It’s really simple! for the skirt I have 3 main layers, the lines, shading, and base colour. The shading is clipped/grouped with the main (or it can all be on one layer), and the main is set to 40% opacity while the lines are kept at 100%

The skirt lines are lightly coloured as well, and all of underneath her skirt is coloured the same as everything not covered by the skirt :) I think shading the skirt helps it, but I’m not sure how to describe how I go about it ^^’

Sometimes I’ll put everything in a folder (’Skirt’ in this case) and lower the opacity of that, but here I wanted solid lines. Hope this helps!

Both Diamond Pearls are coming tomorrow! :D don’t think I’ll do the Rubies though, but if we see what Amethyst’s original outfit was I’ll draw her and original Ruby, Sapphire and Pearl! or if we see more of the Rubies ^^’

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!}