Thievery! - compositing old images into new ones

In my previous post I had some drawings that cannibalised old images. A nice way to both capture a somewhat antique fell and save some work :)

The first on was built on at Scottish engraving with a very fine thunderstorm heaven and a somewhat less well made foreground.

Dunoon Castle Drawn by W.Brown & engraved by W.Miller

On top of that I put an exotic fantasy city.

And the result

Detail non-modified

Same detail modified

On the other image I used a much more subtle approach, and one that did not steal quite as much of the original artist's work. I made a drawing and the coloured it by using bits and pieces of a Hiroshige woodcut. The large areas was cut directly and but together, while the details was ink-stamped.

The woodcut by Hiroshige - Kanbara: Night Snow, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road

This is my drawing

And the stolen shading - as you can see I used some of the trees directly.

And the finished result

I have been at this questionable praxis before. Here is a stolen locomotive:

From this old post

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