Horror film project

I decided to do the word "demon" for my wordPlay project in Typography class. It was a simple concept but I didn't expect it to be a lot of work--I thought that I could easily do something in Illustrator, but when I showed it to the teacher, he advised that I should make it more realistic, more like a photograph and look at shadows from photographs.

I did take photographs and worked with how the shadows look. I ended up trying to duplicate the shadows on the wall and the grainy look of noir horror films like Nosferatu.

I hope I did it justice and here it is: