Here’s a look at my painting process for a pair of custom Str Wars shoes featuring Darth Sidious/Emperor. On this last painting stage, I finished painting the left shoe hand area and then moved on to painting in the Sith electricity.

In honor of Prince’s birthday, I decided to create this painting inspired by the Parade time period. I drew inspiration from the Parade album, Under the Cherry Moon movie, music videos and concerts along with Alphonse Mucha & Mondo Posters for the design of this of this tribute piece.
Everyone come behold
Christopher Tracy’s Parade
Goodness will guide us if love is inside us
Happy 64th Birthday Prince!
Here’s a look at my painting process for a pair of custom Star Wars shoes featuring Darth Sidious/Emperor. On this painting stage, I started painting the right shoe front face area. one the face area was finished up, then I moved on to painting the hood and robe area which completes this painting stage.
Here’s a look at my painting process for a pair of custom shoes featuring Darth Sidious/Emperor. Painting process one starts with taping off both shoes so I can paint the star fields first before working on the image of the Emperor.
The star field is achieved using Liquitex free style brushes. I love these brushes because they give such a great random splatter effect.
After using the Liquitex free style brushes to create the star field, I moved on to adding a glow to various stars and adding bursts around the shoes. Then I painted in the main white base shape of the Emperor on both shoes. Once that dried overnight, I put down the pencils and then outlined the Emperor for each shoe.
Here’s a look at the all finished up traditional/digital hybrid Batman Movie Poster illustration inspired by The Batman Movie.
Overall, I enjoyed experimenting with new different techniques than I usually use to create my artwork. From the traditional painting of Batman and the building he standing on, to the digital techniques used to create the background sky, buildings and rain.