Richard's sketchy pencil technique

By now, you have probably learned all you need to know about creating non-photoreal artistic compositions using SketchUp and GIMP. All the skills are contained in the Dennis Technique you've just mastered. However, let's look at a pencil-only method that takes these techniques still a little further. This method relies just as little on artistic judgment and skill, because most of the pencil look is created automatically. It's developed from a technique that we named the Richard Method because of Richard Jeffrey who first proposed it on the original SketchUp forum during the Dennis thread. Here is Richard's wonderful pencil image:

Setting up the Pencil Sketch Technique in SketchUp

To prepare for the Pencil Sketch Technique, you have to create scenes and styles in SketchUp corresponding to the following images. They can be based on any black-and-white sketchy line style from the Styles pallet.

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