Coffee Kawaii

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I have recently moved into a new place which is very nice but not so good that I have to wait 10 days to get the internet installed.I would usually be spending my time drawing on Iscribble.net and downloading music however the past 4 days have been utter hell.Having no internet really puts into perspective how bored I generally am.Though the one good thing to come out of this boredom was that i have been painting and drawing a lot as appose to digital drawing.I bought 3 canvases and got the acrylics out.The picture above was drawn in black biro and painted with coffee (it smells great).It is not a canvas but a piece of A1 card layered to thicken it up enough to hang on my wall.

Doodles

This is generally what my doodles look like when i spend longer than 2 days with my girlfriend <3

Custom Kawaii Bunny Sneakers

Unfortunately I hadn't gotten round to photographing these sneakers since i finished painting them 2 years ago.They have started to ware away slightly in places, the paint has chipped slightly too.
They were a pair of Duff High Top sneakers i bought a while back and wore for a maybe 5 months ,but stopped wearing when i better /more awesome sneakers were purchased.Then they were left in my ever growing pile of sneakers that i might some day wear again but still haven't in 4 years :P...I'm sure you can relate.
Anyway i got into the whole custom sneaker painting through looking at pairs of them that artists had painted, and were selling on Ebay, and thought you "know what!? I'm gonna have a go at this'.
However at the time i kind of jumped into the deep end with them and didn't really read up on them as much as i should regarding the correct and appropriate media for their creation,and so i chose to use acrylic paint for color, Poska Chalk Marker for the outline and i spray coated both sneakers in spray varnish.All of which were really just media i was already used to, and comfortable using.The outcome being that the finished sneakers are unwearable and will  chip away and perish if worn in outdoor conditions.

Nevertheless my design was based on the Japanese Kawaii style with a side lashing of Street Art.I wanted them to look really cute and neat lined illustrative characters that girls into teapots, cupcakes and Hello Kitty would appreciate.

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