Today’s prompt: Draw your shoes or one shoe!
Find one that is your favorite, or one that rarely gets picked to step out into the world.
It can be simple or elaborate with long laces and fine stitching.
A helpful tip?
Look at the overall shape. Start with the contour lines.
See the shoe as an object built shape by shape. Are there circles, ovals, rounded rectangles?
In other words, try not to draw the shoe by ‘seeing’ the shoe as a whole. Try drawing the shoe by noticing the shapes of the spaces within– the shapes of the sole, the toe, and the shapes shadows make. Break the whole into those smaller shapes and place them where they fit in relation to the overall outline of the shoe.
Remember, a sketchbook is a place for practice and mistakes. It is not a place for finished pieces that you put up for sale. Well, maybe you get lucky every now and again, but do remember that is not the first purpose of a sketchbook.
Give yourself permission to draw a very wonky shoe today.
Let’s draw!
Autumn
