Graphics: Illustrator shoes.

Carrying on with my elements of design brief and still working in Illustrator my next task was to research Sarah Beetsons work and bring in an object to draw in Illustrator. Since I was looking into Sarah Beetsons work it only seemed right to take her work with shoes and draw my own shoe.
What I enjoyed most about her work is the very clear clean lines with a nice 60's feel as of the bright use of vibrant colours.

So before even looking into Illustrator I took a photo of my subject so I had a static image I could look at and draw from since I wanted the image to have a 2D feel to it since I planned to use just lines to make up the basic shape.

Taking the photograph into Illustrator I used it as a template to create my basic shape for the shoe as seen above. I did this by drawing sections at a time on different layers using the pen tool as the node feature allows for easy shaping and corrections to the base drawing. After I had the basic shape down after alot of small fixes to make sure certain sections didn't over lap (which would be more noticeable when colours added) My next step was to add stitch lines and air holes to the main shoe and use the same technique of adding line spacing to my base line from the pen tool to give off the grip texture on the front of the shoe. I feel this really brings the shoe to live. The extra detail such as that and the shoe lacing eyes really make this piece jump out I feel.

 The next step was to add colours to each shape. Doing this allowed me to focus on any missed imperfections I may have over looked in the original line work. 

With a focus on colour and clean design I ended up making a sleek red and blue/purple shoe after such went for a more unique colour scheme looking back at Sarah Beetsons work again for guidance. After finalising the 4 pieces I added some tonal colour as backgrounds to help the final pieces pop off the page. I feel this worked really well with what I was aiming for.