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Published: 2018-12-06 03:12:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 311; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 0
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Welp, I have been convinced by the master of the dark artz Balimbang to do some studies on folds. I did one initially via painting, but for some strange reason wanted to test it too with another form of shading.Related content
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Ah, fabric folds. One of my least favorite subjects in drawing stuffs 
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Thanks man!
And I agree, the folds and shading XP
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Yo great study! It's definitely a good idea to study the location and color of shading before going into the rendering, I think a lot of my old painting struggles came from a lack of drawing and color skills rather than the actual rendering process itself.
The traditional one looks especially cool man, I probably should do some traditional cloth studies as well to better understand the different kinds of folds. The pain of cloth painting is honestly endless.
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I agree, the style I usually go for does not require much rendering, but the issue I mainly face with my fold is the lighting of things.
I would love to see your traditional studies! I find that traditional is better for understanding rendering, and digital for coloring because traditional is far more limiting in the realm of piece manipulation and, unless you are doing traditional painting, kind of forces you to use shapes and volumes more. After all, drawing a rainbow epilepsy character is almost impossible in traditional XP
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The digital one looks cel-like and a bit frayed as it is (probably primarily due to relatively limited time), but I reckon it would be a simple process to smooth it out or polish out the edges given some time. The colors seem realistic—whites are rarely as truly white as we remember them as. Great fold study overall.
The physical one looks great from afar/in-person, but it may be difficult to fully digitize faithfully and still look good due to its "sloppiness". Maybe on pure white cardstock...
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The digital one I could have blended it all together, but I decided not to because it was less so for me to understand the blend and more so about understanding the different lighting that goes into folds. I agree, the sleeve in the photo looks like a light white, but the reality of it is is that is really grey XP
Also fo the traditional drawing, it was a warm-up drawing, but also a drawing to see if I could translate the previous digital study I did and make it more cell shaded. I don't think it would look better on white paper because the mid-tone paper offers the mid-tone that is the color of the sleeve, and if I added the highlights with whiteout, it would add better dimension, I really think it is just due to the lighting of the picture that makes it look sloppy.
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