soulache

final part of a three part series.

Part 1 - [link]
Part 2 - [link]

I took around five shots of my other halfs hands, mainly for variation in the fingers. I had fun with the liquify tool in Photoshop, which I used to thin out the fingers and make them look a little more unnatural. Saved me hours of work pushing the fingers about with the smudge tool and then repainting. Liquify for the win!

stock used: [link] [link] and textures found on stock.xchng

The premise behind this is that it is a wall feature in a temple, a dedication to some long forgotten gods or demons or something.