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Birkenstock Tutorial Part 1

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Step one: Okies pick your palette, and your base. You will probably want to put the palette and base into your drawing program. :) (<--sarcasm)

Birk is kind of like converse in that they make tons of different kinds of shoes. but for this we're learning how to make those clunky slip-ons. :)
In my first square you see that in blue I drew way around the foot. I also drew a small tounge on these. The pair I have have a tounge and a buckle so that's what I'm trying to go for here. :)

Step two: Draw the sole of the shoe. On birks the sole is very thin and mostly decorative. so one pixel thick or so it probably good. :)

Step three: Now we shade!
I'm recoloring my outline in color 1. and the sole in color 2.

Step four: Now for the rest of the shoe! select color 2 and shade along the side and bottom of the shoe facing forward. Round out the shading a bit on the bottom. You ant the shading to be about a pixel to two pixels thick. Also shade around the right edge of the tounge.
For the other shoe Shade along the bottom about two pixels thick and carry the shading up the side a bit. And the side of the tounge as well.

Step five: With color 3 echo the shading you just did. You'll have a rounded shading look. :)

Step six: Fill with color 4.
I'm taking this point to re-color mine in the pretty brown instead of the neon color. :)

Step Seven: Now we're going to shade the sole of the shoe. (the part under the foot that sticks out a bit.)
Shade just under the foot with color 2. And then finish with color 3.

Step Eight: Now we need some highlights in color five. The highlight color should not touch any color besides the fourth one.

Step Nine: Now I'm going to show you the birks under a outline of some jeans. Typically when I wear jeans or pants and wear my birks only the toe shows. So in this case you'll want to add a shadow under the outline of the jean in the third color.
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Petalwhisker's avatar
Awesome tutorial!