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Ecks Bowman
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Join date: 6 Sep 2006
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05-11-2008 18:25
I was just wondering why all the tutorials that I found to make clothes are for women clothes not men? All the videos, step by step tutorials are on how to make clothes for women.. I, maybe, found one for a button up shirt for men but thats it...
Am I miss something? are there tutorials for men clothes out there that I just can't find? Like a tutorial to make a t-shirt, where to add the shadows and highlight?
thx
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MoxZ Mokeev
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Join date: 10 Jan 2008
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05-11-2008 18:28
Is this the one you found for guys? It's a tutorial that Natalia of Mermaid Diaries created for shirt collars and ties - http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2007/02/day-138-creating-shirt-collars-and-ties.html
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Ecks Bowman
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05-11-2008 18:42
ya I've seen that one but thats just making a collar and a tie I'm talking about tutorials about men shirts, where to put the shading, muscle tone highlights, wrinkles and such... I've seen tutorials like that for women stuff but none for men
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Rolig Loon
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Join date: 22 Mar 2007
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05-14-2008 19:13
Yeah, that's probably true. There aren't as many designers creating men's clothes either. Most of the techniques you need to learn, though, work just as well for men's clothes as they do for women's. If you learn how to make buttons and seams for women, you can make them for men. A wrinkle is a wrinkle, and a fold is a fold regardless of who is wearing clothing. Men and women have muscles in the same places so shading is very much the same except in the chest area. So, do all the women's clothing tutorials and then get yourself a stack of J.C. Penney catalogs (or Land's End, or whatever the postal service dumps free in your mailbox) and study what men's clothing looks like. See where it folds and wrinkles and watch where it stretches. As Yogi Berra said once, you can see a lot just by looking.
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FD Spark
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Join date: 30 Oct 2006
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05-18-2008 13:56
Shirts and clothes are pretty similar regardless of the gender except few places on the body when you're placing like words to back or front of t-shirts on male avatars it looks differently. Lot of it just requires painting on template in 3D and experimenting. I found using Avpainter very helpful understanding the templates better. Also trial and error help too. The ablity to draw and be creative, some basic desire to understand the other art program you using i.e gimp, paintshoppro, photoshop helps too. I still need to do things in Photoshop even with Avpainter. I am learning how to do male bodies and clothes, and little bit of female related stuff. I am realizing one of the reason why female oriented things are often drawn or created more often because there is elements of the male body that are more challenging i.e how to do correct shadows of the muscles in back and chest, correct shadowing and lines of shirt collar and buttons, wrinkles going down the chest, the details in pants. There are other reasons there is more fashion options for female form usually and often it's easier playing with "Barbie" then "Ken" type shapes and some are more programed that certain things are gender specific in design,etc. I personally tried a few tutorials but would find myself having hard time following and end just trusting it and exploring. The shirt and avatar in my signature I made. Shirt was intended for females and sissy guys it was one of my first with jewels. I still need to learn whole lot more but biggest thing in making clothes is making clothes, regardless of gender and practicing drawing the male and female form. Female form is easier for me. Male form is more challenging. I even have done a experimental WereElf skin that has everything, I mean every thing on it to pubic hair, chest hair, down to hairy butt and penis as part of my educational process. So far I am on my 7th attempt, 6th is in signature. I will probably have to do few more tries.
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