How to draw a Hiking Boot???

All you experts out there, pls help this newbie. What's the right way to go
about drawing a boot with all the complex contours? Any simple outline will
help.
Many Thx

 

I'll offer a modeled example from my hiking bootz..

http://zxys.com/bootz-zxys.jpg

http://zxys.com/swparts/shoe-zxys-2003.zip
http://zxys.com/swparts/shoe-zxys-2003.jpg

For the added upper support,.. heal, toe and lace, you offset surfaces,
trim and thicken.

That should get you started.

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Another thing to remember that might help. You can use the move/size
tool to make rapid what ifs by dragging points on the splines used for
the loft. Try it on Paul's shoe model. I find a lot of people never
use this functionality because it was never show to them.

Greg

 

Another thing that helps. Use the move/size tool to drag the spline
points used for the loft on Paul's shoe model. It updates almost
instantly. I have seen many people opening each sketch and moving the
points and then closing and waiting for part to update (I used too).

Greg