The Design ProcessI started out by looking at the different competitions that the fair had to offer. The Kid's Cookie Decorating Contest was one that immediately sparked my imagination. I knew that I had to include a cookie, and that I wanted the little kids to appear as chefs. So I sketched it out on paper, and chose blue as the main color besides those necessary for the cookie. I also wanted there to be diversity in the children, so I made them different. DifficultiesThe only difficulties I had were trying to figure out the tablet and figuring out how having multiple layers affect drawings. Switching between the layers was very hard to get used to.
Who lives in the house you created? Is there a particular reason you picked the parts you did?Although I didn't create a house, I think that because it is a mosque, anyone who practices Islam would spend time in it. I picked the columns because they reminded me of many stick-shaped foods (I chose cinnamon sticks for this one), and I chose to change the lamps hanging from the ceiling because they looked like upside-down cookies. What alterations did you have to make to make it look realistic?I had to use the burn tool a lot so that there would be shadows on the appropriate side of the cinnamon stick columns. I also had to clone stamp the ground so that I could change the window reflections so that they lined up with the newly changed columns. I had to warp the cinnamon sticks so that they would line up with the original column placement, and I had to do the same for the cookie lamps. If you could change anything about the piece, what would you do? I would change the cinnamon sticks. Looking back on it, there are probably many other foods that would have a better texture to add to the columns. I was just looking for something that matched it shape wise, but if I had chosen another food, I could have made the picture look more realistic and interesting.
What problems did you overcome during this project and how?I think the biggest problem that I overcame was the horse butt. That sounds odd, but I had to transplant the horse's butt along with the tail for the proportions to look correct. I had to use the clone stamp a lot on the butt and hind legs so that the wolf's fur looked the same throughout the whole thing. Through a lot of clone stamping, I was able to basically change the wolf's proportions. If you could change anything about the piece what would you do?I think that I would choose a different horse image to take the characteristics from. The tail was extremely hard to Photoshop so that it looked natural. If I had chosen another horse image, the tail might have turned out a little better. I also would have tried to work more on the hooves. I'm not really sure what I could've done, but after staring at them for days, they just seem really unnatural to me. Explain your animal? What is their name/species? How did you come up with this idea?My animal is a mixture of a maned wolf and a horse. I think I would call the new species Chrysocyon caballus. This specific creature's name is Beth. I came up with this idea mostly due to the name of the wolf. Manes are typically on horses, so I immediately thought to mix it with a horse. I figured it already had a "mane" so I wanted to add a tail and hooves, plus the harness for bonus points.
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