Direction & movement
Sweeping lines along the upper pull the eye from heel to toe. Layered panels give the form a sense of forward motion, while the thicker sole anchors the profile.
PROMISE TO PREVAIL
Preparing your experience
PROMISE TO PREVAIL
Preparing your experience
CHINA / FOOTWEAR / COMFYUI
A footwear study developed during my time in China—using hand drawing and ComfyUI to explore how an idea changes through iteration.
Explore the process
Traveling to China gave me a new setting for my design practice. I brought my interest in footwear into a workshop environment, moving between sketches, conversations and digital experiments.
ComfyUI became part of that process: a way to build an image-generation workflow, explore variations and return to the drawing with a clearer sense of direction. The design work lives in the choices made between those images—what to keep, what to question and what to develop.
The shoe brings a bright upper into conversation with a darker, more substantial base. These visual relationships give the concept its character and provide a framework for evaluating the next iteration.
Sweeping lines along the upper pull the eye from heel to toe. Layered panels give the form a sense of forward motion, while the thicker sole anchors the profile.
Yellow creates the first point of attention. Charcoal separates the upper from the sole, and grey provides a quieter transition between the two.
Mesh-like areas, smooth overlays and sculpted sole details suggest different material roles. At this stage, they are visual proposals for further material and construction development.
My workflow notes map a sequence from loading a checkpoint and encoding prompts to sampling, decoding and saving the image. Putting those steps into a visible structure makes the process easier to revisit.
The loop is simple: form an idea, run the workflow, evaluate the result and refine. Prompts and generation settings offer ways to explore alternatives; the sketch and the design intention remain the reference for judging them.
PROCESS NOTEBOOK
A visible loop connects hand drawing, node-based generation and visual comparison.
Archive review connects the existing work below. Next explorations describe new development ideas.
01 / Archive review
The drawings describe silhouette and structural rhythm. Use them as a reference when comparing the generated footwear variations.
02 / Archive review
The original ComfyUI notes show loading, prompt encoding, sampling, decoding and image output. This is image-generation workflow evidence, not a shoe topology model.
03 / Next exploration
The component study moves the discussion back toward construction. A next iteration could choose one overlay relationship and draw it consistently in several views.