@awking

Peindre

Focus on structure (construction of mannequins). Understanding shading and clothing comes as a consequence of understanding form and their construction. You need more practice with the fundamentals. When you got this down, then shading becomes a matter of deciding where to place your light source. You have to understand the structure of your drawing. It is the forms/structure of what you are drawing that determines how to separate the shadow shapes from the light shapes. but don’t focus on that now. Focus construction then the shading becomes easier and understandable. Clothes are Also forms that wraps around the underlying figure/mannequinn where secondary forms emerge because of tension points and gravity. Focus on fundamentals. I promise you’ll be doing yourself a favor.