DESIGN RESEARCH
SOLE FURY TRAIL BY MARC BROSSEAU
I found that this project did not show a lot of development, but had really great looking tooling drawings and a rendered sketch. The sketch was a combination have hand drawn then taken into photoshop. I think by the end most of the lines are in photoshop that are actually on the shoe including highlighting. The tooling drawing I felt had a good use of patterns dropped in to show texture as as well as the shading is very regular looking so I am not sure if they were illustrator shapes that were filled or if he had a very steady hand with a solid brush in photoshop.
N I K E A C G C O N C E P T BY ALEXIS FILLOUX
While simple and not very complex and colorful in comparison to other projects I saw, I felt that this one was very focused on form because of that. I thought that these sketches were great inspiration for me because they aren’t anything crazy but the composition of them together and combining the focus of each area of the shoe on one page makes it interesting to look at. In this designers process they 3D printed their sole, which we wont be printing the whole sole but made me think that printing the raised surfaces to attach to a sole could be a good idea. I really liked this sketching on top of the rendered midsole view and could be a great mid process type of render.
KASEY LACOURSE
Similar to the first project, this is a drawing that is rendered in photoshop. Unlike the first project however, I do not think this artist used adobe illustrator at all for the base tooling and instead relied likely on digital drawing. The use of loose lines contrasted with a photoshopped texture however I think is what makes it look polished and stand out. The texture is applied with low opacity so it blends with the hand drawn style of the shoe which I feel I was missing with my renders. The first image is a hand drawn movement diagram studding the sport likely tracing an image of the athlete then coloring with an opaque brush on a drawing tablet. This is something I think is very doable!