Rejected composition sketch for the assignment 'fantastic pets and their people' for a course intended to introduce me to Adobe Photoshop as an alternative to traditional media. My fantastic pet is Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, a creature of Aztec religion and Mexican myth. Here Quetzalcoatl's young owner leans against a physical wall, as opposed to the purely design-oriented abstract background of the final drawing. Tablet sketched in Adobe Photoshop.

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