Shoes

Let me just say that shoes do not tickle my fancy.

Feet and shoes have been, for some time, an area that I have devoted little to no practice in. I've been studying the human anatomy in order to memorize for some time now. Feet have never really interested me.

Drawing shoes, even from sight, is somewhat of a challenge for me. I don't really have the spatial knowledge to just guess how one works like I can do with a head or a body or a lot of other things since I haven't drawn them.

That is problem number 1.

The second problem is that I find it somewhat difficult to become inspired by something so mundane as my shoes. Some shoes are designed quite interestingly; there is clear thought in their choice of color and design. My shoes are simple slippers.

 My task is to make them interesting when I myself do not find them interesting. The duty of an artist with subject matter like this is to make something interesting out of the mundane. I am having a hard time doing that for this project, because, for the first time in a while, the thing I am trying to prove to the world is interesting is something that I myself also finds boring.

C'est la vie.