Image editing guidance: Hereford Bull

[m.knight]

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to edit this picture of a Hereford Bull (I'll be targeting it's head mostly):


To hopefully look somewhat similar to this picture (style-wise):

I played around with the filters but none of them on their own seemed to achieve the kind of look I'm going for, if anyone knows a good way I could go about doing this, I'd be happy to learn.

Thanks in advance!

 

[IamSam]

Not sure if this is the type of effect your going for, but I have used this technique before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K43-_zhQZiM

Here is another version of the technique with a few differences, only they explain how to make it an action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVUua9CzUiM

 

[ALB68]

I don't think you can accomplish that with a filter alone. Your going to have to experiment with different things, There is a thread on here somewhere that discusses a good method to make a sketch from an image. That would be a good starting point.

Edit- Yep, Sam nailed it.

 

[IamSam]

Here's a great tutorial on turning a photo into an ink drawing: http://www.deke.com/content/deke’s-techniques-016-turning-a-photo-ink-drawing

 

[chrisdesign]

I played with the high pass filter and adjustment layers and Topaz Clean filter.
I came up with this.

 

[ALB68]

Owner will now have to purchase an industrial grade curling iron to groom this cow

 

[m.knight]

Hi Guys, Thanks for your suggestions, I tried the tutorial that Sam linked and it helped a lot, here are the results


Sorry for late reply too, very busy on Friday and hungover all weekend .

 

[m.knight]

P.S. I sorted that dodgey bit of blur on the right