The making of Gill's Deep Sea Diner, step by step...
step 1 of 5
Painted the BG. Made a black mask of the city. Placed real diner inside the bus. Hue/saturation dodge/burn.

step 2 of 5
Added buried statues, coral, ruined car, colluseum. Added sheen to windows. Made signs in Illustrator. Hue/saturation dodge/burn.

step 3 of 5
Made the bubble. Added sharks. Once again made the neon sign in Illustrator then brightness/contrast and blurred a separate layer underneath.

step 4 of 5
Painted kelp using the "grass" brush. Then liquified to make wavy and then hue/saturation dodge/burn. Created sunrays by applying a radial blur to a white circle then painting out streaks.

step 5 of 5
I made a few recent changes: Made a black mask of BG sharks, added a stingray, enlarged sharks in FG and made a bubble paintbrush to paint in some bubbles. Hope I didn't overdo it!

final result

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