Magazine cover recreation

For this peice, we were asked to recreate a magazine cover of Total Films' Sherlock Holmes magazine. Here is the magazine cover that we needed to recreate:

And Here my recreation of it:

I started off by finding a picture of Robert Downey Jr. with the background behind him, then duplicated the image and erased the background so the i just had him on that layer, so that he could be put in front of the word 'Film', I then added the title of the magazine, testing different fonts to see which one looked most like the font used on the actual magazine. I then added the pugs at the top,by finding images of the characters faces online, and then added text next to them, then i added all the text on either side of the magazine underneath the title. Next i added the text in front of his body, then finally the before the bar code in the bottom right, which i found as an image online, and the logo next to is, which i drew with the circle and the eraser tool.