I spent an hour correcting the poly flow of the heal and toe portion of the shoe. Things are getting easier now.
The main take away is the poly flow. You can see here the evenly space polys and how they alll line up vertically and horizontally. Also each poly maintains four sides and the model has an equal amount of polygon rows and columns across the model.
The previous image resulted from cleaning up the creased and chaotic polys from this. I found myself spending more time on cleanup than actually modeling the original polys.
So far my favorite cleanup tools are: edge bridge, edge sew, polygon, edge slice, and the move tool.
Related: [post] [shoe_019.lxo]