DIY Gothic Patent Boots And Heels.

So, I made these DIY boots and patent heels a while back, they are really simple and add a nice personal touch to old boots or shoes that are starting to look a bit sad for themselves! 

To start off with, you need a pair of boots. (or any type of shoes you would like to goth up) and some paint colour of your choosing. I choose white for my shoes. I would proberbly change the type of paint I used, as I only had a tester tub of sample wall paint to hand. (or rather laying about my flat!) 

I decided that for my heels I wanted to put a spiderweb design on the back of them, I saw this design on a shoe from Tumblr, but I don't know/couldn't afford them at the time, so I decided to just do it myself! For my boots, I wanted to have the spider web design again, and I also wanted to put the Type O Negative logo on the side of one of them and on the other boot  I wanted to have a bat with "Batgirl" written underneath it. 

Picture Found Here.

If you are not so confident/ lazy to just go in freehand, then use a marker pen to sketch out the design before going in with the paint. 

I decided to do it freehand, mainly because I am lazy! I begin the heels first by making three lines. (One going down the back of the shoe and a then a line on either side) I then added in mores and started doing the curved join up lines for the spiderwebs. And that's the High heels done!

For the boots, I did the same this for the spiderwebs as I did with the heels. I then found a picture from Google of the Type O Negative logo. I started off with the Type O symbol which was surprisingly hard to do! I draw the circle and filled it in to make it thicker. I just wrote the bands name under this. Beware of wrinkled leather as it can be a bitch to paint over.

Again for the bat I looked up a picture and drew the outline and filled it in. And then just wrote "Batgirl" underneath. 

So there we are! Its easy, but it takes a steady hand to do! :)

My DIY'd Boots And Heels.