Shoe Designs

[D.Choe]

I was walking around the mall looking for a birthday present for my friend then something caught my eye.

I passed by Payless Shoes and saw some plain white shoes and said to myself, "hmmm I wonder what I could do with those"

Anyway I snagged a pair for $20 and was thinking what to do with them.

After a couple of hours I thought of something simple yet intriguing. I had a wallpaper of the rising sun and it looked badass as hell so it was kind of an inspiration for the design.

I got to work on the shoes and I like what I did so far. Obviously they're not some baller ass shoes cause they're not finished yet but wanted some feedback on what else I should do like add kanji, other japanese stuff, etc.

I was thinking about putting Ni-hon in kanji on the tongue somewhere in the middle but I haven't decided if that'll look good or not.

Also I'm going to put a red sun on the back and plan on filling in the very top part of the shoe red.

Later on I want to get some sneakers and do some tagwork on it, but for now I just wanted to see how I would do with a simple design. Any other thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated, negative or positive.

Thanks in advance

[ueyedgr8tness]

I like it bro damn u azn ppl or creative..

[D.Choe]

thanks man I wanna do some crazy ish later but for now just trying to see what basic things I can do

I'll post up more pictures of the finished product hopefully by tomorrow

I might be sportin these kicks at the meet ha

[D.Choe]

ok I lied I got bored and finished off what I was going to do

should I leave it as it is or add some more stuff?

[13Bracer]

hahah damn i would have never thought..
but good sh1t:goodjob:

[chinitoxamor]

niceeeeeee, i woulda thought of it if i saw the shoe lol, im into art, lmk whats up with any other new art you gonna create

[The Youngn]

if you used washable markers you could wash them and redo them in a different style all the time so it gives the impression that you have a million pairs of shoes

[Yellowwasabi]

now do a pair of air force 1's like that

[MistaCee]

Nice I wanna paint my white dunks

[speedminded]

hrmm...

http://www.myairshoes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/vansrisingsun.jpg

http://www.sneakerfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/vans2.jpg

[Scrappy]

id say outline the red in a silver sharpie to fix the lines and make it stand out more ;) but thats a girls opinion. besdies that they are cool i wanna do something neato!!

[speedminded]

id say outline the red in a silver sharpie to fix the lines and make it stand out more ;) but thats a girls opinion. besdies that they are cool i wanna do something neato!!poke poke.

[D.Choe]

hrmm...

http://www.myairshoes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/vansrisingsun.jpg

http://www.sneakerfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/vans2.jpg

after I did my shoe I was wondering if someone had done them already and did a google image search and those are what I saw

although they're similar I think the lines flow a little better on my design


id say outline the red in a silver sharpie to fix the lines and make it stand out more ;) but thats a girls opinion. besdies that they are cool i wanna do something neato!!

yea after thinking about it I think I might outline the red in black. good suggestion though

thanks everyone for your input 'preciate the comments

[MistaCee]

hrmm...

http://www.myairshoes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/vansrisingsun.jpg



Hi top van FTW

[D.Choe]

after taking Scrappy's suggestion into consideration, I found a fine tip dark navy blue to outline the red. (sorry I just thought it complimented it better than silver because the sole is navy blue :D )

although it isn't exactly the way I wanted it to come out I think it's decent.

I just need to go over the lines a couple more times to give it a finished look and gonna use a couple more mediums to preserve the color

I know some of the lines aren't exactly straight but I'm freehanding all of this so I'm gonna go back and try to fix them

whaddya think so far?

oh yea- the Dexter logo on the back is coming off but I haven't decided what I'm going to do for that yet. any suggestions?

[JohnnyC.]

Nice dude! Wear them to the meet!
Oh, and you might be able to use a hairdryer to warm up the glue on that Dexter label and just pull it right off.