Modified Contour Shoe Drawing

This assignment was to draw our shoe in pencil from observation looking from three different angles: the top, the side, and the front.

I did this project because it was a required assignment to assess our understanding of line as an element of art. My project had a few smaller drawings of my shoes in the beginning, but seeing that they were too small I tried to make them bigger. I still had trouble making them a reasonable size, and it ended up affecting the composition of the drawing.

The project relates to my life because it is my shoe, and I chose to draw this specific shoe because it is the one I was wearing at the time the project began. I think I did a good job with the line quality; the lines are pretty solid and I tried to make them lighter and darker to show value. I'm really annoyed with the composition, the drawing looks really crowded and random in the middle but then empty around the edges. I feel like I should have planned where I wanted to put the shoes a little more.