It's a Wrap!: How to Draw Fabric Folds for Realistic Clothing and Drapery - Paperback

by Benjamin J. Hummel (Author)

HAVE FUN LEARNING TO SEE FOLDS SO YOU CAN DISCOVER HOW TO DRAW CLOTHES + MORE!
Benjamin Hummel's "It's a Wrap!" will teach you how to draw clothes and fabric folds. Beginners, Art Students, Kids, Teens, Adults, and Professional Illo Artists can use this guide to learn how to create realistic clothing and drapery, learn sketchbook rendering for your pencil drawing ideas.

• {EASIER THAN YOU THINK} Effortlessly learn to draw clothing fabrics and lifelike folds! This is a FUN, easy-to-read, comprehensive art of the fold guide on drawing and rendering clothes folds for any art student, including beginners, kids who love art, adults, and even art professionals! Practical tips to learn how to draw what you see!


• {OBSERVATION KEYS} Accurately drawing drapery fabric and drawing clothes will be a mystery solved! In this conversational, funny, and interactive teacher-to-artist workbook, you will learn instruction about the fold structure and how fabric wrinkles and how clothes drape around a form. Learn to observe your subject and how to sketch for beginners! Find out why a fabric wrinkle behaves and drapes the way it does so you can realistically use your pencil to shade your drawing.


• {APPLY TO ALL ART TYPES}Your new perspective will help you to recognize the different types of dimensional folds for your drawings and translate them to your paper. Best practices to immediately start drawing better folds no matter what media you are using, be it graphite pencils in your sketchbook, pen, and ink for anime characters, colored pencils for art therapy, or painting portraits of people with the latest fashion apparel. This how to shade art book will help you understand the form of moving fabrics so you can render your sketches, color coloring books, and finish your paintings dimensionally. Impress your friends, followers, and art teachers.


• {INTERACTIVE WORKBOOK PAGES} Drawing worksheet sketchbook pages, illustrated sketch diagrams, and more ideas on how to draw ordinary life are included! Breathe life and perspective into your clothed figure drawings, still-lifes, and landscapes with realistic drawings of fabrics and drapery.


• {ART TEACHER APPROVED} Excellent Drawing Instruction for drawing fabric! "A must-have for any educator or artist beginner. Benjamin Hummel makes it very easy to understand how to sketch folds. Short explanations and lots of images to look at help break things down to their basics."- Brizida Ahrnsbrak Online Chair of Illustration Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design.

Author Biography

Benjamin Hummel's light-hearted illustrations have appeared in numerous children's books, textbooks, magazines, and greeting cards. However, his true passion is education. When he is not teaching at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Benjamin writes books on drawing, illustration, and art. He is currently developing lessons on drawing hair and fur, drawing hands and feet, drawing children, and perspective drawing. What makes Benjamin's story unique is the fact that he lives with a debilitating autoimmune disease which resulted in him receiving two liver transplants at the age of fifteen. As a result of his renewed lease on life, Benjamin dedicates his work to the joy of living. To overcome his daily physical challenges, he creates art that encourages others to live rich and full lives. Benjamin documents his life, illustrations, process shots, and art tips on Instagram @hummelillustration.