Transcripts
1. Class Trailer: Hello Skillshare learners. My name is Sam or Sammy
and welcome to my studio. In this video class series, we'll be going over how to draw outfits for your
female characters. I'll go through my
process in hydride, different pieces of clothing. This will be broken down into
three real-time sessions, as well as the video
detailing your class project. This video is designed for beginners as well as
intermediate artists. After this course, you should have a good grounding
of how to go about designing and drawing outfits
for female characters. With that, please go ahead and join me for the love of art.
2. Lesson 1: Drawing the First Outfit - Hippie Outfit: Hello Skillshare learners. Thank you for joining
us for less than one. Now what we're going to
do over the course of this in the next two lessons, is we're going to
go ahead and design outfits for these
three characters. That let's go ahead and
just jump right into it. I'm gonna go ahead
and lower the opacity that I have for my characters. Should we get started
on this one here? Now what I like to do
before I start drawing is just pull up a combination
of Google and Pinterest. Just start looking at outfits. Oftentimes what I'll do, I won't have the full outfit in mind by the time I've gotten started and I'll
pick one piece of the outfit that I find
really interesting. And I'll start to build the
rest of the outfit around. So in this case, while I was
looking through Pinterest, I found this really
interesting shirt and over shirt combo that I thought it looked
really interesting. So I'm going to start there. We'll slowly designed
the rest of the outfit just around that starting. Go ahead. Just start sketching. Could have a shirt. Now, in this class, I won't go a bunch into
how to place wrinkles. Then we'll go over it
a little bit though. We just didn't have
dedicated class and that just makes you let me know. And I'll get that
added to my roster of classes on my list today. So company idea
behind this outfit, at least this top or
we're getting started, is we have started
this tank top. And then we have this really loose over
shirt kind of thing. It's kinda goes from one shoulder to just
sort of like this. Now, it wasn't like
this in the reference, but I actually want to make
this more heavier material. I think that might look
convinced or someone what that will mean as I draw it isn't just want to incorporate
quite so many wrinkles and to help convey that
nice thick luck. Actually because we're going
to go for a secret. Look. How does the arm just a
little bit more like that? Down. Again because we're doing a
bit of a thicker material. The big difference it
will find when doing thinner materials are
thicker material. So the thinner material, say if we have a cloth that is draped over this sphere here, you'll start to
have these points. The taper down from the top. Just like this. And then near the bottom, it will really start to
all kinda gather up. You'll start to get a
lot of these subfolders. On top of that. You get that with more
of a thinner material. Now, you go for more
of a thicker material. Then click on a
woman, it's sweater. You didn't get a lot
less of those phones. You'll still get some
is still a clock, but it might look like this was more of a solid
shape here at the bottom. So because we're going to do this shape is a
thicker material. It will really hold its form. Unlock that. I'm going to go for and
mostly fall asleep. Though it'll end here
two-thirds of the way on the hearing here. Seems like a good place to
go ahead and just start sketching in the sleeve. Now, one of the things to
remember when drawing close is that the clothe
isn't just going to end on this line here. You got to have some way. So if you think about t-shirts, special character, well, a t-shirt doesn't just end line. You get this little scene
here around the end. Now if you offer a
real cartoony look, something like
this will suffice, but especially for more of
the direction I'm going, It's still more stylized. We do want some of the clothes
that some detail in them. So we might see
something like this. And we even add in a moment Stitch pattern on it. So as we draw our character, what to incorporate in
similar kind of idea. So we'll start with just
this little like color band. It's more elastic so it's
sticking to her arm a bit more. And then we'll just start adding in the rest of the sleeve. Again because I'm going
for a thicker material, a lot of the folds are going
to be much bigger shapes. A lot less of these
small wrinkles, you get a looser material. Additionally, because this
is a thicker material, it's holding its
shape a bit more. He's a seat. We have our arms
silhouette here and we're actually coming in
a decent bit off of that is we add in the shape Judah thicker
material really holding. Go ahead and move down
to the other sleeve. Make sure that we add in the same pill log mixture
linked through it's the same. Alright. And just like that,
sleeves there. Now, go ahead and continue
the material now the ribcage down right here. I'll add one, Marjorie gray here. I'm past that. I'm just going to really try to keep the wrinkles to a minimum. Lending the silhouette, the
