Here is my Deco design drawing of the original object- my shoe. I first took a picture of the shoe on my cell phone, put that on my computer and then printed it out. I actually printed three pictures of the shoe- one full page= 8 1/2" x 11", and two 5" x 7"pictures. Next, I placed a piece of tracing paper over each print-out, to get the basic outline of the shoe. Then, by putting the tracing paper on top of my 11" x 14" sketch paper, and going over the outline drawn on the tracing paper with a pen, I was able to make an indention of the shoe's shape on the sketch paper. I went over the indention with a thin marker. The shoe in the middle of the composition (the deco shoe) is taken from the 8 1/2" x 11" picture and the smaller shoes that make up the border around it are from the 5" x 7" pictures. Still, these pictures just gave me the outline of the shoe(s); all the shapes inside the large, center shoe I put in myself. I had some trouble deciding what to do with all the curves that came naturally with the shape of the shoe; I wanted to keep the natural shape, but I needed to make it more geometric as well. So this was the final result. I wanted to create an obvious center of attention with the large shoe in the middle- to draw the eye right there. The border was a little tricky; I thought of trying to show the small shoe at different increments, (drawing the shoe, then each time- rotating it counterclockwise or clockwise a certain # of degrees, and drawing it again), but I decided random positions was more interesting. However, I did arrange it so that on top it alternates- toe, heal, toe, opposite of what it is on the bottom, which alternates- heal, toe, heal. I also just tried to keep the geometric shapes and defined lines of the deco style throughout the composition. I don't know if I was completely successful with this composition, but I think it turned out pretty good, and I enjoyed doing it.
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