As I stated in Flickr, "When I took my SP, my vision was for me to be a fairy lulling a unicorn.
Life changed that, and my new motivation was to have it reflect something symbolic to my situation. I appreciate how art provides us the medium to express in subtle and cryptic ways ... :)"
Anyway, my costume was created using 4 different images via Photoshop and the tiger was from a photo I took while at the zoo. Below are some of the the images I used.
Me before I added Snow White garb:
Luckily I had the presence of mind to think of landscape. I pieced this to the photo above to give me room to insert the tiger:
White Bengal Tiger shot I took at the Miami Zoo. Unfortunately, the tiger was profiled, looking straight ahead instead of slightly to the rear (which would've suited the image better), but I had to make do. Since my eyes were not focused from a fully profiled standpoint, I had to place the tiger where my line of vision was, but it still looked off, so I changed the perspective a touch.
In general, I copied and masked everything into place. And then I added rays of light using the white to transparent linear gradient tool, with feathering. I also used the spotlight and omni light found in the rendering option.
Lastly, I used Mulletgod's Retouch Bonanza action to give it cohesion and contrast.
