How to paint realistic fabric folds | FULL TUTORIAL

Join Mark Waller in studio and learn how to paint realistic fabric folds! The process of painting fabric can be approached from a few different angles, but Mark has blocked in his darkest darks and lightest lights and then built up the mid-tones before coming back with the highlights in this demonstration of how to paint fabric.

This is an awesome exercise involving blending techniques and dry brushing, and is a fun way to hone your gradation skills, which is an essential foundational skill for painting realism with acrylics (and painting realistically in general)!

We have sped up parts of this video to keep it interesting, but you can always slow down those sections if you need :)

Mark uses both Atelier Free Flow and Atelier Interactive Artists Acrylics for this demonstration. He’s using an old canvas that has already been painted with a sky gradation. So you can use any old canvas that you want!

Atelier Free Flow:
Carbon Black
Titanium White
French Ultramarine Blue
Dioxazine Purple

Atelier Interactive:
Dioxazine Purple
French Ultramarine Blue
Pthalo Blue
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Burnt Umber

Brushes:
Flats size 12, 8, 6

Canvas:
Any canvas you have for practising!

Chapters:

00:00 - Let's paint fabric folds!
00:26 - Draw in the background fabric shapes
01:12 - Mix the blues for the fabric folds first
01:46 - Paint these shadow areas in
02:15 - Putting lightest highlight areas in
03:35 - Back to darks
05:13 - Starting with the mid-tones
08:41 - Back to darks again
10:39 - Back to lights!
11:03 - Adding background context
13:14 - Options for painting realistic fabric
14:16 - Softening the darker transitions
16:03 - Adding a lighter transition colour
18:49 - Adding a lighter transition colour again
20:28 - Lightening the transitions further
23:53 - How to build up the realism in your fabric folds

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Mark uses Atelier Free Flow Artists Acrylics and Atelier Interactive Artists Acrylics by Chroma Australia.

Mark uses Micador for Artists Future and series 1300 brushes (amongst others, usually whatever is within reach). Micador is a fantastic Aussie company doing their best for the environment. For more info on their sustainability efforts see https://micador.com.au/green_earth

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