Learnings: Photo to sketch, and a variety of "faux art" effect

By zander esteban (that's me)

Photoshop is a very good tool to make fool-proof artistic effects. A variety of tools that are used to be on your art materials drawer can be found in Filter>Filter Gallery. These effects include but are not limited to watercolor, charcoal, colored pencils, and other sketchy sketch effects.

While it will be much nicer if you'd first try creating a real art with real art materials (I've tried the tools listed above, most are not easy to put up with) just for the sake of saying "Well, I tried."

Another very sketchy tool you can use is the art history brush tool. It provides a variety of brush strokes to use. And it's easy to use too as it works just like a normal brush tool.