“Air Force 1” Illustration

A personal illustration playing around with the idea of combining Nike’s Air Force 1s and the aesthetic of WWII bomber planes. For this, I researched plane paint schemes, decals, pilot costumes, payloads, as well as classic pin-up paintings from that era. I then tried to create an amalgam of elements which felt authentic, while still putting my own spin on them. Done within Photoshop mostly using vector paths, gradients as well as other layer effects in order to keep it’s resolution high as was scaled, the final illustration ended up being a whopping 23.4 x 33.1 inches (A1).