Using PHOTOSHOP LASSO TOOL!
The LASSO TOOL. My indispensable photoshop favorite. Use it for everything from clipping vintage illustrations, hacking photographic figures from out of their normal and boring surroundings, and lately: drawing wierd mod 70's looking linework.
Yes, you heard me correctly: Draw with the Lasso.
HOW TO -- 1. Draw any image, making sure it ends up as a closed shape (connect end point with beginning point. If you can't find the original start, due to a lot going on in the picture, hit 'RETURN' and it will automatically make the nearest beeline to the start, from wherever it's at.)
2. If you are drawing a sun or a cloud, this is a one-step process. Anything else -- just drag the lasso shape off-stage and come back around however you like. Anything off-frame will not show up....if there are still unwanted parts, just use the eraser after, to get rid of the closed-shape part that you didn't want. (This was the case for my horizon-lines & building skylines, etc)
Make sense? I hope. I didn't really bother with taking screen shot of a step-by-step process. I acknowledge that would've really been going the extra mile.
Here's some clips of my components: Above - scan of 1950's children's book on insects. Next - historic photo of building. Then - my inspiration, page outta Anthropologie catalogue from a half-year ago. Also - vintage postcard with cute animal paper dolls. Lastly -- collaging all elements into one landscape, adding moldy paper aging texture (from a scanned old book) and using lasso-tool-generated grey linework to sort of tie it all in and expand the perspective beyond original photo of historic building.
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