Special Edition Shoes

Craft: When I was tweaking it, I smoothed out the circular shapes. Like the rim and the lace holes, I also used the gradients tool on the backboard, also on the lace holes to make it look shinier. As the professor suggested I added some clouds to the background to give it a background, not only a gray color. I used the feather tool on the clouds so they can fade into the gray. I like how that turned out.

Composition: When I used the gradient tool on the backboard, I made it lighter on the bottom, because the light from the camera hit the bottom of the backboard. I place a couple of clouds throughout the picture to show that that is all sky behind the hoop.

Craft: Its shoes in a basketball rim. Which is trying to say abandonment, which people haven't been playing on this playground.


Vanished: With this illustration I just filled in everything with white and I gave it a thick Charcoal stroke. To make it look like a sketching. Lastly I filled in the background black. I choose only the two colors to give it that plan and sketch look to it. I call it Vanished.

Thunder: This being my favorite reproduction, I changed the background to a purple. Than I used the pen to make the thunder bolts. To give it more light I used the gradient on the purple background mixing it with a white. So the white part of the gradient is right in the middle of the thunder. I changed the backboard, because the thunder would reflect off the metal board. I believe this illustration made my concept stronger, because this hoop and shoes don't look old and rusty to give it that abandonment. So the thunder does because it will keep the kids off the court. I call this one Thunder!

High Hoops: With this one I changed the composition the most. I just wanted to make it fun and colorful. I didn't use a specific color scheme. I just used bright colors. When it came to the shoes I wanted to make them the same but different at the same time, so I just did everything opposite of the other shoes. For example the sole of the bottom shoe is orange so for the top shoe I made it orange. I call this one High Hoops