thick shape really carry it. Here at the bottom of it. I also want to I want to do a similar thing that
I did for the arms. Come down here and I'll add just this little elastic
band here at the end, helps it keep its shape. Just like that. Then go ahead and find a
source layer real quick, see what it's looking like. Looking pretty good though
I want to add just a little bit more about ear. Feel like the shape of the
breast is getting lost. Alright, perfect. Now again, because it's a thicker shape, we just want to be really subtle with those lines right there. Just enough to imply the shape without fully outlining it. Going back to our character,
we can take a look. You can start to add in some little lines
for the anatomy here. Well, we're not going to
be adding a third and top. Just like some. I like to
do this when I'm sketching. I like to add in just some lines that
indicate the difference of the material on any
indicated somewhere. There might be for the
shirt here, under shirt. I'm actually just
going to add just like some cross-section
across the shirt. It works very similar
to spring tones. Where even though
I'm not coloring the whole thing in
the continuous lines, give us almost the illusion
of a darker color. It can just really helped the difference of color
and different material. Really concise. Alright, perfect. Now starting with this
as a beginning point, will go ahead and
go from here as to what the next part of the outfit I'm thinking. Colleague flared out down here. So sketch it in right here. I'm going to start with the top here and I'm
working my way down What I like to start with
doing what I'm doing. Kansas specially though, really anything that
has wrinkles in it is like to start with the bigger
silhouette of the piece. And then from there
I'll go through, I'll really try to define where the wrinkles that way as
in defining the shape. I'm not needing to
worry about that. These will get to you then. Actually layering. I don't like this. I don't know when the cease to
be pretty popular style. More flared out chains. Then again here. Just go ahead at that shape. I see we got pretty decent. So what? Go ahead and go back through and start adding some details. So for instance, which
button right here? That right along here. There would be a
same pool already. Belt lives and the belt. Now let's character here she's not going to be wearing a belt. But we will need to
add in the belt loops. Again, as you work in
designing your characters, I made sure you're
using reference. I know it can be easy to say
y-naught James look like. But there's honestly a
lot more detail you'll find within there
that you'll have forgotten or never necessarily
noticed until you're trying to make the drawing of them look as
realistic as possible. So working through here, there's actually a seam on
both sides of the genes here. Now only be able to see
one seeing her leg. But we can go and start drawing. I'll start just a
line for the scene. Makes sure it follows
the contour first shape. Just like that leg. You only see just this
little dip right here. Nanga with second line. Just a bit smaller. Sort of finish out that she had and just follow
that all the way. Now, go ahead and start
adding belt loops. Now, james will have chew
belt loops here in front. Then we'll have one
on each side here. Right after that is where
you'll get the front pockets. So for this one over here, I actually want to
go ahead and move that just this way a little bit. Make it a bit more
room for the pocket. Pockets here. Then. Just like that, you can go ahead and add
some fancy additions. So some buttons here. Some have smaller
pocket watch pockets inside their pockets. Those just like some additional and you can even add in our phone in the
pocket if you wanted to. That's looking pretty good. Alright, so let's go
here and start adding some verb wrinkles to be. Now one of the main spots. You'll get wrinkles. Here. Joins. So it some name that is flaring out here. We can get some down here. Actually raise facts
and the FirstName, we can get some down
here now remember, denim is a pretty
thick material. So what ever? Wrinkles, we get
pretty understated. When you do almost like
this triangle shape here. Being add-ins, crosshatching
here to emphasize it, will do a similar shape
on the other side. As far as the genes
guts out all I'll do just some basic wrinkles
here, but that's about it. Now from here we can add and basic things that a little
bit of personalities. So these things like
add bracelet up here. We had the other name. Some of the things to think about as you add
stuff like watching. People, oftentimes where they're watch on their
non-dominant hand. So you know what dominant hand your character
is put on the non-dominant. Otherwise, you're
basically saying what this character
is dominant hand is. So in this case, now we've put
the Watson her right hand, which means chances are that
she's left-hand dominant. So especially if
you're designing characters for your OSCEs, then that's a good thing
