How to create Pencil Drawing effect in Photoshop

         Pencil Drawing Effect


This method might be different for many people and it works better for almost all high quality pictures.
You can easily convert any picture into a pencil drawing, with 9 precise steps.










                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Choose a photo

Step 1: Now Right click the Background Layer and select the Duplicate Layer

Step 2:  Select  Layer->Adjustment layer->Hue/Saturation and  give the value of Saturation as -100

Step 3: Select the Duplicate Layer and press  to invert the image

Step 4: Now Click the Blending mode and choose "Color Dodge" . 

    Now your photo appears white as show below

Step 5: Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur 

   Adjust the radius so that you can get your perfect Pencil sketch drawing .Dont worry if the shades not    proper.We have few more stpes to make it better.

Step 6: Select Adjustment Layer ->Levels 

Step 7: Give input for Shadows around 50 or 60.

  

Step 7: Choose Brush Tool and decrease input value of the Opacity to 40.

Step 8: Now apply Brush (Fore Colour Black) on the parts of photo where you want to give mild shades and darkness.

Step 9:  Erase the spots and noise wherever found

Now we are done with our Pencil Drawing Effect and here are few pencil drawing from my side