How to Draw a Converse “Chuck Taylor” Shoe in Photoshop

Step 27

Duplicate this layer and place it adjacent to the first ring

Step 28

Repeat these last couple of steps again to make the circles but this time contract it by 2px instead of the 3px and duplicate this ring several times

Step 29

Now we will create the inside of the shoe. Grab your pen tool and make this shape and fill it with #ffffff

Step 30

Create a new layer and with 26px soft round brush #b9b9b8 paint on the inner lining like so. Change around the Opacity to create different shades. Erase the unessary areas

Step 31

Create a new layer and with a 8px soft round brush #ffffff, paint along the outer edge primarily at the top

Step 32

Go back to one of your ring layers and duplicate it and place it on top of the inner lining of the shoe. Erase the part of the ring that overlaps the shoe.

Step 33

Create a new layer underneath this silver ring and paint a dark shadow underneath using the paint brush tool. Don’t use black but use a dark gray color.

Step 34 Converse logo

Create a new layer and with your Elliptical Marquee tool make a circle and fill it with white

Step 35

Create a new layer and with a 46px soft round brush #d6d4d4 shade in the circle. Erase the areas that go outside the circle

Step 36

Create a new layer and name it ‘Star’ and grab your pen tool and make star shape and make a selection of it and fill it with #2a355d

Step 37 Stitching

Create a new layer and with your elliptical tool make another circle a little bit smaller than your last one

Step 38

Edit>Stroke

Step 39

Create a layer mask and with a small round brush erase away parts of the circle so that it looks like stitching

Step 40

Grab your Type tool and type ‘Converse’ change the color of the text to #e34f4d. The text that I’m using is called Bou College the size is 8pt.

Step 41

Click the ‘Warp text’ symbol and add this setting

Step 42

Type out ‘All Star’ and add this setting

Step 43

Type out ‘Chuck Taylor’, I’m using a font called Bradley Hand ITC at a 7pt size with a color of #2a355d

Step 44

Go back down to the very first circle layer and add this drop shadow

Step 45

Create a new layer and grab your pen tool and draw a line from the edge of the inner lining to the outside tip of the shoe. Make sure your paint brush tool is set at 2px hard round brush #f2f2f2. Select ‘stroke path’ after right clicking the pen tool line.