to make sure, you know, as you choose things such
as much armed watching. Right? Now. Lastly, we have the shoe. Now, I think I'm going to do just some simple slider to follow the
contour of the foot. Just a little better than than just a little bit on
the platform that it's on. Did the same sign
comes to a point? This just makes sure that replicate it as
closely as we can. Alright, perfect. In ways that we've
created our first outfit. This point, you can go through, clean up any lines you want to. I think going to use this
for your official liner. From here you can go
ahead and add a color underneath it. Start painting. Otherwise, you can
go ahead and move into your line art stage. Thinking things such as that. You've been enjoying going
through the section, going through this outfit. Make sure to join us
for the next lesson. Go over another. I hope to see you there
3. Lesson 2: Drawing the Second Outfit - Goth Outfit: Hello Skillshare learners. Thank you for tuning in
for our second character, Lake last time what I'm going
to do is I'm going to start with one sort of
idea of an outfit, piece of the outfit. And then we'll go from there. Now, what I'm thinking for this character is
maybe more of a goth, almost like alternative kinda
look understated enough, but kinda going for
that kind of thing. So we're going to start
we're going to give her I'm thinking a crop pop with then like some fish
least under it. Go and start with that, thinking a tank top, crop top. And then probably for
the the fishnet. Look. We'll go ahead and
have that have sleeves and will extend
past the crop top. Now the big thing I want
to make sure as you do, this character don't lose
is these nice curves here. Some of it will get
with these curves is actually we'll start seeing a lot of wrinkles
start to gather. Since this is a bit
of a tighter shirt. Just like that. So we'll have a wrinkle
coming from here. Additionally, there'll be
a bit of tension here. Press star, so we'll go ahead and just add some
wrinkling there. And then we're just
gonna go ahead and add in stitching here at the end. We'll keep relatively
simple down. Alright, now is that in place? We can start adding in fish now, like I said, I think I
want to do sleeves for it. Defining where the
sleeves are going to. Go ahead and just add a
bit of texture to this. Same on the other side. Make sure, especially as
you're adding in the clothes, that it follows the
perspective of the arm. So if we have
cylinder like this, we can use this for our arm. We want to make sure
that whatever closing we do is going to follow
the same perspective. So if we do something
like this and this is supposed to be the
front of the sleeve. This, it's going to
look all around. Want to make sure follow
through with the perspective. As we enter. As we sketch. It. Just makes sure that you do that for those of
you who follow. So my other courses, you might notice that I like to add these contour lines
on my characters. On a lot of the reason
I do that is to help me see the 3D shape. That way as I start giving
the characters clothing, I'm able to keep that
consistency there. Alright, now that I've
placed in the sleeves, go ahead and fill in the rest of the silhouette shape here. And then I'm going to just
depend on the color here. Where the rest of the undershirt that we'd
start adding in the shape. Now there's a lot
of ways that you can do a shirt like this. You could do straight lines, like less than, then. Go back through the
other way round making sure to follow the
curve, the shape. Additionally, you could
do more curvy lines. That's almost creates like
a Spider-Man type luck For this one, I want to go
with these straight lines. I just kind of like the
look and spacing of a print and make sure
as you go through it, keep it consistent
throughout your character. Like so it's the
sketching phase, so don't worry about
being too clean. I like to keep these just
real loose like that. Now I'm actually going to go
ahead and have it extend out just a little bit with the sort of like ripped
look here at the end. Go back and forth that and then continue that pattern across like so. Now one of the big principles, it's really helpful when
designing outfits is having areas of interests and having areas where
the eyes can rest. So for instance,
this pattern we have here is a good example
of an area of interests. Especially if we hide
this layer underneath. You can see the shirt
here is an area of rest. There's not any complex patterns that our brains
seem to interpret. Just looking at it,
you're able to see a plane look so it helps
balance each other out. Because you design your outfits, made sure to kind of go with
that in mind as you do them. So now, moving over here, I'm thinking, probably
give her bracelet. Just to add some
interest on this. I'll go ahead and add
some crosshatching. And then I'm thinking actually at the little metal, just add a few lines, really accentuate that
metal work with a bit of a highlight. Yep. Looks good. And these arms, the
rest of them can add as additional plane space
without anything happening. While things like this brace and the bracelet over here and
