While coloring your characters you want to leave room for bleeding which will be your worst enemy. So make sure you have a good supply of markers or at least a new pack like I used. The canvas does hold a fair amount of marker inc. I bought this pack of markers only for this project. *Here is one of the shoes as I sketched it with pencil. My girlfriend suggested using small hand towels and stuff them into the toe, this might work well but I preferred the hands on method. *If you don't have the above cardboard inserts I just used my hand to support the canvas from the inside while I drew on the outside. *I am no artist with markers but if you have a pair of those cardboard shoe inserts (you know they often come in shoes when you first buy them.) THEY WILL BE INCREDIBLY HANDY. So I knew I could only put 2-3 Characters tops. For example my "Focus" points where the toes. *Don't try overloading your focus points. *Don't worry about messing up with the pencil - THEY ERASE FROM CANVAS! The pack of markers I used where only a 10-Pack. We want them to look like a matching pair. *I recommend using a limited color pallet. Use a pencil to lightly sketch your characters into position For this particular example of using characters I had to determine where to place them and we need to consider the layout of the shoes as well. Use something that interests you and have fun with it. I being the huge nerd I am picked Marvel Comic/DC comic characters. Pick wisely because this is not coming off. Now that we have a clean slate we need to plan what we are going to put on the shoes. Trust me this is impressive compared to how they looked. There are some "faint" staining still present but as long as you can get them close to white as possible is all that matters.
***in the picture here you might see that my insole fabric has separated from the sole of the shoe, thus don't use a washing machine or drying machine - I speak from experience*** I did this process twice and my shoes were bad so normally the 1 time would take care of any normal wear. I then proceeded to clean them off with an old dish rag. I let them soak in the water for roughly 30 minutes. I put the canvas shoes in my kitchen sink with about half a cup of bleach and dawn dish washing liquid. I recommend using a empty bathroom or kitchen sink because using a washing machine can separate fabric from the canvas. This could very well be the most important step in the process. the marker will not hold to the canvas thus ruining the entire project. If there are outside contaminates present such as grass, mud, oils etc. We want the shoes to be as clean as possible so that the markers can have a nice even color and that the actual drawings will hold up better. Go ahead and plan what kind of design you would like on your shoe.įor those who are still with me at this point lets get started.
#PROJECT CANVAS SHOES FREE#
(This took me about 3 good times because again, they were almost black.) If you just bought the shoes you won't need to do this but if you have wore them several times outside or for yard work you might want to go ahead and clean them just so that when you start the design process you will have a clean slate free of chemicals or oils.Īs I stated before if you are just now taking the shoes out of the box you can pretty much skip the cleaning step. Now like I said my shoes were damaged badly so I don't know how long the overall shoe will last me but my first step was to wash/bleach them to a clean surface. Materials:ġx Pair of Canvas Shoes (Mine had no laces thus making a larger working canvas but any canvas shoe will work)ġx Pack of non-washable permanent markers (I personally used a multi-color pack of Bic markers from Wal-Mart $7)ġx Can of "Water Proofing" spray (I obtained a great deal at shoe show in my local mall for about $6 - SOFSOLE SILICONE WATER PROOFER) So here is what I bought and what you will need if you are planning on tackling your own canvas shoes. So I figure with a little bit of know how and some basic material I could have a potentially epic pair of shoes here. But anyways, the shoes were badly damaged and I knew for a fact I wouldn't wear them in that condition.
If my memory serves me correctly I think they were $10. Now these are old school canvas shoes that I had bought at Wal-Mart about two years ago. Well, I don't really have much of a back story here other than I accidentally washed white shoes with black shoes and they gave birth to a Frankenstein pile of garbage.
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