I have a paper tape double, which approximates me as I was several years ago. So, in an effort to make better use of it, I checked my measurements and added various bits of padding, with a view to draping a usable basic master pattern with all of my figure foibles built in. i.e. no more major pattern adjustments. Ha Ha!
YouTube has some quite useful draping videos. The oldest ones are the best, as they show a lot of detail, but not everything. Even they 'cheat' by presuming that I am using a professional dress form with Princess lines, etc., marked. My body doesn't come with those! At least these old ones show draping for a four dart sloper. The newer videos are generally posted by enthusiastic youngsters who drape on a size 6 form, without wearing ease and only use Bust and Waist darts on the Front. The back might have a tiny waist dart. The possibility of a Back shoulder dart is mentioned in passing. Huh, have you seen my shoulder!
I don't want to decry their efforts, but I have to laugh. I'm a real person. I have bumps and hollows.... that need darts...and wearing ease! I really don't want to go back to pattern drafting from numbers; measuring ones self is a trial - everything keeps shifting! Toiles will still be needed, but Oh, to have a pattern me shaped!
Here are links to the videos that I have found most useful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqlv9X-08NE There are parts 2, 3 and 4, but she skips over how the
Back bodice is draped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo8s7jykqt8 I shall use this one for the Back Bodice, she does have one
covering the Front, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScYU6ntbAfk A Jacket Sleeve by Shingo Sato. Might be able to crib ideas for
draping a one piece sleeve, especially the underarm shape for the Armscye.
Anyone found any other useful draping ones.
Clare.