How to Draw Leather Clothes

Video Transcript

"O'kay folks in this clip we are going to talk about how to draw a leather jacket. Leather is obviously different than many other materials in that it has got a certain degree of texture to it. The best thing to do is start by drawing a collar and come on up, establish the collar and put it right in there, something, now obviously there are going to be different styles of leather jackets and I am assuming you are going to be trying to go for more of a fashionable look for yours, creating sort of a zipper look here and that is just the early collar and that is just a buttoned up thing. Now what we could do now is come in here and give her some sort of a shoulder straps, something just to make it look a little bit more like a jacket instead of a shirt, little buttons there on the top and add a little metal clasp there to the end so we know for sure that it is a jacket. Now this is where the leather part has to come in and really come in and draw the creases and the wrinkles that make up a leather jacket as opposed to say a regular like khaki style or corduroy. It is obviously going to be a little different, sort of a different look for leather and you could even go for short of like a biker style where she has maybe cropped the sleeves and rolled them up. But it is all in the texture as you can see, coming in and adding sort of the creases and the folds and this is basically if you are doing sort of a rough cartoon design. Come in and really just kind of wrinkle it up and add the texture and in a simple cartoon drawing that is all you really need to do to establish the fact that it is in fact a leather jacket and that is essentially what we are trying to do here. Really give it some definite lines though and that is one thing that is the danger. When you go and you start adding texture to something make sure you really clearly define where all the definite lines are, otherwise they just get lost in all the texturing that you've done. So firmly establish those, firmly establish your outer edges. But from there feel free to really go in and add the detail that really make up the parts of the jacket, stress points and parts where the thing is sort of wrinkled up a bit. Once you have learned how to do that you have got a pretty good idea on how to draw a basic leather jacket."