So my brother decided he too would like some customised Converse shoes.
It is really becoming my speciality, you know.
I used the same things as usual.
First coat of paint: Fabric Medium and acrylic paint.
Other layers: paint again.
Some details: black Sharpie marker.

Enjoy.







Oh the theme: Lord of the Rings.

I do not own the rights to anything done on the shoes, most of it is a reproduction.

Hiya folks
Been REAL busy with school and work so didn't have time to make something cool.
But then my little cousin wanted sneakers and I couldn't refuse!

So here it is.
One shoe is inspired by BBC's Sherlock and the other by Doctor Who
I'm very happy I got to try the "galaxy" effect with the Doctor Who shoe, I'm happy how it turned out.

The Sherlock shoe: on side is the London skyline and well... Sherlock. The other side is blood and 221B (baker street). Under the laces is the print on the wall at Sherlock's pad.
Took me about 5 hours.

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.