More Than Meets the Eye

Holy hell, the Transformers are so incredibly painstaking to draw. Doing this pair has given me an immense amount of respect for both the animators of the original animated series and the comic book artists who continue to add detail to the character designs.


The recipient of this pair is a major fan of the original Transformers, specifically the movie that came out in 1986. For this pair, one shoe is Autobot themed and one shoe is Decepticon themed. The leaders of each faction were good choices for the dominant images. Hot Rod and Starscream snuck onto the inside panels.



The backs feature the logos of the respective factions.

Modern Fairytales

Jack wears a hoodie and Ray Bans (a red hood--GET IT?) as he holds up his killer cool beanstalk. Unfortunately, everything is falling down from the Giant's lair, golden-egg-laying-goose and all. Poor goose. It looks so sad and confused.






The wolf just got back from the mall. He picked up his studded belt at Hot Topic, his light green shirt from American Apparel, and his hat from Lids.

When your idea is stolen...

BedazzleKicks stole my damn business idea. Thanks a lot, BedazzleKicks, now the majority of my customers will be wearing glitter instead of marker.

http://bedazzlekicks.blogspot.com/

Dinos 2: Dino Boogaloo

Made for a fan of the first Dino shoes. For this pair, I pushed the bright colors and cartoony feel a little more, trying to get even closer to that childhood educational placemat feel I also played with bringing the T-Rex's body across the right shoe so as to make the design feel unified across two shoes.

Contest winnings!

After my Flying Death Unicorns won the Paint or Thread Custom Contest, I picked out my 12 free shoelaces and free t-shirt from Fully Laced as my prize. They recently arrived. Everything looks awesome. All of my shoes are getting gutted and re-laced with crazy awesome colors. I wore my "My Kicks Break Necks Shirt" today and got tons of comments on it, even leading to me giving out a few business cards for ArtKicks. Thanks to both sites.

Cthulhu

Cthulhu is a demon created by H.P. Lovecraft--possibly his most famous creation. The descriptions of Cthulhu in Lovecraft are vague, but the currently-accepted depiction of Cthulhu is a tentacled face atop a humanoid body and dragon-like wings protruding from the back. Cthulhu's wrath on humanity is described as too horrible to fathom. My own interpretation of its wrath is shown on the left shoe. While I really do enjoy drawing dolphins, it is nice to break out the red fine point marker and draw some blood spatters.

Oceans and Dolphins

Every image on this pair is something I have never drawn before. As it turns out though, I really enjoy drawing both coral reefs and dolphins. The water reflections on the right shoe is one of the most labor intensive images I have ever rendered, but several hours spent covering both shoe and myself in blue worked out pretty well. If these shoes had been a bigger size, I wouldn't have even attempted it.