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Summary: When drawing clothes, draw them to drape similarly to how they are worn. Learn about fashion and clothing design sketches in this free video from a fashion designer.
Kaushik Modak worked in Lakme, India fashion week 2002 with Sabyasachi Mukherjee. He also runs a level with his own name. You can find his creations in CTC Mall, BJ’s Atelier, and PC...read more
"You can just have a look over here. This is perfectly shape body what we require for draping a garments. So I'll show you how to drape a garments now. So here's start draping a clothes. Now, how we drape a clothes? In, from the body, we have to give a half inch loosing for draping a clothes because whenever we wear a clothes, we also wear loosing. So according to that, while draping a clothes in a croque, we need to drape a clothes in the similar way how we wear the clothes. So here we start draping. I'm making a shirt. Just give the follow similarly as it sounds realistic. The main thing we have to notify over here is that we should follow the fall of a fabric. Now if we take a light fabric, we should study the fall of a fabric. In light fabric we can see that the fabric gives a lot of movement in our body. So it's similarly, light fabric, I mean in light fabric, it might be Georgette, Chiffon or whatever, which is very lightweight, it gives all this kind of movement. So we have to show all those kind of movements in this figure while draping a clothes."
eHow Article: Sketching Clothing in Fashion Design