Drapery & Costume Fundamentals with Ramon Hurtado
$200.00
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Want to take your characters beyond nude figures but clothing seems chaotic and confusing?
In this 8-week class, we’ll learn all about folds, drapery and clothing, while working from a variety of characters in fun period costumes! We’ll start by analyzing different kinds of folds and how they’re created, then we’ll see the loose and tense portions of an outfit interact with the underlying figure. Afterwards, we’ll dive into rendering and materials, and cover fun accessories like shoes and armor! Throughout it all, we’ll discuss simple, effective drawing and painting methods that keep the process fresh and fun.
If you want to understand clothing once and for all, and be able to draw and paint clothed characters, in any style, this is the class for you!
We’ll cover:
- Creating a simple figure mannequin
- Fold and drapery mechanics
- How to identify and emphasize essential folds
- How to depict a variety of materials and costumes
- Simple processes for sketching and final painting
Date & Time: Starts Saturday November 16th, every Saturday at 2:00 PM Eastern US time
Skill level: All skill levels welcome
Tiers: Receive feedback or spectate without homework feedback
Format: 4 hour live class each week with combination of lectures, demos, and feedback. Recordings are generally provided within a couple days of each live session.
Materials: Any digital or traditional mediums. Paintovers will be done digitally
Week 1: Introduction- Mannequin Figure and Form Drawing
Week 2: Fold Mechanics and Dressing the Figure
Week 3: Loose Garments- Pipe, Diaper, Half-Lock Folds
Week 4: Fitted Garments- Spiral, Zig-Zag Folds
Week 5: Complex Garments- Forbidden Folds
Week 6: Materials and Textures
Week 7: Accessories and Shoes
Week 8: Final Character Assignment Critiques
Description
Ramon Hurtado is an oil painter and instructor in subjects including anatomy, figure drawing, and composition, with a particular passion for researching 19th century educational methods. He has lectured at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Safehouse Atelier, California State University- Long Beach, DreamWorks Animation, the Society of Illustrators, Emile Cohl Atelier, the University of Lisbon- Faculty of Fine Arts, Porto Atelier, Art Center College of Design and Grand Central Atelier.
STUDENT EXPERIENCES
“Ramon is a great teacher with vast amounts of knowledge to share and takes the time to give the feedback you need to improve.”
— Tim van Galen
“For years, I remember being so nervous about drawing clothes because of how complex all the different folds and design aspects of costumes seemed. I’d have all these big ideas for wardrobes and sets of costumes, but just get stuck trying to figure out how all the folds would work and just never drew any of the clothes I was looking to. A whole period of sketchbook pages are just full of roughly-constructed nude figures that don’t have clothes because I just dreaded having to figure out folds and drapery! But now, thanks to Ramon, I don’t fear dressing figures anymore: now, I look forward to it!”
— Buddy Baker
“I love that Ramon emphasized that folds aren’t hard rules… Ramon is a great teacher and I hope to take more classes from him here in the future. Also the structure of the school is great as well.”
— Aica