Somebody asked about a hood tutorial at The Underground, and I was inspired to make one! So here's a tut for a hooded sweater, I hope it's spiffy! I'm using a Pinky Senior base from Pinkland.

In most of my tuts, I go ahead and grab the desired color and its gradiating shades out of Edit Colors, and make splotches of them near the doll for quicker access. I didn't do that this time, but that doesn't mean you don't have to! Firstly, take your darkest shade and draw the basic shape of the hood around the doll's head and face. The sides should slope and then stick out a little as shown below, especially if the doll is going to have long hair that would naturally fill and bunch up the hood. If the doll has short hair, you could make the hood more "straight" along the sides, unless it's a looser hood as in a cloak's hood. Also, if the doll has short hair that can't be seen very well inside the hood, make sure you use your darkest shade to color in the inside of the hood.

Now, clean up the pixels until they're 1 pixel thick and neat-looking, and fill in the hood with the Bucket tool and your second-darkest shade. Also block in the shape of the doll's hair, unless you're going for a bald look!

Now, take the darkest shade again and draw the outline of the sweater. It doesn't have to be form-fitting, because a lot of hooded sweaters are slightly baggy anyway. Don't forget to draw some natural "stress folds" at her elbows, wrists, and waist. You can add a pocket in the front if you like, but you can leave this out if you'd rather.

Clean up all the pixels again and fill the sweater in with the second-darkest shade and the Bucket tool.

Take your next shade up, which should be the third darkest color, and start adding light areas to the sweater and hood. I do this in a "sloppy" technique, which is basically running the pencil or smallest paintbrush in a taut zigzag pattern back and forth along the front of the clothing (which includes the "front" or middle of the sleeves, etc.). This may seem strange at first, but it gives a better illusion of the folds in clothing. And it's faster besides! I did give the hood some natural, long folds, as you can see here. I also finished the doll's hair. To find out how to do hair like this, see my ~hair tutorial~.

Get your next shade and add highlights to the light areas in the clothing.

We're almost done! Get a very dark color (or whatever color you'd like, really) and draw the drawstrings at the center of the hood where the two sides meet at the throat/chest area. Add a light grey pixel to the bottom of each drawstring for the little metal ends! I "spilled" some of the doll's hair out of the hood, and I really like this effect.

Now she needs some more clothes, doesn't she? 'Twould look rather odd for her to be running about with only a hoodie on. O_O I drew some simple shorts on her and a pair of thong sandals, and for the shorts you basically follow the same shading techniques that you used for the hoodie. The sandals were fast and easy; I used only one lighter shade of purple for the straps and the footbed, and a darker shade for the sole and the shadows just underneath her toes.

Now, our hoodie doll is almost done! If you'd like to add more to her, draw some sand under her to make her look like she's covering up after a swim in the ocean! I gave her a beach towel too, and then I had to give her green eyes because the base's eyes were blue, and there was already too much blue in the picture. But anyway, she's done! Congrats! :D