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COSTUME164

Study and Design

SHOES TELL LIFE STORIES; they reflect our age, personality, This class takes the shoe as its subject in building on
style, values, social and economic status, the era in which we earlier lessons concerned with seeing through objects to
live, and how we stand and walk. Superstitions and fetishes understand their function, structure, and volume in space
are attached to them: we are told never to put new shoes on (see pp. 100-01 and pp. 104-07). Here we go one step further,
a table, and they have been concealed in buildings to ward and after studying familiar shoes we use the information
off misfortune. As artifacts in museums, they record and learned to invent new ones. To set up, you will need several
reflect our common history, while artists have painted their large sheets of drawing paper, a range of colored felt-tip
boots or those of others as personal portraits and memorials. pens with both fine and broad tips, and a selection of shoes.

REPEATED STUDY

To illustrate this class, I m a d e n u m e r o u s sheets o f drawings, enjoying t h e
study and invention of shoes. You, too, will discover more, and experience
visible progress, if y o u m a k e plenty o f drawings as o p p o s e d t o only a few.

Linear Outline

Using fine pens, cover a large sheet of paper with
line drawings o f several shoes. Turn t h e m in different
directions and observe their structure and form.
D r a w each o n e first as a solid object, t h e n again
as if transparent, imagining y o u can see t h r o u g h it.