Amy tried to draw...

Sometimes I convince myself I can draw, and sometimes my drawings come out pretty awesome, most of the time however they don't.
Here's a post full of drawings I've made that somehow turned out pretty awesome.

 So this first image is actually the most recent attempt I've made, It's a drawing of someone from a photograph by one of my favourite photographers on flickr [click here], I felt compelled to draw him for some reason, most likely it was his wonderful hair.

Ah, these were drawing's of ceramic statue's I'd found about online, my apologies I cannot remember the name of the artist or even a link to where I found the image, It was a very cool set of work, the basic principle was that a lot of ceramic dolls are cutesy and always nice, the artist wanted to keep their nice, sweet expressions but do things like rip their guts out and make them hold them like a bunch of flowers or just chop their heads off and rip their brains out, very morbid, but rather intriguing. [relevant link]

Just a simple doodle, I quite liked drawing his stubble, and attempting to draw accurately from life... never again, I'm horrendous at keeping true to form.

oh, and my concentration levels in biology lessons hmm.

(bonus the rainbow was from a simple chromatography demonstration in a chemistry lesson)

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Experiment: Redscale

I tried using redscale film the other day (made it by putting the film into another canister backwards pssch why would I bother buying it when I had a spare roll lying around?). 

The problem was that I've never used redscale before and I didn't expose it properly and got confused about it. I expected them to come out red-y/orange-y/yellow-y as many examples I'd seen.

As I said before I'm not sure if I should have under or over exposed and because i'm an idiot I didn't write down my exposures/what ISO I shot at etc I'm going to have to do another trial to get it right. Amy you're a pleb...

These three images are all the same just edited slightly differently in photoshop. unsure if I should bother with them or just put them in a folder called 'failures' 

So this one is the original redscale image, as you can see the red came through as expected but clearly the exposure wasn't right as you can't see much detail.

I went and turned the image black and white and lo and behold a lot more detail was revealed, I guess the colour distracts you eyes from the tone of an image so you miss detail for colour (actually I remember learning about that in biology in your eye you have cone cells and rod cells cone cells are more sensitive to colour you have ones that are sensitive red, green and blue light and you need a lot more light to enter your eye to see in colour, and rod cells are more sensitive to any kind of light and work in low light to distinguish between light and dark I think. did that even make any sense?)

and this last image was just a bit of fun, playing around to see if i could get detail out but with colours, it worked(ish) but I lost the distinctive redness and there was a lot more noticeable noise than the black and white version.

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