Pencil Sketch to draw
For Pencil Sketch I have chosen the image of the woman with the hand by her face, but the other examples are made in exactly the same way. Open your image folder, and bring by drag and drop, the image into Gimp.
Click the little zoom icon in the top right to maximize the photo. Makes two duplicates of the layer by clicking the duplicate button in the layers panel. While the top layer is selected, we change its mode from normal to dodge.
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Then we go to colors and we click invert. We don't see much of our image now, but that is how it should be for now. Go to filters, distort, and click value propagate. Enlarge the dialog box, by moving the cursor on the edge and when it changes in a little double arrow, we can drag it outwards.
Change the mode to black, which enlarges the black areas in the image. If we want, we can click the help button, and then the gimp website will open and we can find more information about this particular subject. Close the website and click ok in the dialog box.
Go back to filters and hit repeat value propagate. Go back to filters again and hit repeat value propagates one more time. Go to colors, desaturate, leave the option lightness active and click ok. Pencil Nothing seems to happen, but when we make the underlying layers invisible, we can see that the top layer is now black and white. Make the layers visible again and activate the middle layer. Then we go back to colors and desaturate.
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We can leave the default settings as they are and click the merge. Now we go to colors and click curves. Here we can adjust the image to our liking. It's important to pay special attention to the black of the lines because the gray areas will be erased later on.
When we feel it's ok, we click ok. Make the brightness around minus 30 and the contrast around plus 40. Make sure that there are still details in the necklace. Now we come to the part that is quite time-consuming but when we do this properly, we will be rewarded with a gorgeous result. Change in the toolbox the foreground-background colors so white is our foreground color.
Leave the opacity on 100, and make the size around 120. Zoom in by holding the ctrl key and turning the mouse wheel away from you. When we have gone too far, we can go to edit and click undo. This can also be done with the shortcut Ctrl Z. Pencil Sketch easy works best when we make multiple short strokes, so when we have to undo it, we can do this in little steps.
When we press the space bar, the paintbrush changes into the move tool and we can, by moving the mouse without clicking, move the image. Then let go of the space bar and we have the paintbrush again. Just rolling the mouse wheel, makes the image move up or down. With the bracket keys, we can change the size of the brush.
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For some areas, like here by the hair, and also for the face, we can reduce the opacity to around 75. In this way, we paint most of the gray areas white. To finish of, we are going to paint some white spots in the eyes. Reduce the size of the brush with the left bracket key and paint white in the eye around the pupil and make a high light by clicking and or stroking.
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