirts <3

[snowydawn17]

As much as my brain fixates on p5 I just. God. Igor in p3. Everything after the finale battle. It’s not an excessively difficult fight but it’s a DRAINING one, and the first thing Igor tells you is everything is okay. There’s no need to worry. And everyone makes jokes about needing a save point STAT, Igor, but you’re still relieved!! Even as you’re nervous about what’s coming, because you KNOW Nyx proper is still looming. Just. (Clenches fist) The inherent safety and comfort of the velvet room

#and I know this is specifically absent in p5 bc of plot reasons! #but the p4 velvet room just. doesn’t hit the same #there’s just Something about p3! #about Minato and Kotone and Elizabeth and Theodore and Igor #about the elevator and the steady simple rise #i think p4 tried a little too hard. or rather they just did Too Much there #you had teddie stuff and Marie stuff and while that’s all cool and fun #and honestly it builds the room’s rep as a safe haven #it just. doesn’t hit the same #p4 and p5��s velvet rooms are a fold in the fabric that catches the lost #p3’s velvet room is a fold that catches you the player specifically #idk! idk

[fabulouslygaybean]

okay i was working on a full doodle page with the intent of posting it later but i liked this particular one so it's going on here early

#my art #just. fabric folds are hard to draw y'all #and im proud of the way it looks in this :] even if it's a drawing of a turtle person from a kid's cartoon lmao

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

[intra-normal]

Listen I'm not great at clothing but I'd like to think I'm getting better

#art #digital art #character art #clothing #fabric folds my beloathed #even worse than hair #and the other eye #the real reason i rarely draw human and humanoid characters #clothes are hard as fuck #but i also have no desire to draw genitals #so i stick to critters and beasts