More experimentation with the hands

This is some experimentation at how I could incorporate the life-lines into the design. I like the effect it has with these simple line drawings connecting the lifelines, inter-weaving them showing the lives being together and then splitting up.

I think this is a poignant point... but I want to see different ways that I could do this, maybe making the lines up of general everyday imagery to show lives through photographs.

I also tried to incorporate the lines into some illustrated typography. This was a quick attempt and will need a lot more working to make it legible.

Following my experiments with using photography to make this heart, I had a thought about how I could make the message clearer... by making one of the hands making up the heart into a skeleton.

This was my first attempt at drawing the hand... however, I realised after I had done it that there was no way that it was going to line up with the photograph.

Following this I decided that the only way to make the heart look perfect was to actually draw the other hand free-hand over the photograph. It worked well.

I decided that something was missing from the photograph of the hand. A lot of detail... it retracts from the poignancy of the image.
I decided to play around with adding line drawings over the image.

It looks a lot better like this, but this was just a trial. I want to add more detail and make the photograph look less photocopied.
I also decided to add a bit of texture for the background until I resolve the actual collage which will make up the final design. I did this by scanning in an old piece of water-damaged paper.

This was effective, but it does not have a meaning yet.

I then decided to see what it would look like with both hands being the skeleton by simply reversing the image. This looked effective but retracted from the actual meaning of the piece.