I didn’t quiet like the series I did previously, so I started searching for other source images on Google. Then, I found this website that has many photos of the International Monkey King Troupe.

I then pick this image of the monkey king as my source image.

I opened up this source image as my background layer with Photoshop, and I duplicated it. Then I used cut and rotate to move his arm to the position I want, and I cloned the background where the hand used to be. Also, I replaced the hand and the bow using mask on another layer which gives me this…

Then I used Hue/Saturation and variations in the adjustments menu to try to match the tone of the hand with the rest of the image, and I also added on the violin. After I a few adjustments with the color, I ended up with 2 final versions…

With this version the lighting on the violin is too little which seems to disappear in the background

This one looks fine when it is small like this, but on the actual print, the lighting on the violin is too bright and the white on the bow seems to dim.

I find the most difficult part in the whole process of this project is to search for images that matches with the angle of my other images. My computer got virus attacks while I was looking for images online, sign…have to re-install my Windows again.