Another good exercise.
Its been discussed here earlier “3d vs. sideview” sketches for footwear. I for one normally sketch in side view. I always found it quicker and easier to work out a design without having to worry about the perspective being correct.
I’ve been inspired recently, however, while working on a new project to give 3D another chance. I figured the reverse of my normal procedure (thinking only about perspective, not worrying about form) would be interesting to try and might get my confidence up on 3d footwear sketching.
To feel more comfortable with sketching in 3d, I did an exercise to sketch as many 3d views as possible (both upper and outsole) focusing only on the form, not design, while playing around with a few markers.
Without being limited to thinking about design, after a few hours of the above, I do feel progress. My eye for perspective i think has improved, and perhaps in the future will mix it up a bit more.
Give it a shot, and feel free to post the results here. Would be interesting to see some different techniques.
cheers,
R
Ps. sketches were done with pencil and a few Copic markers on letter sized laser copy paper, about 3 drawings per page. put everything together in Photoshop, with no adjustment except for tweaking the levels to make the white paper white. about 1.5 hours of sketching, with a few pages ending up in the trash.
