How do I make these foot angles look right?

[JoshRaed]

It's such a weird angle that if I actively trace it, it would still look wrong. But it can't be wrong because it's literally a photo.

But the closest I can get to recreating them is this. It doesn't look at an angle, it looks tilted up, or it's shaped weird.

Edit: Thank you @Lensing I'm going to try your reference.
Thank you @VibrantFox I'm going to use this foot reference.
Thank you @delladz I'm going to look at the foot structure and then draw the show on top of it.

[Lensing]

I always break it down to simple 3d shapes.

You can do it more complicated like in the example above or
more simple. First trace over the reference and draw countour
lines over it, that makes it easier to imagine the direction of the
planes. Then hand draw the simple shapes, opacity down and
draw the shoe over it.

I tried to keep your style for the drawing of the shoes.

I do think that the shoes that you drew fit to your current level + style,
I wouldn´t worry about it and get better at it with time

[VibrantFox]

did a couple quick pass overs but maybe this could help?

feet got easier for me after i found tutorials that break feet down into building blocks so essentially those three chunks in the last sketch over. this tutorial from wingedcanvas helps break it down but specifically this lil diagram here where the sphere is the ankle, the puddin cup is the heel the door wedge is the foot and the lil rectangles are the toes

you dont have to worry about the lil toe blocks when drawing shoes but its essentially just breaking down those main big shapes to get the shoe/foot to look right

there's also the duck method which is essentially the same thing just a different shape

[delladz]

It's the way you've drawn the shoe. It would probably be more useful to reference the shoe you want and draw it at the angle rather than find the foot and put the shoe on.

Remember to think about the structure of the shoe and where certain curves and angles would look in respect to where they're placed on the foot!

[thepenmonster]

Remember to think about the structure of the shoe and where certain curves and angles would look in respect to where they're placed on the foot!

This is correct. Grab your shoe and practice drawing it. You don't need to draw every seam and lace, but knowing the actual structure of a shoe will help you make your feet look better.

[Shanny8]

LOVE the duck example! LOL

[delladz]

reverse! learn the SHOE structure in addition to the foot!

[VibrantFox]

i dont think previews from da work but radenwa has a BUNCH of shoe refs from a ton of different angles

this is one of em but you can find more by googling it (radenwa Footwear Reference Photo Set) or in their gallery
https://www.deviantart.com/radenwa/art/Footwear-Reference-Photo-Set-Athletic-Sneakers-830780671

there's also the high res pack with everything on their gumroad
https://radenwashop.gumroad.com/l/bootsref

but here's a couple of em just to grab super quick

[JoshRaed]

I'm still not fully happy with this shoe but it looks way better now I think.

[ButterflyEmpress]

This is something I discovered recently. All my life I had no idea that shoes weren't foot shaped, aside from specific brands. I struggled with drawing shoes over 3d models, wondering why they looked wonky

[Lensing]

There are some things that help me a lot and I wish I would have done earlier in my life.

Excercise:
Imagining / drawing a shoebox first and then drawing the shoe. If you can´t get the box
right then it means that you didn´t understand the perspective of the foot / shoe that you
are drawing and it will not look right.

Drawing cross contour lines when sketching to show direction + always think in planes
which head to a certain direction in 3d space. I sometimes draw in arrows to remind me
to think about planes

[delladz]

it seems like such a small detail compared to things like face detail or body gesture, but the frosting can really make a great cake standout (aka the costume design of a figure lol)

Athletic Sneakers are honestly a great way to learn shoe structure because they're very detailed in it's design in a way that boots or heels typically aren't so it's kinda like starting from hard difficulty and then gets easier. Plus sneaker designs do a lot of interesting things that follow the natural form of the foot so it also kinda helps learn foot structure!