Sketch-Fu: Men's Footwear

Thanks YO!
Her is today’s somethingsomething

I think this is my first post to this thread. Here’s a Chelsea ankle boot. Can you footwear pros tell me what’s wrong here? Is the toe box too narrow? Should’ve used an underlay…

Fun sketch, Brian. I think the fish eye perspective might be what is throwing you off. Check this out, I warped it into a bit more of a conservative perspective. does this feel closer to you?

Looks great to me for an emotional sketch (not as useful for a production guide due to the exaggerated perspective). I Like the angle and curve to it though. Might try that.

Rendering has a good feel and I dig the lines and color.

R

Thanks for the feedback guys. Yo, that does look better!

He has a great personality…

dropping in here with some summer slip ons!



Clean, Yo!

R

Thanks, Richard. I wanted to take a more product-like / architectural aesthetic to it, with the intentionally high top-line on the midsole and chamfers.

I like. Reminds me a lot of the Fuseproject x Birkenstock stuff from years ago. Can’t find a pic on google. Will search my archive. Very product like with considered surfaces, edges, geometric details and no textures…

R

I can see that. I remember those. Some interesting stuff with how they windowed out the cork.

OK, I did an orange one :slight_smile:

Finally found them. Also in my search through the 1000’s of pics I have stashed for reference found these Nike 227. Similar product geometry on the outsole I always loved.

R
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Something I did the other day for fun.

R

i remember those 227s. My first boss at nike designed them, Richard Clarke. I believe the story behind the name was that a PLM said “Richard, you need to stop designing shoes for you and your seven friends”… which morphed into the abbreviation YY7 (You and Your 7)… and then oddly became 227 at some point. I always thought the Yves Behar Birkenstock stuff was so close to be cool. The core gesture was there.

Feeling sketchy

Crayons, microns and tracing paper oh my—cyber grape baby!!

Dug out an old one from 2009 for IG today…

R

love it!

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