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Hello, it's Laurel the shoe girl today. We're talking about platform shoes. And I'm showing
you how to draw different designs for platform shoes. And I've showed you so far a bunch
of big, bulky, chunky, platform soles, but these that I'm going to show you right now,
are Platform Mary Janes. And the name platform with these, also means that this part of the
shoe, that's the platform. So it doesn't have to be a big, thick, chunky six inch wedge
across. The platform part can be as little as an inch, or two inches, and the fact that
the shoe and the foot is resting upon a platform, and then goes to the heel, that's what makes
it called a platform. So I'm going to show you how to draw this, in Platform Mary Janes
right now, and we will get going. In our first step, is to decide what sort of platform we
want on them, and since they're Mary Jane's, I'm making them more delicate and feminine,
as opposed to big, wedge, chunk, of a platform. So I'm going to outline the bottom of my foot,
like I always do. That just gives me my sense of a starting place. You can find your own,
and you probably will. It will be different, just experiment, and then I'm going to have
my platform full. Go like this, and then work up to the heel, and then decide how you want
your heel to be. Draw that in, and then since they're Mary Jane's, the top part of the shoe
is pretty much set in stone, that it's going to be a regular, old, pump style, with a strap
across it. That's what a Mary Jane shoe is. There's different variations, and you can
play with the platform part of it, or flats, heels, whatever, but a Mary Jane does do certain
things all the time. The certain things are the covered toe, unless it's an open toe,
but they're the exceptions to every rule, and then make sure that across the top of
the foot you have a strap, and then you've got your Mary Jane.