Placing those round pins on the surface

What I am trying to do:

I am trying to find the correct way of adding those gold details on the curved leather surface of the shoe. Below I will be sharing some info or tutorial videos for future referance.

Brain storming:

• Array along curves?

  • Array along a curve without deformation:

  • Array along curve without distortion and align to a surface:

    Tip

    This one looks interesting, may be the answer to my question.

• Array along a path?

  • Array along a path:

Possible method one achiving this result:

• Create the parent surface first.
• Make edge loops in it, as much as you need to serve as a path for your arrays.
• Select the curves and separate them with Ctrl+P.
• Turn them into curves.
• Use those curves as array path.

Possible helpful video tutorial Array along curve

Check these tutorials too, they may be helpful:

• Parenting and Instancing on points in Blender:

• Align Objects to curved faces effectively: