In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to turn your photo into a pencil drawing.

Let’s jump right in.

Just load your image into Photoshop and follow these easy steps.

Cover pencil drawing of an artist holding paint brush

It’s easier than it looks and only takes a few minutes in Photoshop.

Step 1 Convert to Smart Object

Step 2 Shadows Highlights

Step 4 Adjust the sliders

Step 5 Convert to black and white

Step 6 Adjust the sliders

Step 7 Duplicate the Background layer

Step 8 Invert the image

Step 9 Change Blending mode to color dodge

Step 10 Gaussian Blur

Step 11 Adjust the Radius slider

Step 12 Levels adjustment

Step 13 Clip Levels to layer copy

Step 14 Adjust the sliders