Penning out a your design Mrs Ras

Open a new file make sure it’s a landscape orientation

File>place your sketch

Scale the size with the selection tool

Add a new layer lock the sketch layer

Choose the pen tool and take the fill off and give the stroke a color

Pen out a shape of your shoe

Select the tracing and add a fill color

Add new layer toggle off the previous traced area

Add fill when the shape is traced out

Continue creating new layers for each “traced” penned out shape of your shoe until all filled

Begin adding details like stiches, grommets etc. Use shape tools and different brushstrokes

Pick one shape on your shoe copy paste

Select the one on the bottom and apply a gradient style > texture

Select the copied layer

In appearance window change the opacity

While the second layer is selected choose the gradient mesh

Lock every other layer but the one with the mask on it

Use lasso tool and select a group of anchor points that you think could have a highlight

While selected assign a color to that portion