Hand-drawn style for Architectural renders

[agent_melon]

Hi everybody,

I'm not a complete novice to photoshop but I'm having trouble recreating the effect shown below. I'm looking to turn my architectural renders (done with Vray in 3dsmax) into something that looks hand-drawn, almost. The example shown below is from another student who graduated a couple of years ago. I suspect his workflow was similar - a base 3d render made grayscale and then edited - but how do I recreate those soft gradient changes that make it look like it's a graphite drawing? I'm wary of using one of those pencil-sketch Photoshop actions because they come out naff and don't give the look I'm after.

Any help is much appreciated! :cool2:

 

[IamSam]

Hello and welcome to PSG.

Would it be possible for you to upload your rendering for us practice with?

 

[agent_melon]

Hello and welcome to PSG.

Would it be possible for you to upload your rendering for us practice with?

Thanks for the response, lamSam - much appreciated!

Here's a base render with absolutely no adjustments.

 

[IamSam]

Thanks!

Sorry I have been very busy today. I'm taking a look at it now. Will let you know when I have something.

 

[IamSam]

OK, I made a side by side comparison and made a few slight adjustments. Mainly I added a Black & White adjustment layer, a noise layer, and a slight blur.

It's not perfect but it's a start.


Second variation, basically the same on this time I added a curves adjustment layer:

 

[Argos]

I was trying this aswell but for the window i think he used something like this http://mawgallery.deviantart.com/art/PENCIL-BOX-203131125, and did it himself because is different from the rest of the photo.

 

[agent_melon]

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Thanks, both of you, for your efforts. I had a little go myself, can't quite get it right unfortunately!

 

[fredfish]

What about this sort of effect that I have applied to the horizontal wall above the window - I think it is similar to your original example?



I did this very quickly and crudely to show you - it would be quite time consuming for the whole image.

Cheers

John