Drawing like a human - example 2

Here I show you the last "Real Pencil" example for a while. Can you see like the delicate strokes follow the photo structure? It's one of the more important features of this renderer.

As a complete project, this tool uses libraries that even I took hundreds of hours to develop. Anyway, it was a worthy effort, because the users feedback is very positive: they say it really can generate "human style" drawings.

I'm already working hard in several other Picture to People sub-projects. If everything keeps going well, there are some surprises coming.

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Drawing like a human - example 1

Here I show you a colorful example of Picture to People "Real Pencil" renderer in action.

This example photo was chosen because it has very clear curves. This way you can see very easily how the drawing trace respect and follow the input geometry locally and globally.

The third image is a zoom-in of a part of the second one. Realize like the drawing is made of a big amount of very small and delicate strokes, just as people are used to make by hand.

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Can a computer draw like a human?

I have been studying and researching about Computer Graphics for more than 15 years. A great part of this time I have spent researching about professional artistic filters and effects.

I was always facinated by the way humans produce art, mainly drawngs and paintings. I have always tried to create math models and algorithms able to make drawings like ones made by human hands.

Now I got closer to my intention. I have created a new model to draw based on photos. Here some of the main reasons that make this algorithm work "like a human":

- the final image is made of thousands of small and delicate strokes (many people are used to draw this way);

- each stroke is carefully chosen (the calculations are made stroke by stroke);

- strokes respect and follow the photo geometry globally (on purpose or not, drawers usually act like that).

Below I show you a simple example. You can easily realize the strokes follow the geometry of the input photo in a similar way many drawers do.

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Vexel drawings from photos: example 8

Here I show you the last example about Picture to People "Art Vexels" section.

I have not shown all possibilities, but I think it's enough. For sure you already realized how configurable this tool is.

Next post will be about a new subject: transforming photos in realistic pencil drawings.

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Vexel drawings from photos: example 7

Yet another vector based drawing made using my artistic vexel renderer to compare with the previous ones.

If you have a look at all examples I published, you can see each one has particular features.

Have a try by yourself in Picture to People site, at the "Art Vexels" menu item.

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Vexel drawings from photos: example 6

Here you see the next output from the "artistic vexel drawings" series.

It's not so funny always use the same input photo, but it's interesting to compare how the results can be different depending on how you configure the renderer.

I hope you are already convinced this tool is flexible, but anyway I wanna show some examples yet.

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Vexel drawings from photos: example 5

Yet another vector based drawing made using Picture to People artistic vexel renderer.

Once more, I try to show you how this renderer can generate a large variety of nice and unusual images starting from photos.

This tool is already online in P2P official website. It's the "Art Vexels" item at left side main menu.

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Vexel drawings from photos: example 4

Now I show you a forth example of Picture to People artistic vexel drawings.

As always, the input was the same photo. For each new example, I try to show a result with nice differences compared to the last one.

This tool has so many configuration options that its use is not obvious.

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Vexel drawings from photos: example 3

Here you see one more result from Picture to People artistic vexel renderer.

As promised, I have used the same input image. The original photo can be seen two posts below.

As you can see, my vexel drawing library has a good level of configuration, so user can get different stylistic pieces of art from photos.

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Vexel drawings from photos: example 2

As promised, for a while I will publish here several vexel drawing examples made using my vexel libraries. So you will be able to have a good idea about the power of a parameterized vexel renderer.

To favor a comparative viewing, I will use always the same input photo. Emphasis is about artistic and innovative outputs. Keep in mind that some results can be not so good for some kinds of images and very useful for other ones.

Below you can see the second vexel based result. The original image is showed in the previous post.

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