Every now and then, you will have to make something in your drawing that you just don't know how to make. You just don't know enough about it to be comfortable or confident enough to draw, at least without a lot of help.

For me, that something is a blouse.

As a guy who wears men's clothing, I never really paid attention to blouses. I have always been very unfamiliar with them and naive about them. At least I was, until having to research for this article!

As I think back to my experiences with drawing women, I usually practiced drawing them with simple clothing like a <a href="http://www.letsdrawpeople.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-how-to-sketch-a-shirt/">t-shirt</a>. Why wouldn't I? T-shirts are much more familiar to me. That said, I am sure I have drawn a few women in blouses, sometimes without even realizing what exactly I am doing.

So how do you draw a blouse when you don't know anything about blouses? The same way you draw any unfamiliar subject. You learn about it, see examples of different kinds, and get reference photographs to help you. That is exactly what we will do in this article.

Defining Blouses