Pencil Sketch
A classic digital recipe that mimics graphite drawing: invert, blur and blend to keep only the lines and shading. It turns photographs into quick sketches and is a staple of photo-editing filters.
Spot it
- 01Soft graphite shading
- 02Thin pencil outlines
- 03White paper background
Why it happens
A greyscale copy is inverted and blurred, then divided into the original with a color-dodge blend so flat areas turn white and edges remain as soft dark strokes.
Recreate it in Pixio
Image edit prompt“Redraw this image as a graphite pencil sketch on white paper: thin sharp contour lines, soft hatched shading in shadows, smudged tonal gradients, visible paper tooth, mostly white highlights, only grey pencil tones and no color. Keep the original subject and composition.”
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