serve as points of interests. Them. They'll had finished
the silhouette there, like so. And we'll come back
to the handover that alright, moving down to her bottoms, I'm thinking of
going with I like jean shorts with tights underneath and then
maybe some high heels. So we'll go and start
with the genes. The genes almost always
like to start here. Defining with a mill. The shape is just really
working out the silhouette. Now, just like my
previous character, I'm not going to go with a belt. It's kinda like for genes on
women going without belts. I think it's got a nice
stylish look to it. But unlike my
previous character, where it's still much
more, I've put together. I want to go for
maybe more rich. Maybe the bottoms of the
legging or the legs are ripped. Maybe there's some rip
in the actual pant leg. Kinda look like that. Obviously here's a button
via same right here. And same across bikes. Bill head. Add a little highlight to
the button. Might not. Actually gonna go
ahead and make this. Actually this is a light button. I think I want to make these Genes black. So we'll leave the
button as some contrast. There. I'll start adding
in the belt loops. If the squirrel simple
doesn't need to be any complex shape. Just make sure that
whatever you do for genes, that you make it the
same on both sides. Alright, perfect. Now I think for these, we will have them
write up pretty high. So make sure that you do this. You continue to follow the
perspective of the legs. So for instance,
this leg here on the left is raised
and so we actually end up with shape that
goes upwards like cell. Whereas on the other thing, was it being straight down and we end up with more
of a downward shape. As you're creating characters, make sure you keep it a nine. So for instance, here this
goes up, this goes down. If I were to try to
make this go up, it just wouldn't look right. It would look weird. So
make sure you're following. Foreshortening. As you do that. That'll be go ahead. We'll add in a bit of a shape to imply stomach is falling down, so we don't want
it to be too much. Obviously, she's a
bit of a a woman, so there is a bit of
that stomach there but nothing too exact. You don't want that to
be the emphasis of it. And look at this. I do actually think I want to ride the genes of
action a little bit higher. Right here. I still want the
belly button now. Just how many bit
higher like that? We can provide just a bit of an additional empty
space on the genes here. Alright, perfect. Now from here we can start
adding in some of the details. For instance, the she'd be a seam down on the
pant legs here. We'll have pockets
on both sides. We'll make sure
we give some good shapes these pockets and they can mess pocket. Thanks, going to have
a phone sticking out. Like so it'll go here. Which will then push
into the genes under it. Cranium bit of a shape will give us some
wrinkles coming off. Go ahead and just make
sure we defined in the shape appear but more. How can erase them if
you want under that? Just like so. Now on the other
side, Let's go ahead and add in some leaves. Seems a little button here. I think I'll leave that
pocket everything. Hi. I'm looking at this. Tommy. I'm actually going to bring
it up just a little bit. Since the gentleman will
give decent support thing. Bring up just a bit. This will be great, especially
because it means we get a bit more space to
show off the legs So I don't want it to
do a bit of a rift look when the genes will have
the bottoms and the ribs, almost like she took just standard genes and
cut them into shorts. So same, neither sign. Great thing about rips. They don't need to be
too concrete a shape. Especially if you're end up, end up going for a much
more painterly style. So theoretically I would even utilize this sketch and creating her as my
final line art, depending on the style
and up going for. If I end up going for more
of a comic book style, when it goes through it
with some black ink. Though, for something like this, I may just put the color
under it and start painting. Alright, so we've got
some good scenes. Bottom here. You can go ahead and try to add some additional
interests to it now. So I'm thinkin bit of a rip here, sketch in shape. And I'm thinking one
coming from the side here that way it's
not too symmetrical. Just like so. Go ahead. Sketch in the belly button. There we go. That's
looking pretty good. Now I mentioned I wanted
to do tights for her, which is basically just
skin tight and it's done. I have a difference in color. The way I like to show
this with a sketch. Go ahead. Stand in the outline. Like so. Come back to the feet. So I'm looking at fancy shoes, so draw over that quite yet. Now, what I'll do
here to show it in the sketch of this is
gonna be my final line art. I won't do this, but with
this just working as a sketch is without
regard to the shape. Simply add in some
crosshatching. Now for this, you won't actually follow the shape of the form. All we're doing here is
signifying this is not skin, It's a bit of a darker color. Acting similar to how
we would list screened. Go darker. Green cross hatch
