One day while surfing the Internet, I discovered a photo processing technique in photo editing software that resulted in pencil like "sketches" from photographs. I really liked the effect and started experimenting on my own. I soon became frustrated that all of the techniques seemed to require high key photographs and I was finding that I could not get the results that I wanted with darker subjects. After playing around with several different techniques to produce these pencil like "sketches" from photographs and tweaking them to suit my purposes, I have discovered a process that I really like and am having wonderful success with. The technique that I use does not limit the subject matter of the photographs to those of high key images.