#fabric reference

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Oh yes! I have a few snippets randomly posted in here throughout the years (should be under clothing reference or fabric reference tag), but one of my favorite resources for a lot of design related things is Visual Library! Among the huge selection they provide, they have sections dedicated to clothing by type and style. The only downfall is that all the references here are drawn ones and not images taken from life. I have yet to find a good reference library for live photo references of fabric types and how they drape and fold. My solution for that has been to create what I needed from materials I had at home and take photos myself when I've needed to see how something drapes or falls. Plenty of live references for naked poses out there, which I can understand, but we need to know how to draw clothed people, too! I will reblog this with an update if I ever find a nice resource for a variety of live fabric types.

Idk sometimes I see a thing and I’m like “oh shit that would be great to study!!” and since I wanted to do that, i figured I’d put these out there for my fellow art people to look at. Feel free to learn from these pictures coz wow the way the fabric reacts to light is so intense and fun.

This is my tree skirt and the light was really doin something special

I love painting fabric, it’s one of my favorites!!!

You can get this at my redbubble.

All of the images form my fabric types tutorial/reference.

More here.

Bunching fabric tutorial/reference.

More here.

Twisting fabric tutorial/reference.

More here.

A bit about types of fabric, specifically cotton and linen for tutorial/reference.

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