Artist statement: For this piece I wanted to further my representation of different people’s lifestyles through shoes. I decided to draw these shoes because they always invoked so much emotion in me. I changed the positioning of the shoes and the angle to make the composition more interesting and to give the viewer different angles of the bottle shoes. To create this piece I used techniques such as layering, stippling, and blending to create texture and detail. I made the shoes darker than the background to emphasize. My artistic choices enhance my message by bringing current global issues to light, such as poverty, and where able to successfully display this through lots of layering and stippling. I used the layering and some stippling to create some dirt for the feet. If I were to do thi again, I would maybe want to make the background a little darker… while I like how it turned out, I feel like it looks so washed out in the picture. Overall I like this piece a lot.