Sketch Converter
Turn a photo into a drawing in five styles: pen and ink, colored pencil, charcoal, comic or watercolor.
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Turn a photo into a drawing in five styles: pen and ink, colored pencil, charcoal, comic or watercolor.
or browse filesdrop an image here or paste
This sketch converter redraws a photo in the medium you pick, and each style button already shows your own picture in that medium, so you can see the choice before you make it. Ink is a pen drawing: clean contour lines and hand hatching that crosses itself in the shadows. Colored pencil lays the photo's colors down in diagonal strokes. Charcoal is heavy and soft, with smudged darks. Comic gives flat color, bold ink lines and halftone dots. Watercolor turns the picture into loose washes that bleed past their edges. Every style has two sliders of its own, and the paper texture can be switched off for a clean white background.
What makes a drawing look drawn is the material. Pencil and charcoal only catch the raised grain of the paper, so a light stroke comes out broken and a heavy one fills in - that is how the colored pencil and charcoal styles are built, which is why the paper shows through them. Watercolor pigment is transparent, so the colors here are laid over the paper rather than painted on top of it: highlights stay bare paper, and pigment pools darker where one wash meets the next. For the classic grey graphite sketch with shading, use the pencil sketch tool; for outlines only, line drawing; for a full comic page look with presets, the comic effect.
The drawing is made from the original photo at its full resolution, not from the preview, so a print of it holds up. Download PNG, JPG or WebP; a JPG photo comes back as JPG unless you pick another format. A cut-out PNG keeps its transparency. You can copy the result to the clipboard, share it from a phone, and rename the file before saving. Large photos take a few seconds to draw at full size - the page stays responsive while it works.
Portraits are what most people turn into drawings, and a portrait is exactly the kind of photo you do not want to hand to a server. Nothing is uploaded here: the photo is read, drawn and saved in your browser, and it is gone when you close the tab.
Colored pencil and watercolor keep the skin tones and are the gentlest on a face. Ink and charcoal are more dramatic and work best on a photo with strong light and shadow. Comic suits a clear subject against a simple background.
That is hatching, the way a pen artist draws a shadow: one set of parallel strokes for a mid tone, a crossing set for a darker one and a third for the deepest shadow. The Hatching slider sets how much of the picture gets it; at zero only the contour lines remain.
Wash sets how broad the areas of color are - higher is looser and more painterly. Bleed sets how far the color runs past its edges, the way wet paint spreads into the paper.
Yes. Switch off Paper texture and the drawing sits on plain white, which is cleaner for printing on your own paper or for placing the drawing on a design.
No. The photo, the drawing and the downloaded file all stay on your device - there is no account and no upload step.