Partner Portraiture

"Reaching Hands"          Paula Medina          2013

For this project, I copied and pasted different positions of my hand interacting with miniature people (Me, Claudine, Mashal). I found using the Magnetic Lasso Tool incredibly helpful when selecting what I wanted. I used the Burn Tool as well as the Drop Shadow effect and added shadows. The two hands on the left of this picture are the same, and I simply rotated one of them and positioned it above Claudine's hands. I adjusted the lighting and coloring of the hands and the models to make the overall picture look more balanced.
I wanted to make this picture look very playful and comical!