Cartoon
Cartoon
Saturday-morning colour, painted panel by panel.
Flat fields, clean black outlines, and the palette mixed to match a memory rather than a rerun. A cartoon reads as cartoon because there is no shading and no brush texture in it, which is the hardest thing to do by hand and the whole reason these are painted rather than printed.
Why flat colour is the hard part
A cartoon is even fields of one colour, edge to edge, and a hard line around them. A printer does that without thinking. A hand does not: a single thick coat shows every brush mark and cracks at the first crease, so the colour has to be built in thin cured passes until it dries as one flat field that bends with the shoe.
Fred Steps is a whole upper of one orange with black marks over it, and every square of that orange has to be as even as the next. Ink Sole goes the other way, redrawing the shoe as its own comic frame in turquoise inside pulled black outlines. Same discipline, opposite result.
Bring the one you grew up with
Most cartoon pairs are commissioned rather than chosen from a gallery. Bring a character, a title card, a colour scheme from one particular episode, and your artist paints your version of it, freehand.
The price does not move with the character or the number of colours. One flat figure, whatever you ask for, is Rs 45,000 on a new pair.
Questions, Answered
Can you paint a specific cartoon character?
Yes, freehand from a frame you send. We paint a personal commission for you; we do not carry character artwork as stock or sell it as licensed.
How much is a cartoon pair?
A signature commission is Rs 45,000 on a brand-new Air Force 1, whatever is painted on it. Painting a pair you already own is Rs 15,000.
Will the colours crack when I wear them?
No. Flat fields are built in thin cured layers so they move with the shoe, and the pair is sealed and waterproofed, which is the step cheap acrylic skips.