MotionShine01 / Grey
Colour out
The photo becomes shades of grey.
Free tool
Photo to sketch, pencil on paper.
Drop a photo and it turns into a pencil drawing in a moment. Choose pencil, charcoal, coloured pencil or ink outlines, set how fine the lines are and how dark, and add a warm paper tint. It uses the classic sketch method rather than AI, so faces stay faces and nothing is invented. Drag the line on the picture to compare.
PhotoSketch
Photos with good light and a plain background give the cleanest sketches. Very dark photos come out faint: raise the darkness.
The sketch is drawn in your browser. Your photo is never uploaded.
How it works
The classic sketch trick, no AI.
02 / Negative
Blurred and inverted
A soft negative of the grey photo is laid on top with a colour dodge blend.
03 / Lines
Only edges remain
Flat areas cancel out to white and edges stay dark, which looks like pencil strokes.
Questions
Good to know.
Does it use AI?
No. It uses a blend of the photo with a blurred negative of itself, a method people have used in photo editors for years. It is quick, and it never adds things that were not in the photo.
Which style suits which photo?
Pencil suits portraits and pets. Charcoal gives bold, smudgy shading for dramatic light. Coloured pencil keeps the photo's colours under the lines, and ink outline suits buildings, products and line art.
How big is the download?
The sketch is drawn at the photo's own size, up to 4,000 pixels on the long side, which is plenty for a print.
Can I make a cartoon instead?
Not here. This page makes drawings, not cartoons. For flat colours and outlines as a vector file, try image to SVG.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. Everything happens in this tab.