Most of the tools used and described here are nondestructive, meaning they don’t change the actual data of the tiny picture elements (pixels) of your image.

Part of the joy of design is experimentation. See if you can create the look of an oil painting or watercolor instead. Adjusting these elements can emulate a drawing with a blue pen, for example. Try adding an adjustment layer with a specific color or changing the blend mode to Color instead of Normal, and see how the drawing changes to look more like a colored-pencil sketch. You can adjust the blending mode of the layers in your drawing to add in or highlight a specific color. The more you do this, the more natural the artwork will look. Use any of the drawing tools available in Photoshop to draw additional lines and rough up the drawing a bit. One way to make a sketch drawing look more natural is to add in some linework or doodles yourself. Try these additional techniques to add more depth and texture to sketch conversions. There are many ways to build your next masterpiece. There are dozens of photo effects and photo editing tools available within Photoshop, so if converting to a sketch isn’t working quite right, don’t give up. Here you get less of a sketch effect and more precision. Pen-and-ink sketches are more precise - with sharp, defined lines, deep blacks, and plenty of negative space. Convert a photograph into a chalk- or charcoal-style drawing to streamline details from the original photograph and add style with heavy, abstract line work. Pencil gives the entire piece a rough look. Replicate the look of a pencil sketch by converting a photo into something that resembles the looseness and lightness of drawing with a pencil. Here are some of the most common options for creating photos in various sketch styles: Apps like Adobe Photoshop give you a variety of choices for building an interesting sketch out of a photo, so it can be difficult to choose the one you want. So you’ve decided you want to convert a photo into a sketch - the next step is deciding what kind of sketch you want to create.

Pencil art