Shoe Collage

For this collage I was inspired by my great friend, the converse high-top. I'm not much of a high heel wearer....I find them extreme and way too hard to walk in.

 

My focal point is the red converse shoe. Besides text your eyes are drawn to the color red first, next orange, yellow, etc., all the way around the color wheel. And not only is it a dynamic color but it pops against black and white, which are not colors but the exact opposite in hue. And there's contrast. There isn't a shoe that's bigger than the converse one, and also it's the only TENNIS SHOE. The rest are just high heels. When using the rule of thirds I debated putting my shoe further up on the line, but then I realized that I wanted the line to draw your eyes down to see the converse, not have the converse lead you throughout the picture.

 

I have evidence of lines in my collage by using a black and white gradient I created a linear line between the top left corner and the bottom right. The only shoe that breaks up that line is the Converse, for the purpose that if you were to follow the line there would be the focal point.

 

In my collage I saw a lot of the magic wand tool, through quick selection and its normal function because I had to make everything freefloating. I then free transformed each shoe and rotated it in order to make them fit together more like puzzle pieces.

 

I chose just a simple background gradient because converse shoes are simple, and most high heels are rather extravagant so I wanted that balance to be there. White on Black and Black on White. Just so the shoes would overall pop.

 

 

Done