Day 30

The psychedelic hand waves goodbye to all.

It has been a fun challenge and I wish good luck to all in the final contest.

Day 29

Cyclops

Day 28

Flamingo

Day 27

Little Rick

Day 26

Mr. Sun

Candle holder with flash backlight.

Day 25

Getting into Skully.

Day 24

Drowning in my own milk.

Day 23

 Nothin' says lovin' like something from the oven

Day 22

This looks good right here.

For a bonus shot today we have David and I.

Day 21

Live Long and Prosper.

(Quick one today, not enough time.)

Day 20

Flicking Philly

Day 19

Power to the People!

Day 18

Today I was playing with back lighting

Day 17

Playing with trains.

Day 16

I got you under my thumb.

For givmemo a quick step by step explanation:

Day 15

Playing with dangerous power lines today.

Day 14

Today everything is OK.

Day 13

My pet Dragon. I had to resort to getting out my toys today.

Day 12

One of my old tools a Stanley #36 1/2 R Ruler

Do you measure up?

Day 11

Mr. Hand peers deep into the crystal ball today, maybe seeing what the heck to take a picture of tomorrow.

 Oh look, things are looking up!

There is a lot of potential for this shot.

Here are some pictures of the beauty dish I made from a restaurant mixing bowl. 

Day 10

Remember the The Thing on the Adam's Family TV Show? He stopped over for a visit today.

Revised 1/29

Day 9

Since I am home today during the daylight I thought I would play shadow puppet.

Day 8

The Fist

I am using natural light today.

Day 7

The basic hand.

 The basic hand x 5

Day 6

I am drawing today.

WIP on sketch, I will update as I go.

Bonus shot today

Day 5

Today we have the classic point, a pistol or the letter L in sign language.

 

 

for those of you who are into the wild and crazy, here is the rare pointer bird.

Day 4

I think I must be a little spaced today. Oh well it is the 4th day of the challenge  :D

I quote from the rules:

5.Unlimited photo editing and combinations will be allowed. Go nuts! It's your chance to get creative.

Day 3

A little Frank Sinatra to set the mood...

 "What's the matter? You look like you've been on a hayride with Dracula." 

Ruby (Patricia Farr) to Phillip Raven (Alan Ladd) in THIS GUN FOR HIRE (1942)

Hand as photographed before I "took liberties" with it.  :D

 I couldn't resist a sketch of this one too.

 and just a touch of color...

Day 2

PEACE

I am taking the opportunity during the challenge of photographing my hand to use the pictures as sources for my drawing. This year I have decided to become more active in the illustration forum at Worth and teach myself more about digital illustration. So on these straight forward shots I will also be doing a digital sketch using the photo as a reference. Don't worry Morporkian and Whalelight the "eyes" are coming!

Day 1

The human hand is a great subject to photograph. It is very easy through expert posing and lighting to evoke tremendous mood from just a photo of the hand. Even a male hand with the proper posing and post processing can look female. What do you think?

The Draconian 30 Day Challenge is just hours away!

I am going to do a series of photos of my hand for this challenge. Here is a digital drawing of my hand as a teaser.