to be quite honest, i was getting very bored of doing shoes. i mean it's a lot of work and I'm not one who enjoys sniffing sharpie marker fumes for hours on end. i've been doing shoes for so long but the one problem ive always had is that i cant do photo-realistic or extremely detailed work due to the thickness of the markers and also not being able to shade my images properly.
...HOWEVER...
ive just tried out this NEW METHOD (actually its just new to me) and its a nice change from what ive been doing. now i can transfer the image directly onto the shoe and fill in the colour with acrylic paint. its different and it has its own limitations as well but its more fun because i feel im doing an actual piece of art rather than just filling in colour. and yes its messy and dirty and all but converse shoes inherently have that sort of feel anyway.
and so here's the first of this edition. this one is for danny, my fellow long suffering army buddy (but we finish in 2 days time). its the pin-up girls from MIDWAY games and ive just painted in the rest of the stuff. the inside of the shoes have the typical faded pin-up girl slogans and the red shoelaces completes the look i guess. and also ive put a nice thick glaze over the whole thing to make it nice n shiny (and waterproof).
