NeoAcademy Ultimate Guide – Clothing Folds Mastery by Wankke & Hiera & Soya

Stop copying folds blindly. This package teaches you why folds happen so you can draw them in any pose, with three full oriental illustrations to prove it.

🎯 What you’ll learn

• How gravity, seams, pose, and wind create different types of clothing folds
• How to simplify folds without losing volume and keep them stylish
• How to draw and shade tops, bottoms, skirts, hoodies, shirts, capes, and frills
• Structure and features of hanbok, hanfu, qipao, yukata, and kimono
• How to design oriental costumes with patterns, color schemes, and accessories
• Full illustration workflow from rough to base colors, rendering, and color correction
• How to use Clip Studio materials and brushes to speed up patterns and backgrounds

✅ Requirements

• Skills: Basic drawing fundamentals and familiarity with character illustration workflow
• Tools: Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop or CSP-compatible software to open PSD files
• Hardware: Drawing tablet and PC capable of running illustration software

📝 Description

Most beginners study folds by tracing photos. That helps for one pose, then breaks on the next one. This course flips it: you learn the reason a fold appears — pull from a seam, compression from a bent joint, drop from gravity, lift from wind — then you practice it right away with a demo.

Wankke handles the theory part in short, direct lessons. Tops vs bottoms, angled poses, specific poses, how to turn a fold into a design choice instead of random lines. No fluff about talent. Just where to put the line, why it bends there, and what to skip to keep the silhouette clean.

Then it gets practical with oriental outfits. You get the structure of hanbok, hanfu, qipao, yukata, and kimono without a history lecture. How the collar sits, where the skirt spreads, where the wide sleeve collapses, what patterns and color combos actually read as Korean vs Japanese vs Chinese. Plus what props — norigae, hairpins, floral patterns — add density fast.

The second half is three full walkthroughs from three working illustrators. Soya does a Japanese-style girl with pattern work and accessories, Hiera does a hanbok piece with translucent fabric and sharp linework, Wankke does a modern hanbok mix with tricky stuff like mother-of-pearl shine. Each one goes rough to line art to base colors to rendering to correction, with layered PSDs, human bases, and a Clip Studio Paint material list so you can follow along and reuse the setup on your own characters.

🧑‍🎓 Who this course is for

• Artists who freeze every time they need to draw folds in a new pose
• Illustrators who want to draw Korean, Japanese, and Chinese costumes correctly and make them look good
• Beginners who want guided practice kits and step-by-step tutorials instead of figuring it out alone

🧑‍🏫 About the Author

Wankke is art director of NeoAcademy and an illustrator with around 490k followers known for sharp shading and high-detail finish. He has done graphics work for Sega, Square Enix, and Bluehole, and now teaches his fold system and rendering process directly.

Hiera and Soya are NeoAcademy-affiliated illustrators active in commercial character work. Hiera is known for clean, dense linework that already shows light and shadow, Soya for thin lines and restrained rendering with strong character appeal. Together they cover both theory and real client-ready execution.

🏁 Final Result

• A portfolio-ready oriental character illustration with designed costume, readable folds, patterns, and finished color correction — plus a library of fold studies, tutorials, and PSD process files you can reuse.

📢 Guys, this is a Group Buy campaign, check the GBC forum thread to get access

You can find the course preview in the download section below.