I wanted to make a bday gift for my better half and decided to customize converse shoes.
As I know my better half is very fond of the Beatles, I printed out their faces.
Portraiting is hard! I used a technique where you cover the shoe with matte medium and apply the portrait. Then you rip it off and it "magically prints out".
Thats in theory!
It doesnt print out! It just leaves a faint black outline you need to go over completely. But the faint outline served as a guide. These shoes took me 9 hours to customize. started at 11 am, finished by supper.  Here are the creation steps.

After tearing it off, I noticed the ugliness of it. Ah well... After working a bit to clean it up I drew it by hand, using the faint guidelines.


On the other sneaker I wanted to draw the Beatles iconic road crossing. This was done entirely by hand.
And then I decorated the other parts of the sneaker.