Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery

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Summary: Create lively, realistic clothing & drapery in your drawings
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This is an excellent *solutions manual* for the artist who draws human figures or includes fabrics in his or her drawings. If you already draw, and you want to create dynamic fabrics and clothing in your work, this book is for you. The study of wrinkles and drapery in this text very impressive, and was exactly what I was looking for.

***Note: If you don't already know how to draw, this book won't be of much help, as no drawing techniques are included to show you *how* to draw these wrinkles. Some basic drawing knowledge is needed, and assumed. Used with other drawing technique books, however, I think even the beginning art student could get some good theories, understanding and ideas out of this book.***

What makes clothing look natural and lively is how it flows and folds with the body when you sit, stand and move. This text explains how fabric flows with the body and naturally folds in a variety of different situations.

Chapters cover how the body moves and how its movement and positioning effect clothing. Chapters also cover the various types of wrinkles found in clothing and other draped fabric, including:

- direct thrust wrinkles (wrinkles created when the body extends and pulls on the clothing),
- bend wrinkles (seen when the body bends and twists, particularly on arms and legs),
- crossing wrinkles (wrinkles in a zig-zag pattern, coming from two directions, often seen on loose clothing),
- compression wrinkles (outward pulling wrinkles created by crushing or squeezing of fabric),
- fragmentation wrinkles (seen on older, worn fabrics as lasting impressions in the fabric, or when movement is uncertain),
- swag and hanging wrinkles (think drapery, roman clothing, capes, and flowy or heavy dresses),
- trap and closure wrinkles (when a crossing wrinkle traps or blocks off another wrinkle flowing in a different direction),
- flying wrinkles (wrinkles affected by air or wind movement), and
- passive, inert, and lying wrinkles (flowing wrinkles on non-moving fabric).

Lastly, the text briefly but effectively covers wrinkle patterns, and how wrinkles are affected by different textures and types of material.

I think this book does a very effective job of classifying and explaining wrinkles so that their use in drawing makes sense. Its a very good solutions manual to help you achieve realistic looking clothing and drapery. I highly recommend it to the dedicated artist.

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Summary: The best book for drapery, bar none
Review: An excellent _technical_ treatise on how to draw drapery for all levels of artist. This book covers it all, detailing how every wrinkle type is formed and where it flows. A _must have_ for any serious artist.

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Summary: Contents
Review: How a buyer I think that what you need is to know the content of this book and like always, you will have the last word: Contents: -Understand kinetic forces -Direct thrust wrinkles -Bend wrinkles -Crossing wrinkles -Compression wrinkles -fragmentation wrinkles -swag and hanging wrinkles -trap and closure wrinkles -flying wrinkles -Passive,inert and lying wrinkles -wrinkle patters,textures and materials. All explained with male and female figure It has 144 pages Presentation:Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery is latest book in Burne Hogarth's continuing exploration of the problems and solutions involving the study of the human figure.Through a series of extraordinary drawings and diagrams,Hogarth,famous for his "Dynamic" style, shows how to depict wrinkles,folds,and drapery.His basic idea is that an accurate rendering of wrinkle patterns depends on understanding how the actions of a figure provoke any material.Thoroughly covering a subject often overlooked,this book is a landmark in the art instruction field,both for its clear expression of a hitherto difficult-to explain topic and for its informative and entertaining illustrations. Copyright 1995.

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Summary: A huge step forward
Review: I got this book about five years ago in an art store, and it's had a huge impact on my drawing. Making clothes respond naturally to a human body's shape and movement is one of the big challenges to artists, and this book gives tons of examples of different kinds of wrinkles caused by different movements and kinds of cloth. For example, compression wrinkles caused by stiff cloth which holds its shape and pipe organ drapery caused by heavy thick cloth such as a curtain. It's also very good for training your eye to notice things in real life, so that you can go beyond just the examples in the book. The illustrations are large and detailed and very clear. Even though the style's a little dated, the rules still apply. I'd recommend this to any aspiring artist.

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Summary: I neglected Hogarth as a teacher for too long!
Review: I ordered this book along with "Drawing Dynamic Hands," also by Hogarth (it's excellent as well). I'd been doing mostly figure study, and it was time to make the jump to clothing. I realized I had no idea what a wrinkle looked like (you'd never guess that from my clothes!).

