1.) Who lives in the house you created? Is there a particular reason you picked the parts you did?
> Instead of a house, I did a restaurant. With this in mind, the people that would come and go would be customers of the restaurant in a burger. When researching parts to use in this project, I kept the shape of the burger in mind. There weren't many rounded architectural elements that were appropriate to the project, so I did the next best thing and decided to use a corner restaurant. The bacon road was kind of an impulse that wouldn't leave me alone. The parking meters found their way into the picture due to it being a restaurant! It's the city, so their has to be parking meters somewhere right? As far as the chicken nugget stars go, I thought it would be a nice touch and create an illusion of a rather small distance between the ground and the sky. The cutting board in the background provided a very nice addition as well, and I thought that it added to the aesthetic.
2.) What alterations did you have to make to make it look realistic?
> In order to make the piece look somewhat realistic, I had to use an excessive amount of layer masks, blurs, smudges, sharpens, and layer groups. It was quite an interesting experience, might I add. The smudges and blurs allowed the different sections to better connect and flow. Some of the effects were a complete accident and surprisingly, they turned a lot better than I would have thought! It's like the well-known comical reference of, "Hit all the buttons!" I guess that in-theory, that approach worked!
3.) If you could change anything about the piece, what would you do?
> As with any PhotoShop art piece that I have done, I wish that I could have gotten the project off the ground quicker. Choosing pictures to work with and the amount of layering it takes as well, is very challenging. However, this project was really fun... Even if it made me extremely hungry!!!
> Instead of a house, I did a restaurant. With this in mind, the people that would come and go would be customers of the restaurant in a burger. When researching parts to use in this project, I kept the shape of the burger in mind. There weren't many rounded architectural elements that were appropriate to the project, so I did the next best thing and decided to use a corner restaurant. The bacon road was kind of an impulse that wouldn't leave me alone. The parking meters found their way into the picture due to it being a restaurant! It's the city, so their has to be parking meters somewhere right? As far as the chicken nugget stars go, I thought it would be a nice touch and create an illusion of a rather small distance between the ground and the sky. The cutting board in the background provided a very nice addition as well, and I thought that it added to the aesthetic.
2.) What alterations did you have to make to make it look realistic?
> In order to make the piece look somewhat realistic, I had to use an excessive amount of layer masks, blurs, smudges, sharpens, and layer groups. It was quite an interesting experience, might I add. The smudges and blurs allowed the different sections to better connect and flow. Some of the effects were a complete accident and surprisingly, they turned a lot better than I would have thought! It's like the well-known comical reference of, "Hit all the buttons!" I guess that in-theory, that approach worked!
3.) If you could change anything about the piece, what would you do?
> As with any PhotoShop art piece that I have done, I wish that I could have gotten the project off the ground quicker. Choosing pictures to work with and the amount of layering it takes as well, is very challenging. However, this project was really fun... Even if it made me extremely hungry!!!