Photoshop Painting: Curry

FINISHED!

PHEW! This took hours!!! I tried to make it as realistic as I could, but the rice still looks kinda fake.

I wanted to show step by step of what I did.

I wanted to start making backgrounds in photoshop, I kinda want to do a hiatus on drawing characters.

I thought a good way to start is trying to copy backgrounds of Ikebukuro in Durarara, but I failed because I don't know much about shadows in a scenery.

So I practiced with painting food first, before I start doing backgrounds.

Here's the real picture: [link]

QUESTION: Why does this deviation have Camera Data? I didn't use a camera! I photoshoped this!