A Workbook for Drawing Clothed Characters: Practise and improve with tomfoxdraws

Practise drawing clothing and drapery with expert guidance from artist Tom Fox (aka tomfoxdraws). 

The complex skill of drawing clothing is best learned through practise, and there’s no better place to get started than this workbook. Specially crafted as a companion to Tom Fox’s book An Artist’s Guide to Drawing Clothed Characters, this collection of interactive challenges and exercises provides a valuable space to test your knowledge of garments and drapery. 

With hundreds of Tom’s images to study, partial drawings to complete, and guidelines to sketch over, A Workbook for Drawing Clothed Characters is an innovative resource that will push your skills even further.

•  Dozens of guidelines to draw over and partial models to complete
•  Sketch directly on the page to test your knowledge and progress
•  A detailed solutions section to study and check as you go along
•  A perfect learning companion for An Artist's Guide to Drawing Clothed Characters

About the Author:

Tom Fox is a figure-drawing instructor and storyboard artist based in the United Kingdom who has worked in the animation industry for clients such as Universal Studios, Aardman, Axis Studios, and the BBC.

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This workbook accompanies artist Tom Fox’s new book An Artist’s Guide to Drawing Clothed Characters, giving readers space to practise and improve with guidance from the author, or can be studied alone as a hands-on drawing aid. 

With 200 pages of accessible instructions and figures to draw over on the page, this workbook allows the reader to practise the theory put forth in the main book, while also functioning perfectly as a standalone. The exercises consist of partial references at low opacity, with the figure or geometric mannequin beneath the clothing provided so the reader can concentrate on drawing the clothes only. Additionally, this workbook includes some bonus clothing and pose references from the artist – ones there wasn’t room for in the main book. 

This and the main title are follow-ups to Tom Fox’s previous book, Anatomy for Artists: Drawing Form & Pose (over 30,000 copies sold to date), with the figure-drawing maestro taking a deep dive into the subjects of clothing and drapery. Using his unique approach of simplified mannequins and dynamic figure sketches, Tom shares his process for improving your figures holistically, understanding fabric physics, and capturing the fold, stretch, and crumple of believable clothing.