Fold and drapery notes 01 (Patreon)

Every year I give myself a couple of things that I hope to improve my artistic skills at. Last year hands and hair were areas of focus. This year fold and drapery is one of the topics I am focusing my studies on. 

        With garments the material interacts with both the body and the environment, so I am starting with the body. There is a book by Burne Hogarth called Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery . I used this book as my main source for my notes. 

        It there is useful information in this book. However Burne doesn't do a very good job at explaining it, and in spots I believe he makes his descriptions overly complicate. This results in many people being turned off by his books. Also his art style is not to everyone's taste. However if you're willing to work through those factors there are things to learn from his writing.

        When I was in college one of my instructors recommended that if you wanted to remember something you read, draw it, and then write it down in your own words. So I am going through and reading the book and then taking both visual and written notes, and since I am going through the trouble I might as well share my studies with you. 

       Burne breaks the movements of the body down to four basic categories extension, bending, twisting/turning, and rotation. This is the result of me pruning Burne's writing down to more bite-size chunks. 

      While I am using a human male as my base-line model these notes should with minor modification work for human females, bipedal anthropomorphic characters, and even candy colored, magical ponies.