Pen and Ink Portrait From Your Photo

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Ink & Crosshatch

Pen and ink style, in bold black and white

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Digital download $19.99 (your first one is free). Prints from $54.00, on fine-art paper or gallery canvas.

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Your photograph redrawn in black ink on white paper, with every tone built from line alone — crosshatching, layered fine strokes and solid masses of black, never gray shading. The result has the energy of an editorial ink illustration rather than a filter run over a photo.

Faces, hair texture and clothing stay true to the picture you upload, and the place you were stays with you: the same room, the same table, the same background, simplified into line work. The eyes get the most care of anything in the drawing.

Works with

People
Couples
Families

Good for

A portrait that suits a study, an office or a gallery wall
Black-and-white art for a room where color would fight the décor
Groups and couples, kept in the setting the photo was taken in

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