Graphite Pencil Portrait AKVIS Sketch allows converting any photo into a pencil sketch. The most popular subject for a sketch is a person. You can often see street artists offering to draw a portrait for those who want and showing hand-drawn portraits of celebrities.
A pencil portrait can be a good present for your relatives and friends.
We have chosen a black and white portrait of John Travolta («Pulp Fiction» 1994, «Get Shorty» 1995, «Broken Arrow» 1996, «Face/Off» 1997, «Swordfish» 2001).
Open a portrait photo.
If you use AKVIS Sketch in its standalone edition just run the program and open the original photo.
If you use the plugin version of Sketch open the photo in your photo editor and then call the plugin.
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John Travolta.
Photographer: Andrew Eccles.
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Run AKVIS Sketch with the default parameters by pressing the button  .
The After window will show the resulting pencil sketch.
Adjust the settings.
- Step 1. Increase the value of Size in the Strokes field on 1 unit. The strokes on the drawing will get wider and blurred on edges.
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| Stroke Size = 8 |
Stroke Size = 9 |
- Step 2. Set the parameter Watercolor to 30. As a result the hard strokes on the face, hand and the background turn into light shadows.
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| Watercolor = 0 |
Watercolor = 30 |
- Step 3. Reduce the value of the parameter Midtones Hatching from 100 to 85 to make the hatching of the light areas of the portrait (the face, the hand and the background) less pronounced.
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| Midtones Hatching = 100 |
Midtones Hatching = 85 |
- Step 4. Increase the value of the parameter Sharpen to sharpen the contours as the portrait is a bit too blurred.
If you work with the plugin version, you should firstly apply the changes by pressing the button  .
Now you can save the graphite pencil portrait.
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— Graphite Pencil Portrait