How to Draw Ruffles Filled with Repeating Pattern Swatches in Illustrator
With a few simple tricks, this tutorial will show you how to add dimension to your ruffle sketches and add a pattern fill to your fashion illustration:
You will learn:
00:42 How to conceptualize drawing your fashion flat to fill it with a pattern swatch
01:40 Tricks to draw the ruffles with the Pencil Tool
03:04 How to make the edges of your ruffle come to a fine point
03:50 How to add shadows to ruffles
04:38 How to add a print to your fashion flat
05:06 Adjust the ruffle shadows to see the print through them using the opacity / transparency settings