How to Draw Clothing

How to Draw Clothing How to Draw Clothing Drawing the clothing is the most interesting part of a painting. It can be creative and easy to do and you need not stick to any set rules or norms before drawing the dresses or suits for your painting. While is fun to do, you may as well keep certain tips in mind so that you can draw out different clothing to make your paining even more interesting. You can draw modern clothing or pre-medieval clothing or the pre-modern times clothing for your painting. All the different ages have different and unique and can be drawn keeping the specifications in mind. While men’s clothing is simpler and doesn’t need much work, women’s clothing has more of fur and frills that require a bit of more work. Similarly masculine clothes do not have as many colors as a woman’s dress can have.

It always helps to keep a dress design in mind before you start drawing clothing for your paining. You can break the clothing into different sections so that you can always draw with ease. And you need not be a fashion designer to draw creatively for the clothing. But to get a hang of the way clothing is drawn you can always check out various picture of dresses so that you get a fair idea about how to draw clothing for your painting.

First of all, you can pick a dress that you want to draw for your character in the painting. Then get your stuff ready. Get some good drawing papers, pencils, erasers, colors and glitters and even bedazzlers if you want to make paper clothing for your dolls.

Steps to draw clothing:

Pick a dress that you want to draw. Just to take an example, let’s draw a woman’s gown complete with gloves and a hat. You can draw a wedding gown or simple evening gown. While for wedding gowns you can use only lighter colors, for an evening gown you can use vibrant and much more brighter colors.
Start with the out line of the gown that you are going to draw. Imagine that your painting of the body is done and you have a female body drawn which you need to cloth now. Female figures and narrow waist and relatively broader hips like a bottle. So now that you female body is drawn you can use the body to draw the outline of the gown you are going to draw. Remember that you can either draw a longer gown which is ankle length or shorter ones that reach the knees.
Suppose you pick to draw a longer gown then you would be avoiding complications of the knee shapes and hence it is always easy to draw longer full length gowns.
You can also not the shape of the hands of your painting. You can keep the hands in different positions and draw the clothing to match them. The gown that you are going to draw can have sleeves or no sleeves depending on your choice. If you draw high neck with sleeves, you would be hiding the shoulders and the neck lines. If you draw a sleeveless and strapless gown, you would need to show the necklines and shoulder shapes more clearly.
Depending on the style you choose to draw you can make the waist narrow or with frills. Similarly you can draw a body tight dress with a high slit or a gown with lots of frills on the waist or under the knee.
You can draw any belts or collars that you want with the dress but referring to an image always helps.
For the gloves, you would just need to draw the end of the gloves with one of two darker lines with a few spherical lines that can be take for the crèches of the gloves. You can draw the gloves on the fingers as well and color them accordingly.
For the hat, you would need to pick a style and draw it on top of the head. Depending on the style, the hat can come till the ears or just remain on top like the bonnets. If you choose to draw a ladies formal hat, you can draw the sphere of the hat around the head and can keep the inner line of the rim right on the middle of the forehead. In such a hat, the ears would be visible. Draw the top of the hat with oval shape and complete with colors. You can also draw a feather or two for the hat that rises above the hat in a n outward manner.

Pick a picture of the dress that you want to draw and just try to copy it. This way you can practice with a lot of dresses before you draw creative clothing.