My attempt at remaking Neville Brody's Ocean 12

Upon finding Neville Brody's Ocean 12, I decided to try and re-make his work in his style. His image can be seen below- consisting of a number of silhouette's (and shadows) stood on top of a number 11 which is written on the floor. Next to this image a somewhat similar graphic can be found. This time from a 'bird's eye' point of view and with a number 12 replacing the number 11 from the previous image...

In my recreation (which is only half complete) I've tried to include some silhouette's of my own, once again with their own shadows. To start with I used a solid grey for the shadows before realising that using a simple techinque -which is oppacity- looks considerably better. All I did was copied the image before using CTRL + T (free transform) to streach it out thus giving it a more shadow like appierance. Then I would change the oppacity to roughly 30% to give it more deapth. Thankfully this turned out great giving it a very realistic, life like look!

I do not , however, like how the number 11 turned out as -unlike in Neville Brody's work- it doesn't look very  flat. Instead it looks as though it's just been written over the top of a white canvas... For this reason I'm going to play around with this in the hope that I can give it a look similar to that of Neville Brody before continuing ans re-making the 12 section of the image.