Weekly Photoshop assignment - Surreal!

When we first got this assignment i was super excited, surrealism.. How can you go wrong! The strange, the weird and the wacky, with surrealism, anything goes and because of this it felt like we had a lot more freedom with this. The more i realised how open and broad this could go the less and less ideas i got, until some time over the weekend a dash of ideas sprang to mind, all triggered when i saw a man walking a dog in a pushy trolley looking thing. Swapped heads? Dogs with human characteristics? the possibilities are endless.  

Once i had a few things flowing (Time and a teapot in this case) i decided to do your typical surreal-desert-dream state-messed up-doesn't really make sense-sorta thing and quite liked the result, need to work out and design what that cluster of arms and legs are doing in the middle but if i can perfect a few things with this then i might go ahead with this for my final idea. 

Same sorta idea again with this one, just trying out different techniques. White noise and faulty tv signals were my main goal and effect for this one, mainly just a test to see what could be done. 

I liked my original idea so decided to work more on that. The aim was a digital surreal time driven cyber desert of strange-ness. Yeah chucked all my ideas together really and this was the result. I guess i am pleased with it, could've been painted more i guess and worked more on the body but hey, it's surreal right?

This was my more 'final' version, felt it was a little cluttered. I was quite happy with the actual design because it is pretty much exactly how i pictured it, i only wish i spent more time actually painting the details and shadows, obviously the main focus here is quite flat. Other then that, this weeks task was interesting and a pleasure to research.

Glitched out world, binary and missingno, shaken not stirred.