I had a pair of old white shoes that were too grungy to wear regularly. So I gave them a deep wash, then hand painted them with a couple of my favorite One Piece characters, Law and Bepo!
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References
Trafalgar Law, Bepo, Kikoku, and the Heart Pirates Jolly Roger from One Piece by Eiichiro Oda.
Materials Used
I printed off two of the pictures of Law and Bepo (definitely not forgetting to mirror the second picture for the second shoe) and pictures of their jolly roger.
I used acrylic paints, pencil, and an X-ACTO knife.
How I Made It
Before I actually put any design on the shoe, I washed and scrubbed them. They still weren’t too my liking, so I painted the entirety of the shoe (excluding the soles) white with acrylic paint.
I can be very tedious when I want something to turn out right, and since Law and Bepo are some of my favorite characters, I wanted them to be perfect.
I used the X-ACTO to cut around just the edges of the image as well as to cut out the design on Law’s shirt (that part is important). Then I tape the design where I want it on the shoe, and use a pencil to trace the outline AND inside the shirt design. Then I start the painstaking process of cutting of the smallest details of the image, putting it back on the shoe, and tracing what ever line I just cut off. It was important to cut out part of the design on the shit, so we could use that part of the tracing to line up the picture every time we had to redraw a new line. The more and more you cut away, the harder it can be to remember where the picture goes.
Once I drew the main outlines of the picture, I probably could have freehanded the details, but I’m a perfectionist, so little every circle on his hat and every wrinkle on his shirt, I would cut out of the picture and trace it onto the shoe. (And even though it’s not quite in the picture, the same image is on the outside of both shoes. That means I had to repeat this process twice.)
I repeated the same process with the jolly roger, but this took far less time. Then I use pieces of masking tape for the crosses on the back of the shoe which were meant to replicate the pattern on Law’s sword.
After that was the easy part: using acrylic paint and paint markers to trace over all of the pencil lines and fill black in on the back and side of the shoe.