When portraying a person in a drawing, special attention should be paid to his shoes. It is important that it is consistent with the overall image. For example, it would be completely inappropriate to “dress” a ballerina in sneakers, and an athlete in model stilettos. Therefore, it is necessary to think through all the details in advance. Comprehending the basics of drawing, you have to master the accepted and standard versions of the images. As a rule, women are always portrayed in classic shoes. Let's get acquainted with one of the many ways, doing the work step by step. This article will help you understand how to draw shoes in stages. To facilitate the task, our manual contains several sketches.
How to draw high heel shoes? Start with a sketch
The proposed method is not quite suitable for the direct image of a woman in shoes, but it will help to master the technique of performing this wardrobe item with high heels. Having trained with the help of this quite large-scale example, you can draw smaller parts in drawings with people. So how to draw high heel shoes?
- Let's start by making light sketches, indicating the approximate location of two objects. The main lines will show the general contours of the feet and shoes: heels, heels, insoles, toes.
- Then more clearly draw the insole of the shoe located in front. Mark the lines of emphasis on the heel and toe with transverse strokes. The back shoe will be turned back toe, so the bottom of the sole is not visible in the figure, but the insole.
- Make the marked lines clearer by drawing out the parts of the shoes - the heel and the toe.
How to draw shoes? Second step: style definition
Depending on the model, the shoes may look completely different. Based on this example, you can draw shoes in the form of open stilettos, summer flip flops on the platform, and even spring boots with wide soles. The only thing that remains unchanged is the height of the heel and the general contours, since it was with them that the sketch began. Consider how to draw classic shoes.
- To do this, it is enough to slightly close the front part and make a high and deep calcaneal zone. Draw a sock in the form of overlapping material with a small hole in the thumb area.
- Remove unnecessary lines, making the picture cleaner and sharper. For added realism, draw an embroidered factory label inside the insole of the front shoe.
- Shade the inside of both shoes. The closer one will have blackout in the heel area and slightly in front, at the back - in the toe area.
- Mark the seam line on the second shoe, making it double.
Stage Three: Clarification of Details
When the drawing is almost ready, you need to pay attention to the little things. After all, it is the details that give the image completeness. And here a purely technical question arises: “How to draw shoes so that they look like real ones?” Using a pencil, you can very skillfully emphasize the color transition, various shades and contours, tinting different parts of the picture in different ways.
- Shade the contour lines near the heel and inside the insole.
- On the back of the shoe, darken the back of the sole with a darker color.
- Place the upper surface of the shoes according to the recommendations below for working with different tones.
The final stage: the choice of color scheme and surface shading
The choice of future colors is very important. If you plan to make the shoes dark, it will be quite enough to shade the desired area with thick strips, and then shade slightly. A light color scheme provides a limitless opportunity to show all your imagination and skill. This is an additional oblique hatching of heels, and giving the heel zone the desired roundness by toning, and decorating the toe with light elegant lines. In addition, in cases with both dark and light shoes, you can mark the surface on which it stands. This is all done by applying shadow lines falling back from each shoe, assuming that the light source is in front of them.
So, the shoes are ready! Didn’t it turn out elegantly and stylishly?