Thor/Loki Shoes

In celebration of going to see Thor: The Dark World yesterday, I painted my shoes once again! This time, I required a bit of research beforehand. Without further ado, the shoes!

 This isn't actually the final product... I actually added in THOR and LOKI on each shoe, but this is a pretty good representation. I'll update later.

 To start this project, I had to paint each shoe with two coats of red/green paint. I decided those were good base colors for Thor and Loki, and since I don't have a favorite of the two of them, I decided to do both.

 This is how it look after two coats. Yes, there are some splotchy bits, but the overall appearance was pretty good.

 I painted Thor's Norse symbol, and Loki's name in Norse runes. This is part of the research I was referring to- Norse runes have debatable sounds and meanings, but this was the best translation I could find. Unfortunately, of the two, only Thor had an actual symbol associated with him.

 At this point, I decided that my painting skills were good enough to paint silhouettes, but not much better than that, so these were my concept sketches.

 Thor turned out better than I was afraid he might.

 When I actually colored him in, I lengthened his cloak, but otherwise, he was how I wanted him.

Loki, on the other hand... I loved his helmet, but his back looked a bit fat. To combat this, in the final part, I added his scepter from the Avengers, and his name balanced things out pretty well, too.

Ta-daa! ;)