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Style and abstraction in portrait sketching

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We use a data-driven approach to study both style and abstraction in sketching of a human face. We gather and analyze data from a number of artists as they sketch a human face from a reference photograph. To achieve different levels of abstraction in the sketches, decreasing time limits were imposed -- from four and a half minutes to fifteen seconds. We analyzed the data at two levels: strokes and geometric shape. In each, we create a model that captures both the style of the different artists and the process of abstraction. These models are then used for a portrait sketch synthesis application. Starting from a novel face photograph, we can synthesize a sketch in the various artistic styles and in different levels of abstraction.

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            ACM Transactions on Graphics  Volume 32, Issue 4
            July 2013
            1215 pages
            ISSN:0730-0301
            EISSN:1557-7368
            DOI:10.1145/2461912
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