Night City: Oil and Pencil

Oil is an expressive material but it does not always convey small details. To show items on an oil painting, you can combine an image processed in AKVIS OilPaint with a drawing created in AKVIS Sketch. As a result, you will obtain a harmonious combination of the oil broad brush strokes and thin pencil lines.

• Step 1. Open the image in a graphic editor, for example, in AliveColors. This photo of night London contains a lot of small details.
  
  Original Image
• Step 2. Duplicate the original picture twice. Rename the top layer in "Strokes" and the bottom one in "Oil".
  
  Layers
• Step 3. For the "Oil" layer, call the AKVIS OilPaint plugin: Effects -> AKVIS -> OilPaint.

  The plugin's window opens with the loaded image. Using the tool draw the guiding lines along which oil strokes will be applied.

  
  AKVIS OilPaint

  Process the image with one of the built-in presets or adjust the parameters to your liking, then click to apply the result and return to the image editor.

  The oil painting looks very good, but small details are missing: the clock on the tower looks like a yellow circle, and the buildings lost some architectural elements.

  
  Oil Painting
• Step 4. In the Layers panel, switch to the "Strokes" layer and call the AKVIS Sketch plugin (Effects -> AKVIS -> Sketch). Adjust the photo-to-sketch conversion settings, run image processing with , and apply the result .
  
  AKVIS Sketch
• Step 5. Change the blend mode of the layer processed in AKVIS Sketch to Multiply and reduce its opacity to 80%.

  After applying the pencil strokes, the contours in the image become clearer, you can even see time on the clock!

  
  Painting
  (click to view a larger version)

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