hand coming out of wall

[roger901]

I want to have a hand appear to come out of a wall. Of course, hand and wall would be on separate layers. Can anyone help?

Thanx
roger901

[rich2005]

This is really going to depend on how artistic you are. Can you draw everything from scratch?

I am no artist, so I might go this route.

1. Find/make a brick wall. I used a tilable pattern but a photograph of an actual brick might work.

example https://i.imgur.com/HECEWfb.jpg

2. To add some realism, add some perspective. The Gimp 2.10 unified transform tool works very well. When that is set up cut out a hole in the wall.

https://i.imgur.com/3NjSSuu.jpg

3. Give it some depth, paint in ends of bricks, give them a bit of shading.

https://i.imgur.com/mdQvG8L.jpg

4. When thatis done add your hand. I found a superman fist that was easy to cut out very quickly but I think finding a suitable hand with some perspective might be difficult. Back to how good an artist are you.

https://i.imgur.com/iu9Ew4S.jpg

best of luck.

[roger901]

I' want to try to replicate the look of this sculpture with digital images.

roger901

[Blighty]

Not too difficult at all.

1) Have an image with 2 layers. Wall is lower layer. Figure is upper layer. Like this:
https://imgur.com/a/xN7tdGo

2) On the upper (figure) layer, create a Layer Mask and accept the default white.

3) With the Layer Mask active, paint with black to hide parts of the figure. If you make a mistake, no problem, just paint with white to re-expose parts of the figure.
https://imgur.com/a/DFDZNDP

As Rich said, requires some artistic talent.

[roger901]

Great...thanx guys.

roger901