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How to Draw Folds and Study Drapery

Ron Lemen

Happy holidays.Despite the craziness in the world today, I hope you’re still finding some quiet refuge in your creative space. I have a small gift for you this Christmas. I’m sharing the beginning of a new video series on how to draw folds and drapery like a boss. With CGMA no longer active, I now have full creative control over this material and wanted to make it available directly to you. This course was consistently…

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Composition Junction, What’s your Function?

Greg Ruth

September 26, 2025 -   Composition is the quiet workhorse of any piece of work, fine art, cover illustration, key art, etc... it is the contextual energy that guides the eye and steers it across the scope of the image. It does the lion's share of the work on a piece but also often works best when it's buried a little bit behind the hedge making magic in the background. You can express compositional energy with simple graphic layouts as with say splash page style action shots, or use furniture and light, or even the way characters in your image gaze at each other or elsewhere. Composition is the absolute most quiet and potent workhorse on the canvas or page.     Because of my comics background I was forced to grow a limb that always thinks about how…

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