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aidancos-deactivated20160201: Can you show us how you draw folds in the clothes (I think that's what they're called) like in the blue diamond thing?

Sure! it’s a little hard to describe though ^^’ like with this I find cloth creases one of those things I’m just used to doing, and that it’s a combination of what I think looks nice and what should probably be there.

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Looking at your own clothes or just clothes in general really helps! even if it isn’t what you’re trying to draw, it all helps in understanding how cloth things work. For flowy things I try to draw the ends loose, lots of curving on top of itself for big waves, keeping it a continuous wave. Sometimes I try and imagine the weight of the curve, how it fits in with the others…it kind of helps.

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For anything with a large drop (skirts, capes, aprons) I tend to draw out an oval and edge lines to figure out the overall curve of the fabric and where it ends, then I go over with whatever curvy line looks nice and fits the base line. For the creases imagine there’s a point that everything is attached to…well there actually is but yeah, follow the peaks of the curves up to those points. Same goes for the bits of cloth folded over itself underneath.

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In terms of animation a basic way of showing cloth is a wave. It’s a little hard to see here, but there’s a continuous wave to the right, the edge of the cloth rests on top of that imaginary line.The Blue Diamond picture works the same, but with a more abstract line shape!

Hopefully this is somewhat helpful ^^’ but yeah, it’s all mainly habit for me now, not so much any one method that is obvious or any hints or tips I can give.

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Calendar January 11, 2016 13:21

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Anonymous: So a new design of Opal has just aired on tv and I cannot wait to see what you are going to do with it. P.S. Your art is amazing!!

Yeah! it’ll probably be a while before I get to Opal though ^^’ her animation takes a lot longer than the others I’m working on…(the base is made though, I made a revised one for her other design but never uploaded it so I’ll be fixing that). But yeah, Opal won’t be coming for a while, have got 5 others I’ll be uploading during the week though! and thanks! :D

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Calendar January 9, 2016 13:09

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whoopsie, Happy (over a week late) New Year!

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Calendar January 6, 2016 21:17

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Anonymous: Are you gonna do the new garnet design animation? 😻😻

Yes! but it’ll be a couple of days before I have it up :)

Also might do a Blue Pearl and Diamond if I have time~ ooh and we have old Pearl, Sapphire and Ruby designs too OTL too many new things!

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Calendar January 6, 2016 14:00

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some roughs and tests for more Dragon Age animated card deelies~ …probably going to change these up a bit :\ going to be a while before I can actually finish them…

oh! and if anyone has a suggestion feel free to send it in :) a little stuck on a couple of companions…I remember getting a few suggestions for Origins and II characters a while ago but I hadn’t played them at the time ^^’

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Calendar December 17, 2015 14:22

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chicinlicin:

redid this old Mordin doodle deelie…because I’m terrible.

Whoop! entered this into the WeLoveFine Mass Effect contest! you can vote for it here if you’d like this on a shirt~ :D

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Calendar December 12, 2015 10:04

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Planning

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Sketch

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Photo colour plan

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Second colour plan

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Main shading and lines

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Background base

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Background detail and colour adjust

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Process for my @crystalgemzine piece, haven’t done one of these in a while. Kind of went to an absurd level of planning for this ^^’

Decided to do my colour plan a second time to keep in theme with this picture, and base it off colours from family holidays. Funny making those quick 3D models too XD heh, they are quite helpful though!

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