Turning Photos into Drawings?

[Edrof]

Hello all,

I'm publishing a non-fiction book later this year (hopefully) and I need to illustrate it. It's about swords and so I'd like diagrammatic line 'drawings' of each one. What would be the easiest way of going about this?

This is the kind of subject I'll be dealing with:



This is the sort of result I'd like:



I am fairly competent in Gimp and I have tried some blueprint tutorials but none are quite right and they don't work well for the photos that aren't as clean. What would you guys do? All suggestions are happily accepted as I figure that I have about 150 of these to do...eek!

Matt

 

[Edrof]

Thanks for the suggestions and I hadn't thought of those. I'd love to learn this myself so that's the first course of action to try - I just don't have the in-depth knowledge of GIMP to figure it out myself and I need someone to point me in the right direction.

 

[Edrof]

Thanks Coojee