Vieille Main [WIP]

The human vegetality :
The digital painting Vielle Main is inspired by a few medical pictures about wrinkles and skin aging.
The working images were chosen for the accuracy and anatomical aspect of medical imaging.
The coldness and rigidity of the image are also what motivated my choices

On Vielle Main the study focuses on stiffness and smoothness. For that, I chose to illustrate the hand of an old person who offered me both. Wrinkles allowed me to evoke the suppleness of the skin, while the bones and tendons showed the stiffness of the skeleton.
But the notion of suppleness has became minor because I quickly focused on rigidity. It appeared to me that the fingers gnarled aspect was close to a vegetal condition. And I wanted to give an impression of calcification or petrification.

So, in this study I was particulary interested by the fingers appearance.
The rest of the hand was secondary and only suggested for the moment to not attract attention.