Buttons, Buckles, and Pockets..oh my!

Hi everyone.

OK! I've mastered the basics..whipping out good clothes and sheer clothes...now...how do I make belts, pockets, clasps, buttons, zippers, all those great things I see on such phenominal designers as Chip Midnight, Canimal, ect? I want to make jeans and jean jackets and the like, but I can't fathom how to get the 'patterns' for these to look right with all the added trims and pockets, ect.

Any advice anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated.

Blah. No answers.

Sure and you're all a bunch of meanies. I suppose all of you good clothesmakers out there learned how to make pockets without ever once at all ever asking someone else for tips or how tos?

Wow. God graced you.

He actually did.


Really, its a matter of artistic effort, there are people who have really realistic photosourced looking stuff and people like Nylon and Toast who have highly stylized hand drawn stuff, in both cases it looks great but different approaches are taken. Making cloths is like painting a picture on your avatar, lighting and shading are important. The templates tell you where everything will end up, its up to you to decide everything else. What really helps me is I made a shirt out of the template and wear it for reference, you can see where all the lines are on an actual body.

I think many people, myself included, use source images. What this means is looking at pictures of actual cloths. For example when i made some mens oxford shirts I used several pictures to see what it looks like. What can be really important is the highlights and shading these objects have and produce on the clothing. For example the collar was really hard to draw and get right but looking at examples of other peoples clothing and real pictures I was able to pull it off to some degree.

Hope that helps some.

That helps very much, thank you.

No wonder my stuff looks like nosh compared to most..shading and highlighting...

I'm no good at that.

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