This is my shadow project. I chose a piggy bank because i wanted to have something different then a can or a bottle. Using gradients and layer a managed to get the shadow effect. However one of my biggest problems was dealing with the gradient for some reason it just didn't want to fade to black instead it wanted to fade to yellow, but a quick restart fixed that. I wanted to create a background, but any background i tried made it look really wried like it was out of place or it looked to small or to big.