isn’t done by a real illustrator?

or IndiaInk by FlamingPear could be a way to emulate it... http://www.flamingpear.com/indiaink.html

I’ve seen similar things in Photoshop done by using filters and then converting the colour image to line art, but I don’t remember the process in detail. Play around with a few pix....

go with that india ink filter. i use it here and there. im a fan.

Your best bet is to hire an illustrator that works in that style. If that’s not in the budget I think this Cutline Plug-In from Andromeda is better than Flaming Pear’s.

Try taking your photo. Adjust the contrast to simplify the image. Size the image. Convert to grayscale. Upsample to 1200 dpi. Convert to bitmap> halftone> line> now work with the line number and angle to get the effect you want.

Note: this will not produce the wavy contour lines that must be done by hand, but it will give a similar effect. The end result will be an 1-bit tiff that will print with clean lines. Some experimentation is needed to get the best reults.

This is scratchboard illustration — scratching white out of a dark background. do you have Painter?

I don’t think it’s possible unless you construct a 3D model/template, because the lines are mapped to volumetric surfaces. It also requires discretionary “directioning” of the lines.

Nick, what’s not possible — to do that with photoshop?

http://www.panopticum.com/ps/engraver/engraver.shtml

and here is an example
http://www.panopticum.com/ps/engraver/img/engraver_1.gif

David: of course, anything is possible with Photoshop :-)
But note how in the Richler illustration the lines for the hair look like hair, and on the skin follow the form of his face, whereas in the “Engraver” filter example, the wavy pattern bears only occasional coincidence with the represented form. Where the pseudo-engraving goes across the eye for instance, a real illustrator would have drawn a line along the eyelid, and a circle for the iris. To improve the effect in Photoshop, it would be better to combine using the engraving filter on flat areas, but use Levels for high contrast in areas with linear detail.

Nick, but you can do it with Painter. I’m almost sure this is Mark Summers — a master of scratchboard. See his work:

http://www.richardsolomon.com/#

Michael Halbert does some really nice work. He also has some tutorials on his site, explaining how he gets certain effects, and some photoshop techniques too.
http://www.inkart.com/

Eron

Those tutorials are fascinating, Eron. Thanks for the link.