In this shoe making tutorial, I will teach you how to make a basic shoe pattern. From this basic shoe pattern, you will create all other pattern parts of your shoe.
You have one last and, of course, you want to make different shoe models using the same last. How do you usually work?
What you do is, you attach the masking tape and design your shoes on it, then you check it if you made your masking tape shoe pattern correct. When you want to make new shoe model on this last (as it should be), you do it all over again and then check your masking tape shoe pattern.
So, each time when you are making a new shoe pattern, you waste valuable time to check your masking tape pattern until you get it right.
Now I want to ask you, why you should spend your time and effort on the same shoemaking process if you can work smart instead?
Make your basic shoe pattern to work smart
You can and should work faster and easier with the help of Basic Shoe Pattern.
Before I will explain it, let’s talk about main mistakes that are the cause of your wrong shoe patterns, whatever your shoe design is.
In most cases, it happens when you are attaching your masking tape pattern to the cardboard.
Yes, simple as this and you do it wrong! Now, what you need to look for?!
1. You need to attach masking tape pattern at the right angle.
2. You need to spread all wrinkles and folds of masking tape pattern correctly. You need to do it, do not change the correct dimension of your last. Those wrinkles and folds of masking tape always created as a result of transferring masking tape pattern from 3D shape (your shoe last) to 2D shape (the cardboard).
So when you make your basic shoe pattern for different models of shoes, each time you struggle with the same problems:
* finding the right angle
* spreading all of the folds correctly
Why should you work this way?
This way you spend so much time on useless tests. This is a just wrong way to work.
That’s why first you should make the basic pattern of your last. Check it using ordinary paper pattern, to make sure you transferred it in the right angle and spread well all of the folds. Only then you should make another masking tape pattern with the footwear design that you want to make ( second basic pattern).
Just think about it, you will only need to do it right once.
This way you will attach your new design on the already checked first basic shoe pattern with the right angle and will avoid common mistakes that happen during the transfer ( 2D-3D ). The first basic shoe pattern will serve you as a guide to attach each of your new shoe designs made on the same last correctly from the start.
The first basic shoe pattern is a kind of a template for any of your shoe designs that you will want to make. This is how you will spend less time with pattern making and will avoid many mistakes developing different types of shoes.
I hope I made you think of the process, let me know in the comment if it will change the way you work ( I hope so) on your shoe pattern.
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