Learn To Add Clothing To Your Characters | Comics - Manga - Character Design - Loomis

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Designing a great character is one thing. But making sure you can quickly draw it again and again is another!

A key part of drawing comics with your own characters... or re-drawing your favourite fan art... is knowing how to sketch in the figure with all the special elements that make up the character.

Often we need to both quickly pose and get the proportions right... but also know that all of the important elements of clothing and accessories are there too.

The character is made up from their base anatomy.. what they wear and how they hold themselves. So sketching all three at the same time is key.

In this video I go over some tips and advice for how to do this. And demonstrate what it looks like based on some of the comic characters I have had to draw over and over again.

This is something you can think about once you start learning the basic anatomical proportions and understand how to quickly pose characters using stick figures or 'Mannequins' (that word just means puppet! which is a great way to think about our characters).

I have talked about this idea in some of the other videos on the channel:

If you want to learn about the techniques I am using based on the Loomis Method you can check out these videos:

Building The Figure -    • Learning To Draw The Figure From Imag...  
Posing The Figure -    • Learning to Pose Your Character Drawi...  
Different Body Types -    • Learning to Draw Different Body Types...  

Drawing an Action Pose -    • Practice Drawing An Action Pose | Dem...  

With most types of stylised types of art - There is often a mix of structure and perspective and technical drawing.... combined with symbols and abstract features.

Once you get good at blocking in proportion and posing with the Loomis Method you can use it to suit your own style.

It's just a tool you can use to help you draw cool stuff!

Happy Drawing!

Tim Mcburnie

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