Crumpled napkin

Crumpled napkin

By DoctorPlatypus | Doctor Platypus | 12 Nov 2020


Last post I had drawn a man sleeping on top of a yellow duvet, and I was not entirely satisfied with the way the fabric looked. Or, more specifically, I was not able to capture all of the wrinkles and folding in the duvet as well as I hoped, and in many cases I gave up, so the duvet, while I guess it looks all right as far as it goes, is not as interesting in its shape and folding as I had hoped it would be. This is all to say that today I decided to practice drawing fabric.

Here's a crumply napkin!

comparison: on right, actual crumpled napkin - on left, drawing in pencil

I am happier with this than I was with the duvet. I still see a few place where I could do better, where the shading I drew does not actually translate in my mind into the actual folds going on in the napkin. So, lots of practice still needed. 

Thanks for looking!

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DoctorPlatypus
DoctorPlatypus

Current projects: writing a literary history book about Victorian and Edwardian fiction as successor to the medieval dream vision genre. Learning to draw. Slooooowly learning the fancier ins and outs of the roll20 VTT.


Doctor Platypus
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