colour testing

by taking photos of my drawings i can take them into photoshop and start editing them how i would with a photo. the aim was to create a cell like feel so the background was fluid and parts of the form have been blurred to boost the illusion of depth. the colours I've created from the shadows of the paper and different photo filters, color selection , curves, hue and saturation, invert and level filters. using masks I'm able to paint in where i want the effects using a large soft brush i can fade them into each other creating a smooth feel.

creating the gold from the original blue i overlayed some blurred out layers of the same images to create the glow making it less intense on the outside to create a focus point in the middle. then using multiple layers of colour selection and photo filters i was able to tweak it into this rich glowing gold.

although proabaly the most visually interesting the gold one is not my favorite and i much prefer the subtlety of the blue faded one. this was made after the gold one using the same effects blurring out to create depth and adjusting the shadows and noise layers to create a background but i've washed away everything major making the image simple and letting the form do the talking rather having an overpowering colour scheme.
the next stage is to try and take my drawings into processing and begin to make them sound reactive i might be able to recreate this colour scheme in processing if i overlay some png. files of  noise and blur the image in processing but we will have to see as i haven't ventured into image adjusting coding very much.