Finished!

So! Here is my first project, a panoramic image created in Photoshop.

I'm pretty happy with it!

Getting there...

Here is my panoramic image so far:


It's becoming a pretty long process, I have so many layers happening! I've started with an image of the layout of the projector screen (the blue and red lines) to keep in mind the shape of the final output in Horse Bazaar. The corner will be just before halfway. It will keep it to a 'textbook' style, with the males of the species on one side and females on the other. Then I've found images of humans on the internet. I've used models because they work well aesthetically  I guess, and because they make a good blank canvas:

Then I'm layering in anatomical diagrams, and feathers from images of birds and feathers. I'm putting in text too, to make it look more like a reference book.

Working on project 1.

So with my layering/anatomy idea I've decided to try and incorporate another element - also stemming from  our family reference book collection:
A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia by Simpson and Day. Known to us as 'the bird book', it's another book I liked as a kid (yes, very cool).

I want to create a combination of human and bird elements, creating a mythical selection of human-bird creatures, in the style of a reference book like this. Time to start photoshopping!