Photoshop attempt

PHOTOSHOP

As an attempt to try and make my drawings less sketchy I thought I could turn to photoshop... However this didnt work out as simple a solution as I wished... I CANT USE PHOTOSHOP!!! What should have taken a few hours took a whooooole daaaaay and a lot of stress...

However these are my outcomes...

My first dilema was the simple task of using the selection tools to cut out the tree... I kept missing bits out and somehow it took a very long time and i gave up and asked for help... I listened very carefully to how my friend helped but as soon as she left I was hopeless once again...

This didnt go quite as planned... I wanted to get the blue texture as a background but for some reason only part of it came through even though I swear I had selected everything. 

This is more of what I had in mind however here I didnt know how to get the page portrait rather than landscape...I did google it and still didnt help...

Also I found that the background wasnt the kind of sky blue that I had in mind-event hough it is really interesting

Then I moved on to finding a deeper shade of blue but something happened to the tone of the black lines and they went more greeny and the white in the gaps became obvious

Then I decided to experiment on a busier background from the photos I had taken in the woods. This one works quite well because it is as tangly as the other trees however it does get lost in the background..

This one works well because it contrasts with the straight trees in the background...

Then I moved onto thinking it might work quite well to have it on the background of a wooden floor (showing the use of wood to humans) however it doesnt capture the atmosphere of being in the woods.

Then I thought it would be cool to see what it would look like with the wood in the lines of the tree...however I have decided that this totally destroys the line quality created from the ink and stick.

Then I moved onto looking at a different image. This is originally a pencil sketch but I thought it might look interesting to try it with different coloured line quality- brown.