Pencil Drawing Trick with Photoshop - How?

colinr

I saw a post on the web where a portrait photo of a child's face had been rendered as a pencil (or charcoal?) drawing

Can anyone point me to a tutorial on this

Many thanks

saurora

This depends on the software you use for processing. If you use Photoshop you would go to Filter>Sketch>charcoal. Different softwares have different "artist" filters within the programs.

SloYerRoll

A link would be helpful.
Was is vector or raster art?
Sounds raster, but w/o seeing or knowing for a fact. There's too many resources out there to point you in the right direction yet.

EDIT: I'm a real genius sometimes. I just looked at the title. Post an example anyway and go from there.

colinr

Pencil Drawing

SloYerRoll wrote:

A link would be helpful.
Was is vector or raster art?
Sounds raster, but w/o seeing or knowing for a fact. There's too many resources out there to point you in the right direction yet.

I will try and find the post and hopefully you can assist - thanks for your post

PamR

Here's a good pencil sketch tutorial for you. It's by Bryan Duckett:

http://www.duckettphoto.com/lessons/pencil/pencil01.htm

colinr

This is the One!

PamR wrote:

Here's a good pencil sketch tutorial for you. It's by Bryan Duckett:

http://www.duckettphoto.com/lessons/pencil/pencil01.htm

Thank you so much for your post - this is the tutorial I am looking for - I have yet to try it but based on the results shown I am going to enjoy trying this out

You made my day -

Hope the other folks who kindly gave suggestions will enjoy this tutorial also

GJMPhoto

Getting a "Hedcut" look
I was looking for a "Hedcut" look like the Wall Street Journal sketches (WSJ actually has a department of artists drawing those by hand, btw. There is NO straight forward PS way of doing it)...

I came across this technique in a book by John Beardsworth which you might want to try...it's several steps, but I created an action which I used when producing over 200 of these for an annual report...

Here are a few treatments I put up for you: http://www.garymorgenphotography.com/gallery/2924435

1) Start with a portrait
2) Duplicate the image layer
Set the blending mode to Color Dodge
Name it 'Blur'
3) Invert the Blurred layer (the image will be white)
4) Apply a Gaussian Blur to the inverted layer
The blur radius determines the amount of detail you'll see. The result is a colored line sketch

- You can stop there if you like...or...
5) Create a Threshold adjustment layer
Slide the slider until the drawing fills in to your liking
You can use as many threshold layers as you like with layer masks to seperate where the effects take place

- You can stop there if you like (my action did) ... or... colorize it like a cartoon:
For each primary color you want to use:
6a) Add a layer
Set the blending mode to Muliply
6b) Set the foreground color to a primary color - make the background white
6c) Paint the area you'd like to color with that primary color (brush or whatever)
6d) Choose Image>Adjustements>Threshold and drag the slider to the left until the primary color disappears (the color is now white)
6e) Execute Filter>sketch>halftonePattern
Set the pattern to Dot
Push the contrast slider to the far right
Adjust the size to match the image area
Click OK

Repeat 6a-e for each color you want to work with...

colinr

Headcut

GJMPhoto wrote:

I was looking for a "Hedcut" look like the Wall Street Journal sketches (WSJ actually has a department of artists drawing those by hand, btw. There is NO straight forward PS way of doing it)...

Thanks for this - I will try this and surprise some friends with their new look

Should make an interesting change from traditional photos