Sleeves
Pleated Balloon Sleeve
A balloon sleeve billows out through the arm and gathers in at both the shoulder and the cuff. This one is the Pleated Balloon Sleeve, with its own details and proportions.
- Views
- Front and back, drawn together
- Named layers
- Sleeve L, Sleeve R, Body, Inside Back Neck and Neckband
- Anchors
- 189 on the front, only where a line turns
- File
- Editable vector in Adobe Illustrator
How to draw a pleated balloon sleeve flat in Illustrator
- Open Flat Library in Adobe Illustrator and go to Tops or Dresses, then Sleeve.
- Choose Pleated Balloon Sleeve from the pictures. It is drawn on the template, front and back.
- Pull the blue points to change its length, width, neck and sleeve. The front and back redraw together, and the figure stops you going too tight.
- Insert it into your document as clean, named layers, and keep working by hand.
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