the other way lakes. So perfect. And then just around the
joints you can add just some very subtle I really need me
subtle very subtle wrinkled. It is still a material
to type material, for the most part, is just
going to hug your body's. There won't be much. But especially
around the joints, there can be just a little bit. Just like so. All right. That's
looking pretty good. I'm gonna go ahead and jump back up here again real quick. Just quickly sketch in. And like last time, simply be leaving the
face and hear blank. You are interested in a class on the base, hair, all that. Let me know and I can see
about doing a class on it. Then we'll move down to here. And I'm thinking high heels. So had a insurer still follow the general shape? Start to add nice shape. Like that. I like that It's a
nice silhouette. Curve. Just a little bit more. Let's go out and
work and getting the same on the other side. At that nice curve. Back out. Nice and concrete. On this invisible ground. Here we go. We can go ahead and
extend the cross hatching tights
that out left foot. Like so. In here we go, we can
go ahead and hide this character c before outfit. You know, when it comes back, it's color here and
I'm gonna go ahead and fill that in
as a solid black. Doesn't have to be perfect. Let's just start to distinguish. Separate. Alright, perfect. So from here, what you would do, you would go head
if you're inking, I eat anchor and then you'd
move into the color phase. Now if you're interested
in this last character, make sure to tune in
for the next lesson. I'm thinking more
of a sporting look. It's kind of got golfer know, kinda hippie look
in this first one. More of a goth alternative
in the second one. So finally, I think
I'm going to end off with a sporty look, so make sure to stay
tuned for that. I hope to see you
there until next time. Keep John guys
4. Lesson 3: Drawing the Third Outfit - Tomboy Outfit: Hello Skillshare learners. Thank you for joining us for
the third and final lesson. In this lesson, we'll
go ahead and take on this last character and
design a font output for her. No, I mentioned in the last
lesson that I was thinking of going for more
of a sporty look. I did a bit of looking
between lessons, found some fun references. I really liked the
idea with going with a sporty overall look like
sneakers, a ball cap. So we'll go ahead
and go that route. Should we get started? I'm just going to start
designing her overalls. So I saw one that
I really liked. It's kind of a style where
you only have one strap and the other strap is often results
in kinda look like this. You can even tell what
I'm trying to do. They're a lot like the
one flap hanging down. So that seems like it
might be a fun way to go. So go ahead and start with
just kinda the waist band. Even though their overall, I found some styles with waste man still that I
thought looked really nice. It seems like it helps
create a nice shape. So we'll go ahead
and go with that. Than actual overall,
overall part over here. Go across to about here. About here I figure folds over, tapers down just like that. Now we can add just
a little buckle here for the other strap. The overall, the
shoulder straps just go about the middle there
and then taper back down. Now because it's denim, it won't hug the brass, but instead it will have
about one standard seem right here where old band bit
smoother than that, but just kinda like that. I think I'm actually
going to this part, hug the outside of
her more like this. Then sketch the strap, just adjusted their perfect. We'll come back to that more but later detail in a bit more, but that's a good
starting point. I think you've seen in
the previous videos, I like to get just a
really solid silhouette first before I move
into detail in it. So if I decide to
change anything, it's a lot easier. Alright, so from here, let's go ahead and finish
defining the shape overalls. So this won't actually
have a button. So just kinda leave
it. There wasn't a belt buckles either, but I am going to add
just a few seam lines here kinda stylistically as
if there were belt buckles. And then from there I'll put in some pockets on
the pant leg here. And we can even put a pocket
just up here. Alright. Continuing to follow
the silhouette. Go ahead. Adding the legs. Right about here. I'll just put in some real simple wrinkles. Dislike. So we'll come back for some
more of the detailing on it, like the seams and everything
which will really give it just a much more
realistic look. Make it look more like James. No head Just add some wrinkles here. Where next down to the
bottom of the foot. Gout. Got a good base silhouette
shape there. From there. Let's go ahead and
move up to the shirt. Now. Now I'm thinking a tank top. I actually found
some really nice. I like striped shirts, which I really liked
the look of it. I think actually how
I could draw this. I don't know what the
style of shirts called. But instead of connecting like normal tank top or t-shirt, just ties behind the neck. Like how that style looks. Just kinda creates for a