This is a really great book! It's always easier to practice using interpretations that have been filtered through the eyes of other artists. Hogarth's style is exaggerated, but this is exactly what makes this book a great learning tool and reference.

I do understand how someone could be put-off by this type of illustration, but I feel the principals shown in the book can be applied to other styles as well. I happen to like this style of illustration -- it's probably nostalgia on my part; I grew up reading comics illustrated by Burne Hogarth -- but I was worried that it was inadequate for learning fine-art. I find now that I was wrong about Hogarth as a teacher. His books have helped me improve my technique, without changing my style overmuch. His exaggerations illustrate and teach the concepts well, without requiring one to duplicate them.

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Summary: I neglected Hogarth as a teacher for too long!
Review: I ordered this book along with "Drawing Dynamic Hands," also by Hogarth (it's excellent as well). I'd been doing mostly figure study, and it was time to make the jump to clothing. I realized I had no idea what a wrinkle looked like (you'd never guess that from my clothes!).

This is a really great book! It's always easier to practice using interpretations that have been filtered through the eyes of other artists. Hogarth's style is exaggerated, but this is exactly what makes this book a great learning tool and reference.

I do understand how someone could be put-off by this type of illustration, but I feel the principals shown in the book can be applied to other styles as well. I happen to like this style of illustration -- it's probably nostalgia on my part; I grew up reading comics illustrated by Burne Hogarth -- but I was worried that it was inadequate for learning fine-art. I find now that I was wrong about Hogarth as a teacher. His books have helped me improve my technique, without changing my style overmuch. His exaggerations illustrate and teach the concepts well, without requiring one to duplicate them.

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Summary: Awkward and dated
Review: Making fabric look realistic requires knowing how it lays on figures and objects. As in all his books, Burne instructs with clear and beautifully drawn illustrations. They are easy to copy or use for reference. Although one would want to observe from life as well, this provides a fuller understanding to better enable the student to paint and draw clothes and draperies.

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Summary: A great helper for drawing drapery, and clothes
Review: Obviously, nothing can replace the old-fashioned method of going out and observing wrinkles as they appear in the real world. If that is your intention, this book can help tremendously by giving you a clue on what to look for as you're studying cloth. Also, this book is fantastic for teaching you how wrinkles appear if you'll be drawing from memory.

Topics include drawing compression wrinkles, crossing wrinkles, flying wrinkles, swag and hanging wrinkles, bend wrinkles, passive, inert, and lying wrinkles,... as well as a section on understanding kinetic forces which may prove to be the most helpful to you.

Also, the drawings are awesome and have given me a new-found respect for Brune. His "Light and Shade" book is also remarkable.

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Summary: Don't dismiss this as just for comic wanna bes
Review: Whether you like his style or not, the lessons are great. These lessons could be applied to any style of art. Now I want more of his books. He explains how motions would pull wrinkles this way or that way.

Even though the book is about wrinkles and drapery, it has some brilliant studies in muscles. This is a great resource to have on any budding artist's shelves.

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Summary: Can't find this info anywhere else
Review: You absolutely need a good background in human anatomy (i.e. the skeleton, muscles, and nude figure) before tackling this book. That said, I have not seen anyone else describe the rules of how fabric hangs, stretches, and crinkles on the stationary and moving human body (and on furniture). "Lines" on clothing I just thought of as a confusing and arbitrary muddle turn out to be much more systematic than I ever imagined.

He groups wrinkles by the forces exerted to produce them -- direct thrust, bend, crossing, compression (a subclass of crossing wrinkles), fragmentation, swag/hanging, trap/closure, flying, and passive/inert/lying wrinkles. I still don't understand the chapter on fragmentation wrinkles (hence only 4 stars), but all the other categories were clearly described and illustrated. He also notes the differences in wrinkles caused by different thicknesses or textures of fabric.

His examples are heavily influenced by his decades of professional experience in adventure comics (e.g. Tarzan) and period illustration, but the rules they reveal still apply. Fashions change, but how fabric behaves on the body is eternal. Essential.