Custom Shoes Hip Hop Stars
By Danyell Bulter of Custom Apparel LLC, DBA Dangerous Art Customizing
Danyell owns and operates Custom Apparel again. Masking tape, Alcohol and an Exacto
LLC, in Columbus Ohio and has over ten years knife along with a good double action airbrush
in the Airbrushing Tee business. The following are the basic tools we’ll be using to customize
How To is just one the ideas Danyell uses to shoes.
keep his customers coming back again and
Preparing the shoes for artwork is eas- As we are painting on a black shoe we Now to create some unique designs on
ily accomplished by using rubbing alcohol first need to add a base of white so the the sides I cut some random shapes out
over the areas you will be adding artwork. colors we will be using will show up. Cre- of plain white paper, which I will use as a
This will help soften the leather and take atex white sprayed thru an Iwata HP-BCS shield. I start off the design part using Cre-
the gloss off the shoe so the paint will bet- works nicely for this. atex violet and come back and fade black
ter adhere. Finally we’ll mask the areas back into the edges.
off we don not want to get paint on with
masking tape and we are ready to paint.
Shoes have curves and a black shoe can As I spread out painting the image I make With the entire design mapped out we will
be hard to draw on so I free hand this part sure to leave some of the image darker start detailing with grey and toning with
of the design. Crazy! Not really black is a in areas were grey will be added. I make black. I use the toe of the shoe too get the
forgiving color because you can paint it white heavy in areas that will have high- shape of the face.
back black; don’t try this with white. I start lights.
with the center of the image and spread
out like branches on a tree. Keep in mind
the object is to make similar shaped from
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