tighter look on the strap, which I quite like. So we'll do like that. Just let it hug there and the overall strap obvious and we'll go over
it on this side. And then we'll just
do a super deep neck, but a bit of a
deeper neck kind of accentuate that supporting look. And then I want to
come to about here. Again, really going
first 40 looks I want a bit of a midriff showing. Not much, just kinda like
to get the idea across it, like a ventilating heat. And honestly it's summer
here, it's super hot. So it's just kinda kind of
outfit that's on the mind. Maybe come winter. I'll do another one of these. I'll create some winter outfits. Alright, let's go ahead and
hide our initial sketch. Take a look. It's definitely look in solid. Let's go ahead and start adding
in some of the detailing. So you can come in here stretching these pockets
a bit more form. Obviously, she's
holding her phones. No phone in the pocket, though. We could have like a
key chain poking out this little tag ring on it. Just a bit of a bulge here to
indicate something inside. But being her keys like that. Again, just a bit more sporty. We could give her a watch like a smartwatch she uses to track
her miles, which swapped. Go ahead and do that here. Let's see what else can we do? Just really enhance
it sporty look. Also for one, you
can go head out at seen down here just like the genes look a
bit more realistic. Don't really seem on this side. Looking pretty good. On I'm thinking IRR button. Now, obviously we're in
the days of wireless. So give her a wireless earbuds really up to date with
the newest things. It's nice probably not
wearing a necklace. So we'll go ahead
and forego that. Maybe she's got a
tapped to over here. So let's go ahead and
define in her arm. And I didn't plan for a
tattoo when I was thinking of this character sounding
references for that. But, you know, we did do some simple EB. Got some heart debt to Like that and maybe
the whole thing. I was going to try the whole
thing inside of a heart. I didn't like that though. Just a few hearts there and maybe Scott them
banned as well. Something like this. And maybe it's a
little scenery thing. So it could be mountains, sunset, something like that. Then this faded a bit. It looks more tattoo Lake Road, cactuses in the desert. Cool. I like that. It's kind of an attempt to, you can give it a
little bit of color. Let it stand out as a tet
to be the same up here, the heart's kind of cute. Alright, let's go ahead
and finish adding in the rest of our shape here. We'll come back to the head. I'm thinking ball, ball cap is looking pretty good. If I do say so
myself, which I do. Go ahead and just
sketch in the phone. The camera right there. Looking good. Let's go ahead and
do the ball cap. Alright, perfect. And last let's go ahead
and do the shoes. I'm thinking probably sneakers. So we can go ahead and start adding in the silhouette
of the shape. Adenylyl platform sneakers or you don't get that little
bottom shape there. I'm thinking Velcro. Hold it on. Velcro. Velcro straps. It's a fun look. Hey, don't love how the
shape and the front look. I'm just going to
redraw that real quick. Okay, that looks better. All right. Let's go ahead and
move to this one now. Again, let's just
start with silhouette or the shape doesn't
need to follow whatever foot you
drew perfectly. Not a big deal. Alright, perfect. Looking good. I now I turned my
Canvas all the time. I hope it's not too
annoying to look at, but I think it's important to
get the best line you can. Now oftentimes, rotating our canvas a bit
will help us get that line. All right. Looks good. Last let's go ahead. I won't be doing any
facial detailing. Let's go ahead and sketch
in the shape of the face. Like so. Adding the
directional lines. You can go ahead and hide
our original sketch. And here you go, we have our third and final
character. You enjoyed these. Make sure to stay tuned
for the next video where I'll go ahead and line out with the class project is,
I'll see you there.
5. Final Lesson: Class Project: Hello and welcome back,
Skillshare Linares. Thank you very much
for joining us through this class is we
drew these three characters. If you've made it this far, then I want to go ahead and
give you my class assignment. Your class assignment
here is draw three characters and then
to design outfits on them. If you're more
interested in learning about the outfit aspect
and practicing that, definitely feel free to grab some characters that
have been drawn a line, draw the outfits over that. Anything right
there. You can take old drawings they have
for the outfits on there. But make sure you create
three different outfits, if possible, styled
differently as well. So different outfits,
goth outfit, sporty, girly would have you go ahead and put some
emphasis on that. And then make sure
to post them in the assignment space down
below or the project space. Let's take a look,
give you a critique. Needed some fun
visibility on that. If you enjoyed this class, make sure to take a look at my other classes on my profile, you might find
something you enjoy and hope to see you guys around.
Samuel Ben-Ezra, Artist and IT Technician
