Four Times the Dishes

2022

Photoshop

After a semester of assignments mainly focused on anthropomorphic illustration in Photoshop, this was my final piece for a class called Merging Worlds by Joe McKendry. The prompt was very open ended, just to portray a character convincingly in a space. I opted for this octopus protagonist who is earning his life by washing dishes instead of being served in one of the specials visible on the left. I was still relatively new to Photoshop when I completed this, and learned a lot about rendering surface texture and light through digital media. Each element, from the bottle of soap to the hostess, was referenced from simple Google images and then altered to fit the perspective, lighting situation, and color palette of the rest of the scene.