The document provides a tutorial on sketching shoe designs in Autodesk Sketchbook. It discusses organizing the workspace with tools and brushes. Key steps include sketching the basic foot/shoe shape, creating thumbnail sketches to explore ideas, choosing concepts to refine, adding details to clean sketches, and explaining concepts with notes. Additional steps cover setting up layers for the final render, blocking in colors, adding textures and shadows, highlights and materials, and increasing contrast. The tutorial emphasizes organizing work in layers and layer groups to efficiently create and refine multiple concepts.
The document provides a tutorial on sketching shoe designs in Autodesk Sketchbook. It discusses organizing the workspace with tools and brushes. Key steps include sketching the basic foot/shoe shape, creating thumbnail sketches to explore ideas, choosing concepts to refine, adding details to clean sketches, and explaining concepts with notes. Additional steps cover setting up layers for the final render, blocking in colors, adding textures and shadows, highlights and materials, and increasing contrast. The tutorial emphasizes organizing work in layers and layer groups to efficiently create and refine multiple concepts.
The document provides a tutorial on sketching shoe designs in Autodesk Sketchbook. It discusses organizing the workspace with tools and brushes. Key steps include sketching the basic foot/shoe shape, creating thumbnail sketches to explore ideas, choosing concepts to refine, adding details to clean sketches, and explaining concepts with notes. Additional steps cover setting up layers for the final render, blocking in colors, adding textures and shadows, highlights and materials, and increasing contrast. The tutorial emphasizes organizing work in layers and layer groups to efficiently create and refine multiple concepts.
The document provides a tutorial on sketching shoe designs in Autodesk Sketchbook. It discusses organizing the workspace with tools and brushes. Key steps include sketching the basic foot/shoe shape, creating thumbnail sketches to explore ideas, choosing concepts to refine, adding details to clean sketches, and explaining concepts with notes. Additional steps cover setting up layers for the final render, blocking in colors, adding textures and shadows, highlights and materials, and increasing contrast. The tutorial emphasizes organizing work in layers and layer groups to efficiently create and refine multiple concepts.
of Shoe Design An Autodesk Sketchbook Tutorial by Hudson Rio My Workspace Sketchbook has a very simple and easy to use interface. Here’s how I organize my workspace in a way that is effective for my workflow.
TOOLBAR Access all of your tools from here BRUSH PALETTE BRU Cha opa
LAGOON Quick access to brushes Brushes For this tutorial (and most of my work) I only use a few different brushes. The first four brushes are standard brushes with minor adjustments to opacity / flow.
I use a custom pencil for sketching, and a custom eraser with a sharp edge.
Use: Highlights and Shadows Use: Blocking in colors Use: Erasing Overspray Use: Erasing Hig How to Sketch a Shoe Having correct proportions is extremely important in a shoe sketch. Starting with basic foot/shoe shape is the best way to achieve correct proportions. Once you have that down, the rest follows naturally.
STEP 1: Sketch a basic foot/shoe shape
Thumbnail Page The purpose of thumbnail sketches is to explore a wide range of ideas in small amount of time. These sketches are messy and quick, and will be refined later. Creating a thumbnail page is a good way to present and evaluate the ideas you’ve come up with. Refining Your Concepts Once you have evaluated your concepts and chosen a few to refine (based on function, aesthetics, materials, etc.) you will create a tighter sketch that communicates the details of the concept better.
Use the SCALE tool to increase the
size of your thumbnail in order to use it as an underlay for a refined sketch. Clean Up The Sketch Now that you already have the basic design figured out, you can use it as an underlay to trace over and create a quick, clean, and more detailed sketch of the concept.
The clean sketch is created on a LAYER
above the thumbnail sketch.
Lower the OPACITY of the thumbnail
layer so it is easier to see and sketch on the layer above. Explain Your Concept A simple sketch can’t convey everything you are thinking. This is why designers add notes to their sketches. It’s a quick way to explain features or materials to those who are reviewing the concepts.
Add a new LAYER to write your notes,
so they can be easily removed for the final render. Concepts and Layer Groups Designers come up with many concepts for each project, and as you’ve just learned, it takes a few steps to reach a refine drawing of each concept. Layer groups make it easy organize all of your concepts and the layers used to create them.
Turn on and off LAYER and
LAYER GROUP visibility to Each concept has its own see your concepts. LAYER GROUP.
All of the LAYERS used to
create that concept are held within the layer group. Set Up the Final Render Once a concept (or multiple concepts) is chosen from the refined sketches, it is time to do a final render. This is the part where the designs form, color, and materials will really shine!
STEP 1: On a layer below the line-work layer, add a solid color STEP 2: Th for the background using the FLOOD FILL tool, this will help OPACITY of colors and whites pop. Block in Colors Use the BRUSH and HARD ERASER to block in and define areas of color. I prefer to be messy with my BRUSH and clean up with the ERASER - it seems to be easier than trying to be precise with the brush. Keeping each color on a separate layer will help in the future.
STEP 1 STEP 3
STEP 2 Add Texture Adding a texture to your render is a great way to convey what material is being used to the viewer. For this re Googled “cloth texture” and found a high-res image that resembled the knitted material I want the shoe to b
STEP 1: Copy and paste the texture image into your document above the color layers.
STEP redu Shadows Start to define the form by adding shadows based on a defined light source. In this case, my light is above the cast on the lower parts. This step is done by adding value in large sections with a black AIRBRUSH, and erasin
STEP 1: Define the general form of the shoe by adding shadow STEP where the fabric curves away from the light source. Shadows Continue to use the AIRBRUSH and HARD ERASER technique to add shadows where needed. Here you can see the form of the shoe is starting to come together. Highlights Doing the same as you have done with the shadows, create highlights above the linework layer using a white AIRBRUSH and HARD ERASER. Use the HARD ERASER within the form to create the appearance of glossy materials. Edge Highlights and Material Br Using a white PENCIL, add crisp highlights to the edges of forms and areas where two materials meet. This creates a realistic appearance, and helps explain how the shoe is constructed. Glowing Highlights On a layer above the highlights, use a white AIRBRUSH to create bright highlights on the edges. I like to set the layer blending mode to SOFT GLOW, as this has a more dramatic appearance. Increase Contrast The final step is to DUPLICATE the shadows layer and highlight layer, and then adjust the opacity of the duplicated layers to a desired effect. Find a balance between having enough contrast to give the image a dramatic look, without losing detail in the design. Exploring Colors Remember when I said to keep your color layers separate? Here’s where it is going to come in handy. By locking the transparency of the color layers, you can easily brush on new colors and explore different colorways.
Shoe and Leather Encyclopedia - A Book of Practical and Expert Testimony by Successful Merchants. Each Article a Chapter, Each Chapter a Single and Separate Subject
Shoe and Leather Encyclopedia - A Book of Practical and Expert Testimony by Successful Merchants. Each Article a Chapter, Each Chapter a Single and Separate Subject
