How to create a hand drawn look
Step Two: The
hand-drawn look
- Create a
new canvas with a white background, open your picture and put it on top of
that.
- Duplicate
your picture and set the brightness and contrast up to let’s say brightness
+41 and contrast +74 (the contrast should always be way higher than the
brightness, with this you'll have to play because the way it'll look
depends on the picture you've used. A tip, some of the contours should still
be visible somehow like the face, eyes and so on. This step is just for
getting darker accents to the finished picture later).
Your picture might look a bit odd for now but that is just for
highlighting things later.
- Create a
new layer on top of that and use the light grey color with the inverted brush
of the original picture you’ve created in step 1. Duplicate that brushed layer
(that depends on just how much your picture will look highlighted already by
the brushes). Now erase bits and parts of the brightened
layer below to get some contours back. A tip
for this, the background parts of that brightened layer should always be
erased, erasing parts of the face gives it in cases the nose back.
Your picture will look similar to this one here
- To give
it the more realistic look of a pencil sketch, use some stockpics of papers,
folded papers are even better with the folded parts clearly visible, they add some more structure to the picture
and also brighten the picture over the darker grey parts.
This is useful to get a more general highlighting effect.
The stockpics work best if set on overlay and with the opacity turned down to
say under 60%. I’m using a layer of a folded paper right on top of the base
layer of the original picture, set on overlay with an opacity of 58% and a
duplicated layer of that one just below the top layer with the light grey
brush, paper layer set on overlay with an opacity of 21%. The picture will look something
like this
- The
picture itself is finished by now, but you can work with some brushes of paper
or smudges on the picture to give the impression of pencil smudges or even
more structure to the background. I’ve also in this case turned the folded paper into a
brush and used it on top of the layers. And this is my finished artwork.
Like said at
the beginning, the result can vary, depending on the picture you’re using to
begin with but it will look similar to a hand-drawn sketch, either by pencil or
by a pen. Good luck with trying it out.
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