Sketch-Fu: Men's Footwear

Nice improvement Alex.
Another iPad sketch for the weekend… Simple skate shoe design.

Nice Phil,

What app and pen are you using? Very tight.

R

Hi everyone,

Just finished a render of a Nike Huarache Lacrosse Turf shoe based on an image I downloaded. Thought I’d emulate a real photo of a product to try to make my visual as realistic as possible, learned quite a lot from this. Any tips/advice? I feel like I could definitely communicate the laces better in terms of texture and shading. Find detailed areas of shading difficult to construct using the brush tool sometimes.

Look forward to hearing some constructive comments!

D

PS: find more of my visuals at http://djones3291.tumblr.com

@Phil, nice, love the quarter panel!

Thanks Richard and Michael! I’m using a Bamboo stylus and Sketchbook Pro for iPad (full version for only $4.99).

Hi djones

Good work. You seem to have a pretty solid grasp on rendering skills. I would recommend finding a good lateral view template instead of a photo, because photos sometimes appear skewed and can make it tricky to communicate your sketch. For instance, the photo you used looks to be angled slightly past a straight lateral view, but not enough to make it a true 3/4 view. You have a very strong start, take it to the next level and apply it to an original design.

Sunday boot sketch.

phil - I’m loving the boot pull strap! it really adds character to the boot and helps pull your eye from detailed lacing area and outsole. love it!

Hi all, just found this board and discussion and think it is really great!

Nice render & Interesting toe box design there, Damonski.

Been a while… here are a few quick sketches. All comments welcome.
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coroflot6.jpg

Thanks ADD…Nice work on your portfolio link site…

First time trying to render a shoe, this is a work in progress, design is nothing crazy new mostly focusing on the form reading and practicing working between illustrator and PS.

Update: This is close to the finale as this is due tomorrow for class I will keep tweaking it a bit, I really need to loosen up my renderings I will probably do some speed paintings of shoes and see what comes from that. Any feedback is much appreciated

Another one of my quick modo styling studies.

@Padilla Great sketch over there! Liking the orthographic sketch of the pull tab to the left. Very inspiring I must add.

Thanks Viper and Alex. Nice sketch page Viper, diggin’ the simple clean designs you’ve got there.
Mid-week skate shoe sketch…

Warm up speed paint sketch
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ScoRo5 - Your sketches are very unique however from a styling point of view there are so many panels [i’m assuming they’re components] shapes, colour flashes all fighting for position, and i’m not sure if this is working. Generally with conventional footwear styling there are certain ways components are shaped too accentuate the curvaceaous lines on the vamp or to mirror the eyelet/facing panels. I think if you were to start and consider more conventional footwear patterns as a basis, and then work in your own styling elements then you may see more progression. The textures are also a bit puzzling as they’re making the shoe look more like paper mache.

good luck

Wassup fellow sneakerheads! First time posting so any advice would be much obliged!

Just another marker render that holds similar qualities