Morpho : Anatomie des plis de vêtements

Morpho: Anatomy for Artists #8

by Michel Lauricella

Les plis des vêtements prennent des formes variées mais suivent une logique relativement simple. Parmi les nombreux exemples existants, Michel Lauricella a identifié ceux qui réapparaissent chaque fois que la posture est répétée. Il a ainsi établi une « anatomie » des plis qui vous aidera à préciser votre dessin, à concevoir d'imagination le dessin de différents vêtements, et vous permettra de choisir les plis en fonction des poses afin de dynamiser vos personnages.

Genres: Art, Drawing, Reference, Nonfiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2022

About the author

Michel Lauricella is a French artist who has worked at various fine arts studios in Paris and at Gobelins. He currently teaches at Lisaa and Fabrica 114 and is the author of various drawing manuals.

Reviews

[K.T. ♡]

reading this and practicing art with cool peeps on discord :]

[Faith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Took me several months to finish this book as I took my time to really copy and Understand each page in the art book. Overall this book greatly improved my understanding and skill of drawing folds and creases and I would recommend to any artist that wishes to improve their skill.

[K Sadov · Rating 5 out of 5]

The usual advice for drawing clothing is to do a bunch of drapery studies and use the resulting knowledge of how force vectors act on fabric to first-principles your way through positioning folds on a figure. I mean, you >are< rigorously constructing every figure from basic 3D shapes, right??? Well, in any case it's good to have some anatomical-landmark-based heuristics for placing folds that you can keep in mind whenever you don't feel like running a whole physics sim in your head.

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great resource for sketching without references. I love how thoughtfully designed the book is; it's small, portable and the pages lay flat. Despite its compact size, it's packed with insightful drawings and concise, helpful explanations that make learning effortless.

Note for self:
* Imagine wrapping a cylinder in fabric
* Find the point of tension / multiple tension points
* Remember that stiching and volume affects folds and creases
* Consider weight and material when illustrating stifness/fluidity

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great resource for sketching without references. I love how thoughtfully designed the book is; it's small, portable and the pages lay flat. Despite its compact size, it's packed with insightful drawings and concise, helpful explanations that make learning effortless.

Note for self:
* Imagine wrapping a cylinder in fabric
* Find the point of tension / multiple tension points
* Remember that stiching and volume affects folds and creases
* Consider weight and material when illustrating stifness/fluidity

[Pedro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muito bom. Só senti que faltou uma seção dedicada a exemplificar de maneira mais sistemática o impacto do tipo de tecido comparado uns com os outros. Ele faz isso, sim, mas de uma maneira mais espalhada. Eu acredito que, se ele tivesse condensado esse aspecto em uma seção própria, seria melhor. Mas, fora isso, é um livro espetacular: explica da maneira mais direta possível.

[Avedon Arcadio · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pretty decent portable and concise overview of how to draw clothing. I can see these ring quite helpful to any artist.

[Carmen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Súper útil y he mejorado un montón 😭

[Julie Tran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly reccomend this book for artists who are looking for references of different types of clothing and understand how clothing drapes! I also love that the book lays flat too.

[Ali Ives · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an absolutely brilliant book if you want great tips on how to draw fabric: how the weight and type can vary, and how it hangs on the human body as various types of clothing. As with all of his books, Michel Lauricella offers his advice in easy to understand ways, accompanied by gorgeous sketches. Unlike a lot of drawing books, he doesn't try and give you step-by-step tutorials to follow, but instead breaks down the anatomy you're working with, whether that's the human form or (in this case) the clothing on top of it, and presents it to you in ways that allow you to really understand how it all works.
Definitely a handy addition to any artist's toolkit!